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Faculty on panel back grade board
Staff Reporter
Friday morning, March 23, 1984
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
Faculty members of the University Council yesterday expressed widespread support for a grade appeals board at the University of Kansas, which has in the past drawn fire from instructors.
James Carothers, chairman of the University senate Executive Committee, said he was suspicious of the reports.
"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
because an appeals board would take away their exclusive right to change grades.
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.
SOME FEARS OF THE faculty as to the amount of complaints a grade appeals board would cause are apparently unfounded, Carothers said. William Ballour, KU umbdsman, has told SenEx that in the last 1½ years he had
heard only three or four complaints that would need to go before the board described in the 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.
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 complaints against instructors who allegedly failed to adhere to the grading 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."
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.
Carothers heard he was puzzled by the close vote because few at the meeting spoke in favor of him.
"I would be surprised if anyone who favored that change would have voted to table it, but we did not bear 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 contracts but would allow them more flexibility to do classified research for private interests.
Senate committee may ask groups to list members
Finance panel says requests may violate civil rights of GLSOK
By MARY 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 provide the committee a membership list before the vote.
The committee passed the original motion Wednesday after a committee member requested a membership list from the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
Candidates shun Kansas in contest for White Hou
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee,
asked the committee to respond the motion
By KEVIN LOLLAR Staff Reporter
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in anymore.
sut neither are the Democratic pres hopefuls, even though Kansas will w hill democratic caucuses tomorrow. The caucuses will take place in West Junipt 2700 Harvard Road.
So how come Walter Mondale hasn't be in campaign in the state since December
Probably because he doesn't need Kan win the nomination.
BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Hee FROM Kansas, down in Ontawa. Bent went to high school there, got caught cheat a chemistry exam there.
So how come he hasn't bothered to can in the state?
Well, he had planned to spend Tupe in Topeka, but he canceled out it
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public schools.
can't fight him for that. He gets paid to State Sen. Tom Rehorn, D-Kansas City), said that Hart had his priorities well in ord that one.
But that's just one day. How come he d come before?
See PRIMARY, p. 5, col. 1
Maybe Kansas just isn't important Democratic presidential candidates. After the state has always been staunchly Republican, the Democrats have not so far since Alf Landon ran for president in 1936.
Mike Swenson, press secretary for Gov J Carlin, said, "A state like Kansas that has 1 state union or national election 1 trouble attracting candidates. That's und standable. They're campaigning where people are."
"A lot has been made of the fact that Kansas Senator Hark's home state, 'Swenson said,' b" it's also accurate that he hasn't lived here f some time.
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AND BENIDES, Kansas only has 44 Decele delegates, compared with 171 selectors.
"We're proud to claim he grew up here, b Colorado can more realistically claim him as favorite son."
But Hart is a hometown boy made good, favorite son.
the six-man, six-woman Bristol Superior Court jury deliberated for six hours before finding John Corderio, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, guilty of raping a woman in the courtroom of two buildings Dan's Tavern in New Bedford, Mass. on March 6, 1983.
FALL RIVER. Mass. — Two women were found guilty yesterday of aggravated rape for attacking a woman on a barroom pool table while onlookers cheered. Two other defendants were found not guilty on all charges.
By United Press International
"The verdicts proved that the criminal justice system can give fair decisions to rape victims," said Darlene Wheeler of the Coalition Against Sexist Violence.
On March 14, 1860,
Jose Medeiros, 23, and Virgilio
Medeiros, 24, were acquitted. The two
are not related.
CORDEIRO AND RAPOSO sobbed as the jury foreman announced the verdicts. Court officers then led them out of the courtroom to an upstairs meeting room to see their families before taking them to the Bristol
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