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Faculty on panel back grade board
By JENNY BARKER Staff Renorter
Faculty members of the University Council yesterday expressed widespread support for a grade appeals board at the University of Kansas. The faculty board has in the past drawn fire from instructors.
"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
Association for Outdoor Sports, said he was
surprised by the show of sumo.
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.
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.
Friday morning, March 23, 1984
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 embudshman, 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 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 against students whose circumstances 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."
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 MYEN, 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 flexibility to do classified research for private interests.
Senate committee may ask groups to list members
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 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.
By MARY SEXTON and CINDY HOLM Staff Reporters
Candidates shun Kansas in contet for White Hou
By KEVIN LOLLAR Staff Reporter
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in anymore.
Finance panel says requests may violate civil rights of GLSOK
st nother the Democratic pres hopefuls, even though Kansas will W be Democratic caucuses tomorrow. The governor will live in West J伞 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.
BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Hec FROM Kansas, down in Owatonna. Born went to high school there, got caught chea a chemistry exam there.
So how come he hasn't bothered to can in the state?
Well, he had planned to spend Tu morning in Topeca, but he canceled out it
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Washington, D.C., for a Senate vote on pra-
natic schools.
Rehorm 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."
But that's just one day. How come he d come before it?
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.
AND BESIDES, Kansas only has 44 DIE DECIDElegates, compared with 171 selected candidates.
Maybe Kansas just isn't important Democratic presidential candidates. After the state has always been staunchly Republican, it may be time to take a look. Since all Ail Landon ran for president in 1936,
"A lot has been made of the fact that Kansas Senator Hart's home state," Sewson said, "b' 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."
But Hart is a hometown boy made good, favorite son.
See PRIMARY, p. 5, col. 1
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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
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 found guilty on all charges.
By United Press International
Jose Medeiros, 23, and Virgilio Medeiros, 24, were acquitted. The two are not related.
"The verdicts proved that the criminal justice system can give fair decisions to rape victims," said Darlene Wheeler of the Coalition Against Sexist Violence.
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