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Mondav.Mav6.1974
University Daily Kansan
Intensive English Petition Too Late; Suggested Improvements on Way
The Student Senate petition to the Intensive English Center (IEC) Advisory Committee, asking the committee to "take immediate action to rectify current disaffection with the grading system and classroom facilities," came a little too late.
The petition, submitted by Nasir Ahmad, Lawrence, graduate student, and Cindi Buxton, Alton junior, was approved by the senate last Wednesday.
However, Robert Cobb, chairman of the IEC Advisory Committee, said many of the changes called for in the petition had already been initiated. The committee was working on these problems before it received the petition, Cobb said.
Cobb said that changes in the grading system had already been approved by the committee and sent to the admissions office prior to receiving the petition.
Previously, Intensive English students were required to have a B average in IEC classes before being allowed to take on a full academic program at the University, Cobb said. The changes lower the criteria to a C grade average, he said.
In addition, those students with lower than a C average can take some courses at the University if the student's adviser cannot handle the work load. Cobb said.
More extensive notes describing the student's progress will be included in the student's transcript. Cobb said. This will help him keep track of the work he is in helping the student decide on a schedule.
Cobb said all intensive English classes would be held in Wescue Hall this summer, he added.
was still in doubt. He also said that appropriated forms had been filed with the University Space Committee for different facilities next year.
A curriculum advisory committee has been set up to help locate new material for IEC use, Cobb said. He declined to name the committee, this committee pending their notification.
Bouxton said the petition was intended to show that other people besides IEC students were also involved in the abuse.
Buxton said a task force to examine the situation was in the planning stage. She noted that no Intensive English students were on the senate. Fair representation of IEC students would be a concern of the task force.
Cobb said he appreciated the expression of interest, even though the petition "didn't contain anything we haven't been working on."
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"I'm going to tell the whole group exactly what I think, if I 'm there," he said. "If we want a pussy-footing outfit, that's fine. But I won't approve of it."
The EPPC supported its recommendation by asserting that more time was needed to determine whether objections raised against the policy were valid.
Prolation will be abolished if the assembly adopts the EPPC's recommendation that a minimum grade point average in junior-senior courses be added to the graduation requirements.
The effect of this proposal will be that a student could stay in school forever without graduating as long as he maintained a 2.00 GPA according to Roffs, also a member of the
The EPPC said that dismissal for poor scholarship now meant little more than going through advisory procedures because the students were graduating from Easy Access courses,
Campus . . .
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Two University buildings were finished during the spring semester. The new $3.6 million Watkins Memorial Hospital opened after spring break. The new 60,000 square-foot hospital replaced the small, outdated Watkins hospital.
moves and protested to Chancellor Dykes that the movies were pornographic. The movies were rescheduled to be shown May 7; however, they were again canceled when it was feared that legal problems might arise.
The humanities returned to the heart of the KU campus with the dedication of Wescole Hall April 20. Troubled with financing problems, Wescole Hall was partially paid for by revenue bonds purchased with student fees.
The Kansas Legislature approved appropriations for the planning and construction of a new law building, a computer system, and a library. Vice-Chancellor Del Shankler approved in March a plan to replace the University's present computer with a two-computer system. A committee is now developing a facility and selecting the building's site.
The behavior analysis program, financed by the federal government and run by the University, at Woodland Elementary School, came under fire April 17 when financial irregularities were uncovered in the school's budget. Employees. The Office of the Comptroller is now conducting an audit of the program's records.
John Beinser was elected student body president and Todd Hunter vice-president. A total of 2,344 students voted in the Feb. 15 elections. Beinser and Hunter ran in the Unicamp Coalition, a party that won 49 of the 57 state seats they campaigned for.
KU speakers throughout the year add themselves to a number of problems.
Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., told an overflow crowd of 4,000 in November that President Nixon should be impaired because the American political system "can't stand much more damage" from the Watergate scandal.
Nixon's preoccupation with Watergate had hampered his ability to handle other pressing problems, such as inflation and the energy crisis. McGovern said.
FBI Director Clarence Kelley stressed that Americans must find the balance between safeguarding the security of and protecting the rights of the individual.
Earlier in November, Sen. Edward J. Gurney, R-Fla., told an audience of 1,100 people "to withhold judgement on Watergate until all the facts were known." The American system was working and that the truth would come out in the end.
"This is the genius of our American system, that we can protect both our internal security and our common welfare, yet at the same time allow freedom for the people who serve us and for their personality," Kelley said to the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce banquet in March.
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