Tuesday, November 27, 1973
5
Value of Credit-No Credit Questioned
By NANCY HARPER
By Kansan Staff Reporter
Five and a half years after the credit-no credit option was instituted at the University of Kansas, its validity is being questioned.
certain undesirable consequences may result from exercising the credit-no-credit option, "according to a statement from the University," which is presented on Academic Procedures and Policies.
The statement, which will be included in
that spring 1974 timetable, warns students
that
"Some schools' scholarship committee and honorary societies do not accept this credit. Students must also credit to "C" and no credit to "F" when computing grade point average, or other criteria."
FEW PROBLEMS EXIST for undergraduates transferring to the University of Kansas with credit or no credit hours on their transcript, according to Norma Henley, admissions office credentials evaluator.
Problems do arise, however, for undergraduates transferring to other schools or applying for scholarships or financial aid.
According to the autumn issue of Educational Record magazine, use of credit-no credit is "clearly disadvantageous" to a typical student wishing to institutionalize. The report sites particular problems for these applying for scholarships.
The magazine, published by the American Council on Education, conducted a survey of 468 undergraduate institutions and graduate, law and medical schools. The report said that the greater the proportion of a student's record that was reported in terms of a nonstandard grading system, the higher the difficulty in entering another institution.
Students who apply for admission to law schools rely on Educational Testing Service (ETS) of Princeton, N.J., to send transcripts to law school admissions officers. ETS also administers the admission Test, which is almost universally required for admission to U.S. law schools.
SPECIAL PROBLEMS ARISE for students who apply to medical and law schools with credit-no credit on their undergraduate transcripts.
Senecal said several schools discovered that the ETS policy wasn't consistently
applied. She said that some transcripts sent by ETS shown an "F" for no credit, while other transcripts recorded no credit as a dropped course.
*`APPLIANTS TO KU'S law school can
not credit that credit is not*
*valid.
She said she examined each applicant's transcript carefully when it arrived from ETS. Any "FS" that result from no credit score, she said, aren't computed into the GPA.
Soneal said she didn't know what ETS's policy would be in the future regarding the use of AI.
William Keogh, associate dean of the Stanford University School of Law, said here last week that undergraduate students must complete an online or under non-traditional grading systems.
However, Charles R. Snyder, associate professor of psychology and chairman of the clinical psychology admissions committee, said that undergraduate use of alternative grading wouldn't prevent a student's admission to the graduate
program, as long as other material was available with which to make a decision
"IT IS PREPOSEROUS for us to mrihne students' freedom" he said.
rung upon students' freedom, he said.
Snyder said he believed that credit no-credit gave students the chance to "get out of the ridiculous treadmill of grades."
Most admissions officers questioned by the Kansas advised students against use of the credit-no credit option. Many schools offer this option to those with alternative grades, according to one source.
Senecal suggested that students who have applied to law schools should check the Senecal website for information on students converted to an "F." she said, the student should ask RU's Admissions and Counselor to discuss the changes.
WILLIAM L. KELLY, associate dean of admissions and records, said that during the fall 1973 semester, 1,728 students chose the credit-no credit option. He said that markings resulting from the option were designated on students' transcripts as written words, "credit" or "no credit," and weren't converted to grades.
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Slack Rope Walking Is Student's Specialty
complete coverage for a family than does the low option, plan. Buller, said.
By DONNA ASHER Kanaan Staff Reporter
All enrollment and change forms must be submitted to the Staff Benefits Office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall by Friday. Enrollments and changes made during the special open enrollment will become effective Jan. 1, Buller said.
Reyner, Overland Park junior, says the slack rope is easier to walk than the more familiar tightrope. According to Reyner, a tightrope is actually a stiff wire, and the performer must maintain his balance completely.
Tom Reyner has a circus act that, at the end of his feast, is all his own. He walks a slack rope.
Reyner says the flexibility of the slack rope helps a performer keep his balance.
Buller said eligible employees were those persons who were employed in permanent positions at KU on one-half time status or two full-time status. Buller said should contact her office, Buller said.
Tom Reyner
The tighter the rope is tied the harder it is to walk.
