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University Daily Kansan, February 16, 1984
KU council to consider grade board
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
A proposal to create a grade appeals board will go to the University Council March 1 to determine whether the KU faculty would support such a proposal, the University Senate Executive Committee decided yesterday.
Earl Nehring, a SenEx member and political science professor, said that if the University Council disapproved of his proposal it would probably be drilled.
JAMES SEAVER, a SenEx member and director of the Western Civilization program, said some faculty members would fight the proposal because it would remove their privilege to change a grade.
Under the appeals proposal, a student would be allowed to appeal to the board only after trying to solve a problem. Then, who had refused to change the grade.
Under current policy, only the instructor may change a grade, unless he has died, has been incapacitated or otherwise terminated. Under harassment or academic misconduct.
The proposed board would have four faculty members and two students who would have the power to change a grade.
The faculty will eventually have the final vote on the proposal as members of the University Senate, which comprises 1,224 faculty members and administrators and 65 Student Senate members.
James Carothers, chairman of SenEx and professor of English, said he had received many questions from colleagues about the appeals board proposal. He said faculty members were worried that many more students might appeal grades if students had access to an appeals board.
But Arno Knapper, SenEx member and professor of business, said, "The number of cases wouldn't concern me. You should have done, there should be recourse for it."
CS wants fewer in upper classes
By GRETCHEN DAY
Staff Reporter
Students would have to meet more stringent prerequisites before taking upper-level computer courses under a plan proposed this week by the department of computer science, a KU administrator said yesterday.
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The plan, which would restrict the number of students eligible for computer science courses beyond CS 210, is awaiting final approval by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences administrator and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"We're trying to guarantee access to courses and quality education for those students who are best prepared," Young said.
BECAUSE OF A large demand, some students were unable to take computer classes that they needed to graduate, he said.
The proposed changes, which have already been approved by the College Committee on Undergraduate Studies
and Advising, would require students to establish eligibility by earning a 2.3 grade point average or better in four course courses and a 2.3 GPA overall before being allowed to enroll in courses above CS 210.
The proposed changes will now go before the College Assembly for a final vote. The College Assembly is the University of College Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The core courses include CS 200 and CS 210, or Math 450. Also included are English 101 and Math 121, or a
English 101 and Math 115 and 116, or Math 113 and 114
Young said that enrollment in those computer science classes beyond CS 210 would be decreased by 25 to 30 percent under the proposed changes.
WILLIAM G. BULGREN, acting chairman of the department of computer science, reported in a report to the Office of Defense that he faced a situation near "crisis proximate."
A student must also maintain elegi-
gacy by making a 5.00 in all KU exam
Because the department is forced to teach classes that are far too large, Bulgren wrote, "education quality is seriously threatened."
The computer science department, which has fewer than 10 full-time faculty members, generates more than 8,000 student credit hours a semester.
tions” because it was not able to meet
in “reasonable way” the large
amount of money.
Bulgen cited a study that reported that at the end of fall 1983, 863 students had completed CS 210. Of that total, 593 have declared computer science majors.
UNDER THE PROPOSED changes in the core requirements, 320 students, or 60.1 percent of the 885 students, are enrolled in college. The department of computer science.
The proposed plan also recommends that students who have completed the four courses by transfer or advance placement, or who have met the requirements by the end of this semester be automatically eligible.
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Because gambling is legal in New Jersey, industrious entrepreneurs are bilking the masses at nine Atlantic City casinos, several horseracing tracks, various bingo parlors, and through the New Jersey state lottery. The leeches at the helm of this explosive apparatus have made it possible for many uninhibited go-getters to emerge and legally take their fellows to the cleaners.
Thanks to this heralded attempt to stimulate demand, the state of New Jersey will soon open, at a cost of $70,000, its first clinic for compulsive gamblers. (The National Council on Compulsive Gambling estimates there are some 12 million compulsive gamblers in the United States, 375,000 of whom reside in New Jersey.)
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