University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1984
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Grade-board ballot will list pros, cons
By the Kansan Staff
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday reviewed the arguments for and against creating a sports board at the University of Kansas
The arguments will be included in a mail ballot on the issue, which University Senate members will receive before stop day, May 30. The ballots will be due at the SenEx office, 5 p.m., May 7.
The University Senate comprises all KU faculty and administrators and St. Francis students.
S six arguments in favor of the petition and six against it will be included.
One argument in favor of the proposal came from University Ombudsman William Balfour, who said that the appeals board outlined in the proposal would not be flooded with appeals but would hear only between 20 and 30 calls. Another argument supporting the creation of the board says that the assignment of grades is an instructor's responsibility rather than a right and
that grades should be subject to review when necessary.
One argument against the proposal says that instructors would not be able to effectively appeal a grade change ordered by the board. Another argument states that the assignment of grades is an instructor's right and should not be subject to review by students and faculty members who are not familiar with the courses for which the grades were assigned.
The proposed board would have the authority to order grade changes after an instructor had refused to do so. Now, only an instructor may change a grade, unless he has died, become incapacitated or has been found guilty of academic misconduct or sexual harassment.
Robert B. Waddill/KANSAN
However, the proposed board would hear only complaints that came about because students thought that instructors had failed to adhere to the grading policy they had established at the beginning of the semester.
SenEx also agreed to postpone counting ballots from the election of faculty reappointments. Ballots are due 5 p.m. April 20 but won't be counted until April 24
Troy Rodman, Danville, III. senior and a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, presents Phi Kappa Psi alumnus Dean Nesmith with a stick pin honoring him for 50 years of dedication to the fraternity. Nesmith was honored at a dinner yesterday evening at the Phi Kappa Psi house, 1602 W. 15th St.
Looming finals create stress, counselor says
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Reporter
With final examinators looming, many KU students stay up late each night to study. They realize they don't have enough time to study for all their
Their problems seem to multiply, creating anxiety and depression.
Those two symptoms are the most prevalent problems that he detects in KU students seek help, said Dean Kerkman, a psychologist who has worked in the mental health department at Watkins Hospital for about 24 years.
"Students are more serious now about getting grades and about finding
jobts than they were, say 20 years ago. Students in the state were more involved in physical movements," he said.
Despite the growing pressures to make a grade or find a job, Kerkman said social stigmas still discourage students from seeking a psychologist's help.
"I think the stigma has decreased
himself," he said, "but there probably
will always be one."
"Most of us have a macho instinct in us, and we think it a sign of weakness if we can be independent," he said. "The opposite is true. The ability to recognize weakness and to ask for help shows a sign of good judgment."
KERKMAN SAID SOME people might not seed help because they were an adult.
hear that they had received counseling. But, he said, student proceedings are strictly confidential.
IN ANY POPULATION, he said, 10 to 20 percent of the people will need psychological help at some time. Last year, only about 500 KU students asked for help from the mental health department at Watkins.
He said that about the same percentage of foreign students sought help as American students but that the percentage of graduate students who sought help was higher than undergraduates.
Interpersonal problems, such as relations with the opposite sex or with faculty members, are common causes of distress among students also, he said.
"They're studying in more stressful programs," he said. "They have more money problems, and some are marrying. They contend with that at the same time."
The Watkins Hospital mental health department is staffed by two psychologists, one psychiatrist, one full-time worker and one part-time social worker.
James Strobl, director of Watkins Hospital, said the mental health team was concerned with the well-being of KU students.
"I've come in here at odd hours, and there is always one of these loyal people here with students, whether in the early morning or late afternoon. 'It's not a 40-hour-a-week job to them.'"
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SENIOR RECITAL by Max Cripe at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall
OPERA WORKSHOP at 8 p.m. in the Inge Theatre.
GAY AND LESBIAN SERVICES OF Kansas will elect officers and committee chairpersons from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
MONTHLY KAFFEESTUNDE & annual election officers for the German Club will be at 4 p.m. in 4065 Wescoe Hall.
GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT Colloquium Series presents "Late Quaternary Geology and Environments of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico" by Stephen Hall, professor at North Texas State University, at 4 p.m. in 412 Lindley Hall
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES presents Noners with the Chuck Berg Band from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the courtyard of the Frank R. Burge Union.
TOMORROW
KU AMATEUR RADIO Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Burge Union.
"THE ORIGINALS: WOMEN IN ART" film series will present "Anonymous Was a Woman" and "The Originals; Women In Art" at 7 p.m. at the lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
MARANTHA CHRISTIAN Ministries will meet at 7 p.m. on the third floor of the Frank R. Burge Union.
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DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
KU WORD AND SHIELD will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
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CANTERBURY HOUSE will sponsor an Epsicopal Eucharist at noon in Danforth Chapel.
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