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The University Daily
Friday, October 3, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 30 USPS 650-640
Shankel OKs optional plus-minus grading policy
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel approved a new grading policy yesterday that could change the grading process at the University.
The new policy, which allows plus-minus to be used with maxima and minuses to the "event grading system.
The new system divides grade point values into increments of .7 and .3. A student would still
receive 2.0 grade points for a C but also could
receive 1.7 grade points for a C minus 2.3 and for
a C minus 1.7.
Shankel, in a letter to George Worth, chairman of the University Senate executive committee, said that the plus-minus system would begin next month. "We'll be able to do that," he will have the option of adopting the new system.
Students taking classes in a school that uses the plus-minus system will be graded under the new system regardless of whether their school uses it.
Two schools, the School of Architecture and Unique Design and the School of Law, already use a blender for blending.
The School of Law gives only pluses, in increments of 5. Their system seems to work well, according to Lawrence Rose, SenEx member and professor of law.
"Students like the pluses." he said.
"Students like the piuses," he said.
Shankel's letter, read to the University Council at its meeting yesterday, also formally approved the University's new withdrawal policy.
grading system, will be defined by the individual schools.
Each school will decide how to regulate the withdrawal period during its final 10 weeks.
The new policy allows five weeks for students to drop a class without a record of the class placed on their transcripts. The policy in effect this semester allows only four weeks.
After those four weeks, a student now receives a "W" for dropping a class. After the seventh week, a student must petition the University to drop a class.
The new withdrawal policy gives schools the option of following their own priorities in five ways, including their own policies.
The resolution will not take effect, however, until it is approved by the University Council.
In other business, the Council approved the students to reduce the number of student leaves from 128 to 90.
The next scheduled University Council meeting is Nov. 20, but Greg Schnack, student secretary, will be present.
The KU Crew team, silhouetted by the setting sun, practices rowing drills on the Kansas River east of Lawrence. The team practices two hours daily, according to coach Cliff Elliott, in preparation for the coming fall season.
Doctor accepts small-town challenge for 40 years
Staff Reporter
By TRACEE HAMILTON
LINCOLN, Kan.-The child huddled in the shadows, listening to her mother's screaming. She didn't understand much that evening in 1964, but the sound told her something very know. knew. Were she terrified, was terribly afraid.
A man was there trying to calm her mother. She lay sobbing on the couch. The man filled a long needle with clear liquid and poked her head. He gave a few instructions to her grandmother.
"Where are the children?" he asked.
The child, too confused to speak, too frightened to cry, was thankful for the man who had stopped that sound. She crept away and hid.
She grew older, and began to call a name to that man, Doc Herb-Dr. Herbert L. Singer. And, like his many other patients in Lincoln, Kan, her affection and trust for the doctor grew.
Singer is a small-town physician, found today in children's books, Norm Rockwell prints and—in steadily dwindling numbers—little communities like Lincoln.
For 40 years, Sanger has given the western Kansas community the personal care and attention that he thinks only a small-town doctor can.
Songer knows most of his patients—he brought a good many of them into the world. In his 40
"A small-town doctor has more personal contact with his patients," Songer says. "He
"People appreciate you more. In the city, doctors don't know their patients. This is important."
years as a doctor, Songer has delivered 1,200 babies.
The 67-year-old doctor remembers his first baby well.
"The couple lived out of town," he said, "and when their regular doctor moved, he didn't let them."
The couple called Songer, but by the time he reached the house, the baby had been born.
In 1940, when Sunger began his practice in Lincoln, he gave pre-natal, delivery and postpartum care for $25, unless the patient was on welfare. The fee the she was $17.50.
"It's been a few years since I've delivered a
baby. I remember it was about $500." Sanger
"That's not for delivery."
"Of course, I used to take tansels in my office, give the patient care during the day, then gave them back after the shift."
Songer said he sometimes received payment in produce or meat, but not very often.
After he finished a residency in St. Louis, he met a professor and the practice of a relative in Kansas City, Me.
At first, he didn't think twice about the strange visitors. It was not until he heard that the relative had been involved in narcotics that he realized that the visitors were investigators, checking to see whether he intended to follow the family tradition.
