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University Daily Kansan, October 28, 1981
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Friday last day to drop without having petition
By MARK ZIEMAN Staff Reporter
Friday is the last day for most students to withdraw from classes without having to file a petition, according to the University withdrawal
After Friday, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and several schools within the University will no longer let students use academic reasons, such as flanking a course, for dropping that course. Teri Carswell, assist to the dean of liberal arts and sciences, said yesterday.
"In other words, you can't be given
in this perioi (ending Friday)"
she said
"Our petition process is very,very strict,and very few people are allowed to drop." she said.
Starting next Monday, a student may drop a course by submitting a petition to the departmental office, but Carwall said she didn't recommend waiting that
IN THE COLLEGE, approval of petitions is granted for a death within the student's family; a physical or mental disability lasting at least two weeks; documented cases of miscarriage; or medical conditions of deblitating stress or unavoidable problems; a course in which no evaluation of student performance was
made available before the end of the 10th week of the semester (Friday); and an enrollment error.
According to University withdrawal policies, students taking courses in architecture, business, journalism, occupational therapy, pharmacy and welfare do not have to file petition if they do not withdraw by Friday.
If a student decided to drop a course after Friday in those schools, his or her instructor would determine whether he or she was passing the course at the time of withdrawal. If the student had a passing grade, a "W" would be recorded; if the teacher treated him or she would be recorded if the student were failing the class, although it would not be figured in his or her grade point average.
The longer a student waited to withdraw in those schools, Carswell said, the greater the chances he or she had of receiving an "F."
AFTER FRIDAY, most graduate school students would also have to file petitions to withdraw from classes. Students in social welfare would use the W/F policy described above, and law students would receive no record of the course on their transcripts if they dropped the course by Dec. 4.
The withdrawal procedure for all attendees is listed on page 259 and the Fall Turnover is listed on page 260.
Workshop to analyze humanities jobs
By MARK ZIEMAN Staff Reporter
A workshop on employment for people with doctorate degrees in humanities fields is scheduled for this weekend at the Kansas Union.
Staff Reporter
The workshop, which is funded by a $27,588 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, will include lectures, panel discussions and work sessions on the continuing relevance of the fields as English, history, foreign languages, classical studies and philosophy.
"There is a real depression in the job market for people with humanities Ph.D.s," Kirsten Nigro,
Nigro, along with Douglas Atkins, professor and coordinator of graduate studies in English, codecrites the workshop.
visiting assistant professor of Spanish, said Friday.
She said that part of the problem stemmed from an overextension of graduate programs in the 1960s and 1970s, leading to the bulge of the baby boom."
NOW, SHE SAID, that boon period has come to an end, resulting in an overabundance of qualified teachers and a shortage of jobs.
The workshop will include counseling, information on curriculum choices and ways holders of humanities doctorates
can prepare for non-academic careers.
"We also want to make people more aware of the situation."
"Although it is a fact, it is one that people are not aware of in its full dimensions.
"The purpose is not to change the economy: that's a fact," she said.
"The problem is what do you do with that fact.
Keynote speakers at the workshop will be Lewis Solmon, executive officer of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles, and Edward S. Jenkins, a graduate program in public historical studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
"Lewis Solmon is the leading
authority now on the job situation for humanities Ph.D.s." Nigro said.
THE WORKSHOP is open to the public as well as to faculty members, graduate advisers, placement personnel and graduate students of the Mid-America State Universities. Students in these regions include Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Iowa State and Kansas State universities.
"A large part of the workshop," Nigro said, "is for people to go back to their own universities and take courses. We've learned here and try to implement it."
For that reason, she said, the participants will return for a follow-up workshop in October 1982 to the impact of this year's session.
Bottlers cheat Soviets out of $2.8 million
By United Press International
MOSCOW—Soviet authorities have uncovered one of their country's biggest scams ever in which enterpriseprising swampers lined 23-cant deposits for empty mineral water bottles into a cool $2.8 million.
menian newspaper Kommunist said in conies leaking here yesterday.
The newspaper reported that two managers of a state bottling company in the Armenian city of Yerevan struck a deal with virtually all local retailers for forged phony receipts for as many as a million empty mineral water bottles.
"The pattern of the scam was as simple as it was audacious," the Ar-
At 23 cents for each empty bottle supposedly returned, the bottlers and
their confederates were able to collect two million kopeks ($2.8 million) in cash from state banks, the newspaper said.
Kommunist said 45 ringleaders of the gang, including the manager and the sales manager of the Ankavan Mineral Bottling Plants, were arrested earlier this week. In a formal totaling 410 years. As many as 15 others were given suspended sentences.
The newspaper said recent audits showed the state was still paying out deposit fees in amounts that "far outstripped" the mineral water that all of Armenia's famous bottling plants could have produced.
"One has to face up to reality," the Communist Party paper said. "There are still people among us out to cheat, to steal from society."
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