Another difference between the tightrope and the slack rope, according to Reyner, is that the slack rope must be mounted in the middle. Because of the rope's loose tension the performer can't walk very close to the ends.
Why does he do it?
"It gives you good body control and sense of balance, distance and coordination that you might not get from fencing or other sports." Another reason I do it, purely for pleasure. "I love it."
Reyner, a theatre and drama major,
learned his unusual skill from Jack Hill,
a professional actor, at Drury College in
Springfield, Mo.
Reyner says he had accomplished several stunts that he was told he couldn't do.
"You're not supposed to be able to walk it in shoes," he says, studying his sandals.
Reyner can also bend over forward, crouch and kneel on one knee while on the rope. He pivots and balances on one foot with his eyes focused before him.
according to Myrtle L. Buller, director of staff benefits.
"It strengthens your concentration," keyman says. "I guess you can go really far."
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And how far can Reyner walk on his slack rope?
He uses a one-inch hemp rope, ideally he says, it should be a two-inch cotton rope, but he says he doesn't want to make too big an investment.
Well, he says, he will walk a slack rope from Wescoe Hall to Strong Hall if he can find a rope long enough to do it on.
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Buller will the enrollment would be an opportunity for eligible employees to enroll as new members with the state group, to change status from single to family coverage or to change their selection of high or low option coverage.
An employee interested in changing from single to family coverage might be a person whose spouse has been covered by a company health plan but whose employment has been terminated, Buller said. The high option plan provides more
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a week of sharing, films,and discussion with friends from the institute for the study of nonviolence, free schools farmworks, the media, clinics women's and men's groups george mcgovern...
november26 to december1 sponsored by sua and friends
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26- FOCUS: ALTERNATIVES AND COMMUNITY - Wendy Batson and Will Kirkland will rap on the development of new living, working and relational patterns in the 70's.
BIG EIGHT ROOM UNION 7:30 p.m.
BIG EIGHT ROOM, UNION, 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27—FOCUS #1: FARMING AS AN ALTERNATIVE: POSSIBILITIES, PROBLEMS AND POLITICS.
JAYHAWK ROOM, UNION, 7:30 p.m.
FOCUS #2: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA AND ITS HUMANE USES.
COUNCIL ROOM, UNION, 7:30 p.m.
COUNCIL ROOM, UNION, 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28: FOCUS #1—THE IRISH BAT-
TLEFIELD—A slide-tape show by Will Kirkland and Wendy
Batson.
BIG 8 ROOM, UNION, 7:30 p.m.
FOCUS #2: INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES AND OTHER
ALTERNATIVE LIVING PATTERNS—Possibilities, problems
and examples of communities and communes.
PARLORS, UNION, 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29—FOCUS: ALTERNATIVES IN HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE—looking into the local and regional alternatives to HEW: Law Collectives, Free Schools, Legal Aid, Penn House, Consumer Protection Agency, Food Cooperatives, Free Medical Clinics.
UNITED MINISTRIES CENTER. 1204 OREAD 7:30 p.m.
PEOPLEPS CEELEBRATION: THE NEW WORLD IS COMING—Celebrate the possibilities of the new era with PEOPLEPS! ADR 8:30 n.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30: GEORGE McGOVERN SPEAKS
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1: WORKSHOP: OUR SEXUALITY AND THE REALITY OF VIOLENCE - All day workshop (10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) on the problems involved in growing up sexually and dealing with ourselves and others in society. UNITED MINISTRIES CENTER, 1204 OREAD, BEGINS AT 10:00 a.m.
PEOPLEPS POTLUCK: Sharing food is often the best way to share ourselves.
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Will Kirkland and Wendy Batson are Staff Members from the Institute for the study of Nonviolence, Palo Alto, California. The Institute was created in 1965 by Joan Beaer and Ira Sandpiper as an educational tool to meet the growing need for serious study of the ends and means of radical social change. One of the underlying assumptions of the institute is that a person cannot be nonviolent in isolation. A person is nonviolent only if she or he is actively committed to the struggle to build a nonviolent society.
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