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Motorcycle rally to raise Grades money for Easter Seals
By ALVIN A. REID Staff Reporter
Motorcycle enthusiasts can cover 100 miles of Kansas terrain tomorrow and raise money for charity at the same time by participating in the fourth annual Ride-A-Thon for Easter Seals.
Ride-A-Thon chairman Richard Wright said that all interested riders must be sponsored to compete, and that the minimum pledge total could be no less than $1.
"Because of the cost of processing the pledges, the total pledge must be at least 1c per mile," he said. "Of course, there is no maximum so people can pledge as much as they desire."
Registration will be in the K-Mart parking lot at 31st and Iowa from 10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. At this time all pledge cards and pledge record sheets will be collected. Also all riders must receive a registration number and sign a liability lease. Registration fee is $2.
At 12:45 there is a mandatory meeting that all riders must attend.
"If they wish to take part in this event at all, we need and will meet this," Wright said. "No meeting, we don't."
The Ride-A-Thon will begin promptly at 1 p.m.
The route toes through Lawrence, Perry
Topela, Overbrook and back to Lawrence en
ding at Clinton Lake.
There will be one stop for fuel at the halfway point. Total time for the ride is approximately three hours. All gift certificates will be awarded to the winning riders at Clinton.
Over $1,000 in prizes have been donated by area businessmen, and Wright said that without them the Ride-A-Thon would not be as successful.
"Without the businessmen donating so many great prizes, this event wouldn't be what it is," Wright said. "We've got everything from motorcycle tires to C.B. radios to give away so many riders won't go home empty-handed for their efforts."
The top prize is chrome plating worth $200 donated by Jayhawk Plating of Lawrence.
Interested riders in Lawrence can pick up their pledge patches at Jayhawk打漆, 2137 Ponderosa, or Horizons Honda Harley Davidson, 1811 W. 6th St.
In case of rain an alternate date of May 10 has been scheduled.
No alcoholic beverages will be permitted in the K-Mart parking lot.
of grade changes kept such abuses from occurring frequently.
'Grade changing is not used very much at all. It is going to risk their jobs for just anybody.
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Instead, he said, most athletes' grade changes were the same as other students, except that rather than being initiated by the individual students concerned, these changes were often initiated and encouraged by members of the athletic department.
Professors contacted by athletic department officials about possible grade changes were under pressure to reconsider the grade simply because staff were intervening, according to the source.
Psychology and HDFL professor John Wright told the Kansas City Times of an instance in which an athletic department official called him to consider changing the grade of an athlete who was fuming one of his classes and in danger of becoming inelegible.
Although any student may ask a teacher to change a grade, most do not have the advantage of such University personnel "paving the way" for such a change.
Other Kansan sources cited similar instances of such interference, however minimal, by bibl. [32].
All of those who were willing to discuss athletes' grade changes refused to be identified. They said they would merely stain their own reputations by talking about the problems
Even faculty members who wish to see whether a student's grade on his transcript is actually the grade given the student will probably not be permitted personal access to the student's records, according to Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records.
openly so long as there was no way to establish their claims.
Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and faculty adviser for some KU athletes, said in an interview before the Times' story appeared that he knew of no instance of questionable grade changes for athletes.
"The only grade changes I've ever known of concerning anybody are changes of incomplete to grades," Lewis said. "That happens all the time."
He said these kinds of changes had increased for all students since withdrawal from classes was implemented.
"If any changes are made," Lewis said, "athletes are in the minority. Any of them would be questioned by Gil (Dyck)."
But Banks said this did not happen in practice.
"Dykes doesn't physically see every change-of-guard card," Banks said. "You don't have to justify a change of grade. Just fill out a little card and turn it in to Lewis. People sign it because, I've never had any question about one. Dykes doesn't go through all the grade sheets himself."
Dyck confirmed this and said that four clerks in his office did much of the filing and paperwork. He said the only time he saw students' specific problems were brought to his attention.
Banks also said it would be very difficult for Dykes to justify questioning and checking of Diks.
"The person who evaluates the student's work is the instructor," she said. "If Glyd Dijk took investigating every grade change, an instructor could yell that it was a violation of his academic freedom. There would have to be extremely firm evidence."
Dyck said his office had no way of knowing whether a grade recorded by a professor was appropriate.
"We are responsible for recording grades submitted by a professor when he turns in his grade sheet," he said. "We have no right to decide if a student deserves a grade or not. If the submission any additional grade that is approved, we take the documentation and make the change.
According to Acting Chancellor Del Shankel, even if the information were available and athletics were found to be receiving questionable evidence, they would be kept them eligible, very little could be done.
"Faculty members are allowed to change grades," he said. "It is an opportunity that has to be taken."
"We have to continue to place some reliance on the integrity of our faculty."
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