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Facultv on panel back grade board
Friday morning, March 23, 1984
Staff Reporter
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
Faculty members of the University Council yesterday expressed widespread support for a grade appeal board at the University of Kansas, though a proposal for creating such a board has not been approved.
"I had thought there might be significant faculty opposition, but there certainly doesn't seem to be any on University Council." Carothers said. "It seemed to be getting strong support, but we have colleagues who are very apprehensive."
CAROTHERS SAID some instructors were worried that many students might unnecessarily appeal grades if students had access to an appeals board, while other instructors objected
James Carothers, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said he was appalled.
He said that because of the favorable response, SenEx would probably send a grade appeals proposal to the Council for consideration at its April 5 meeting. Yesterday, the Council considered only the idea of creating a grade appeals board, not a specific proposal.
The proposal for a grade appeals board now before SenEx would create a board of four faculty members and two students that could order a grade change. Under current policy, only an instructor can change a grade, unless he has died, has been incapacitated, or has been found guilty of sexual harassment or academic misconduct.
SOME FEARS OF THE faculty as to the amount of complaints a grade appeals board would cause are apparently unfounded, Carothers said. William Balfour, KU ambudsman, has told SenEx that in the last 1½ years he had
because an appeals board would take away their exclusive right to change grades.
heard only three or four complaints that would need to go before the board described in the proposal.
The proposed appeals board would hear grade complaints only after students had sought grade changes from their course instructors and the chairmen of the department in which the courses were offered. Even then, the board would hear only complaints that came about because instructors did not adhere to the teaching policy that they established at the beginning of the semester.
Charles Kahn, a professor of architecture and urban design and a Council member, said, "It's a very narrow definition of when an appeal can be issued."
ALLAN HANSON, a professor of anthropology and a council member, said, "If we don't accept it, we're saying an instructor can lay out very explicit guidelines at the beginning of the semester and then arbitrarily change them when
assigning a grade. It seems to me that to not accept the policy is strange."
Carothers said he was puzzled by the close vote because few at the meeting spoke in favor of
The council also voted 16-15 to table a proposal that would allow research at KU to remain classified for longer than the one-year limit set by current KU policy.
I would be surprised if anyone who (favored that change would have voted to table it, but we did not hear often or extensively from them." Carothers said.
He said he doubted that the classified research proposal would be approved this semester.
ED MEYEN, acting KU vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, told Council members that the proposal would not free faculty to begin classified government research contracts but would allow them more time to do classified research for private interests.
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Candidates shun Kansas in contest for White House
By MARV SEXTON and CINDY HOLM Staff Reporters
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night reconsidered, and then tabled, a motion that would require student organizations to rethink their funding for the committee would consider financing them.
By KEVIN LOLLAR
Staff Reporter
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Staff Reporter
but neither are the Democratic presidential hopefuls, even though Kansas will hold its Democratic caucuses tomorrow. The local Republican candidates in West Junior High School 2709 Harvard Road
The committee passed the original motion Wednesday after a committee member requested a membership list from the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
So how come Walter Mondale has not bothered to campaign in the state since December?
Probably because he doesn't need Kansas to win the nomination.
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee, asked the committee to reconsider the motion because KU administrators and counselors had concerns about possible violations of the group's rights.
BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Heck, he's FROM Kansas, down in Ottawa. Born there, went to high school there, got caught cheating on a chemistry exam there.
so now he hasn't bothered to campaign in the state?
Well, he had planned to spend Tuesday morning in Topeka, but he canceled out to be in
COMMENT
Gitchrist said he would investigate the legal question further and then report back to the
Washington, D.C., for a Senate vote on prayer in public schools.
Can't fault him for him. He gets paid to vote.
State Sen. Tom Rehorn, D-Kansas City, Kan,
said that Hart had his priorities well in order on that one.
But that's just one day. How come he didn't come before?
Rehorm may well have hit on the answer when he said, "I'm not going to kid anybody. Kansas isn't the hottest state in the nation. I'm not going to impose my ego on him."
Maybe Kansas just isn't important for Democratic presidential candidates. After all, the state has always been staunchly Republican, but it's now a strong blue signage since AFL Landon ran for president in 1936.
AND BESIDES, Kansas only has 44 Democratic delegates, compared with 71 selected in the general election.
Mike Swenson, press secretary for Gov. John Carlin, said, "A state like Kansas that has less say in a nomination or national election has trouble attracting candidates. That's understandable. They're campaigning where the people are."
But Hart is a hometown boy made good, a favorite son.
"A lot has been made of the fact that Kansas is Senator Hart's home state." Swenson said, "but it's also accurate that he hasn't lived here for some time.
"We're proud to claim he grew up here, but Colorado can more realistically claim him as a favorite son."
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The six-man, six-woman Bristol Superior Court jury deliberated for six hours before finding John Corduroi, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, guilty of raping a 22-year old mother of two at Big Dawn Tavern in New Bedford, Mass., on Wednesday.
"The verdicts proved that the criminal justice system can give fair decisions to rape victims," said Darin Gaynor of the Coalition Against Sexist Violence.
FALL, RIVER, Mass. — Two men were found guilty yesterday of aggravated rape for attacking a woman on a barroom pool table while onlookers cheered. Two other defendants were not guilty on all charges.
in March 1985.
Jose Medeiros, 23, and Virgilio
Medeiros, 24, were acquitted. The two
are not related.
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County House Bedford.
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