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Faculty on panel back grade board
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, although a proposal for creating such a board was not 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."
James Carothers, chairman of the University
senate Executive Committee, said he was
concerned that the committee had not
approved the report.
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.
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.
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 Balfour, KU ambudsman, 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.
Friday morning, March 23, 1984
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 students had failed a course there 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 well what you need to learn. We semester and then arbitrarily change them when
assigning a grade. It seems to me that to not accent the policy is strange."
Carothers said he was puzzled by the close vote because few at the meeting spoke in favor of it.
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, graduate 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 be the primary decision-makers in the committee would consider financing them.
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 contet for White Hou
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee,
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By KEVIN LOLLAR Staff Reporter
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in anymore.
but neither are the Democratic pres-
hopefuls, even though Kansas will be
Democratic causes tomorrow. The
Western School in West Jump
School, 2700 Harvard Road.
So how come Walter Mondale hasn't be to campaign in the state since December Probably because he doesn't need Kai win the nomination.
So how come he hasn't bothered to can in the state?
BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Hee FROM Kansas, down in Ottawa. Born went to high school there, got caught chea a chemistry exam there.
Well, he had planned to spend tu morning in Topeka, but he canceled out it
COMMENT
Washington, D.C. for a Senate vote on pra-
bable schools.
But that's just one day. How come he d come before?
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.
Rehman will well have hit on the answer he said, "I'm not going to kid anybody. Ka isn't the hottest state in the nation. I'm not g to impose my ego on him."
AND BENIDES, Kansas only has 44 De-
crate alleles, compared with 171 selected
Maybe Kansas just isn't important Democratic presidential candidates. After the state has always been staunchly Republican, it would be difficult to say so since all Landon ran for president in 1936.
Mike Swenson, press secretary for Gov. J. Carlin, said, "A state like Kansas that has I say in a nomination or national election I trouble attracting candidates. That's und standable. They're campaigning where people are."
But Hart is a hometown boy made good, favorite son.
"A lot has been made of the fact that Kansas Senator Hart's home state," Swenson said, "b't it's also accurate that he hasn't lived here f some time.
"We're proud to claim he grew up here, b Colorado can more realistically claim him as favorite son."
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The six-man, six-woman Bristol Superior Court jury deliberated for six hours before finding John Cordorei, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, guilty of raping a 22-year-old mother of two alig Haghari in New Bedford, Mass., on March 6, 1983.
FALL RIVER. Mass. — Two men were found guilty yesterday of aggravated rape for attacking a woman on a barroom table pool while onlookers cheered. Two other defendants were not found 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.
Joe Medelos, 23, and Virgilio Medeiro, 24, were acquitted. The two men were acquitted.
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