UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 22, 1993
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Changing of the guard
Incoming senators hope to continue current projects
By Brett Riggs Kansan staff writer
A high Student Senate turnover rate and the quickly approaching 1993-94 school year have both new and old Senate leaders striving for a smooth transition.
Forty-five of the 58 senators elected in last week's Senate election will be new faces in the Senate office.
Travis Harrod, off-campus senator elect, was one of the 13 re-elected senators. He said that senator turnover made it difficult to continue certain projects from one year to the next.
"Turnover slows things down," Harrod said. "Each Senate is different from the year before because each one finds new topics to address."
Wright said.
"When you are in a one-year term, you don't have time to move slow."
Lance Wright, student body vice president, said he agreed that it was hard to continue projects.
Harrod said that one key to good transition was to get the new senators involved immediately.
John Shoemaker
"You have to encourage them and tell them how to get the job done." Har-
rod said. "I tell people they can be as big or as small as they want to be."
Brad Garlinghouse, student body president, said that he would talk to John Shoemaker, student body president-elect, and that he planned to emphasize the importance of a good relationship between Senate and the University.
"It is one of the most important things to having a good tenure," Garlinghouse said. "They can be a catalyst or a road block."
Garlinghouse said that he thought his advice would be beneficial to Shoemaker.
"I wish I would have known then everything I do now." Garlinghouse said, referring to the start of term.
Shoemaker said that a talk with Garlinghouse could help him be better prepared for the office.
"I know he will be able to tell me what to do and what not to do or what things he wants to see followed through on," Shoemaker said. "I will ask him, 'What would you do over again, and what would you do differently?'"
Wright said that he hoped that next year's Senate would continue the work that this year's Senate did with Saferide, campus child care and campus transportation.
Saferide received additional funding from Senate this year; Senate passed a restricted fee to raise money for Hilltop Child Development Center; and Senate began studying the prospects of developing a city-wide bus system.
Shoemaker said that he did not foresee any problems with continuing those same goals because of the quality of the returning senators.
"Our coalition had the most re-elected senators," said Shoemaker, who ran on the UNITE coalition. "I think we can cooperate and get Senate going in the right direction."
Proposal to ease appeals
Measure could allow challenging grades beyond instructor
By Dan England Kansan staff writer
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday passed a proposal which could give some students the chance to appeal a grade.
Organizations and Administration, a committee of University Council, proposed the change, which would allow students to appeal, on procedural grounds, grades given by their instructors.
Under the proposal, students could appeal only if their instructors tell them they will grade a certain way and then change that method after the semester has begun, said David Shulenburger, acting vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The proposal would allow students to appeal to the chairperson of their instructors' departments. If the chairperson denies the grade change, they then could go to the dean of the school. If the dean denies the appeal, it would go before the University's judicial board. The dean would then make a decision based on the judicial board's finding.
Students now can appeal their grades only to their instructors. Shuffle
E. P. Johnsen, professor of educational psychology and research, served on the committee. He said the proposal was designed to give students the right to question a professor's grading method.
However, he said it should not be a way for students to appeal a grade simply because they felt their grade should have been higher.
"There are some tenacious students out there," Johnson said. "I've had students send me papers that they have received a higher grade on than the one I gave them one year after the grade was assigned.
*Many students like to appeal a game by saying, 'Tve never had any difficulty.'*
Lynn Nelson, professor of history, said he planned to oppose the proposal in Council, which will be the proposal's next step.
"If an instructor gives a grade to the student that grade should stay," Nelson said.
Nelson said he would like to see the instructor's grade on a student's transcript even if the grade was appealed successfully.
But Dick Tracy, professor of educational psychology and research and head of the Council, said that allowing the grade to remain on the transcript violated a student's right to privacy.
Robert Thompson, Lenexa senior and member of SenEx, said the proposal would give students the rights they deserve.
"I don't think that's right just because a faculty member does not agree with the decision of the board." Tracy said.
"It seems to nee that we should have some kind of process in order to petition for a grade we don't agree with," he said.
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