"I if I wasn't paid in cash," he said, "then I was usually not paid at all."
"Women came in all the time for abortions, too," he said. "Of course I refused. I guess my predecessor had been picked up some extra money that way."
"People would come in and ask questions, then leave," he recalled.
That was all Songer needed to know about being a city doctor. After six months, he headed west for his hometown.
She was a big girl now: 6. But she still trusted Doctor Herb. When the pain in her ear worsened in the middle of the night, her mother, frantic, called the doctor. He met them at the hospital emergency room, where he could better examine him, dissuaded to the mother, then turned to the child.
"You have to go to the hospital," he told the child softly. "But they'll take good care of you."
Her trust fought her fear, and the battle was written on her face.
'what do you want to be when you grow up?' he asked, touching her flushed hand, still icy from the winter air. His hand was warm and gentle.
"A nurse," she answered, hoping to please him.
Songer worked in Pedroja's drug store as a soda jerk from sixth grade into his college years, saving money for school. He came to the University of Kansas in 1931. He worked on campus, helping to build roads for 30 cents an hour. He tried out for football and made the team, but was forced to quit his sophomore year so he would have more study time.
He had wanted to be a doctor since he could remember. His father was a veterinarian. He used to travel with him to watch him treat animals.
He smiled and nodded his head slowly.
After two and a half years of pre-med classes, Songer was accepted into the KU medical school. He hatched with different friends over his life in various places, but he knew before the end of his final year, the money ran out.
out. A businessman* from his hometown of Lincoln mailed Songer a check for the amount needed to finish school* $145. He was on a time out to make him ripe for a commission in World War II.
...
She needed vaccinations for her first trip to Europe. Songer made time for her, even though he had cut his office hours. She sat in the darkened office that smelled like the clean of a grandmother's kitchen, not the antiseptic of a hospital. He looked at her and smiled.
"Do you know where I was 34 years ago today?" he asked.
"Normandy," he said quickly, and said no more.
She glanced at the calendar: June 6, 1978.
Gen. George S. Patton was visiting a hospital in Sicily when he came upon a soldier sitting on a litter waiting to be treated. He asked the soldier what was wrong.
Songer entered the Army in 1943 as a first lieutenant, and was assigned to North Africa. He joined the 1st Infantry Division before the invasion of Sicily. It was there that he stumbled into
"I guess I just can't take it anymore, sir," he replied.
The hospital director came into the room and questioned Patton. He asked Patton whether he had read the man's medical tags. He was in Limpia, a 103-degree fever and combat exhaustion.
Patton sware at the man and began slapping him with his gloves, according to Songer. The
Prof favors stiff penalties for cheating
By CHICK HOWLAND
See DOCTOR page 5
"Any conviction of dishonesty I think should require the student to be suspended for a minimum of one semester," Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, said last week.
Students caught cheating at the University of Kansas should be punished more severely than they have been in recent years, according to a KU professor.
The sanctions that now may be imposed by the University range from an oral or written warning to expulsion of the student. But the students usually just given an F in the class, Bricker said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that the system for dealing with cheaters was necessary so that students' rights were not violated.
"Some of the problem is that some faculty members are not aware of what the procedures are. Others get frustrated," he said. "It is a hassle."
Professors who think a student has cheated must first report the incident to the dean of the school. A hearing is usually set up at the school where a sanction may be imposed upon the student.
The dean's office hearing meets all legal requirements, Amber said.
The place to stop cheating is in the freshmen classes, Bricker said. But measures to curb the cheating problem should remain in the upper level classes, he said.
If, however, the student or faculty member is not satisfied with the result, he may seek review by the University Judicary. Amber said that students accepted the ruling of the dean's office.
"What worries me is how many of those (cheaters) get into medical school," he said.
Thomas Weiss, chairman of the economics department, agreed that the usual University procedure was to give the student an F in the course and he also thought a stronger penalty was needed.
"We don't think any penalty is too severe," he said. "We usually recommend a harsher outburst."
Of the people he has caught cheating, Weiss said, almost all of them should have been expelled.
Malcolm Burns, assistant professor of economics, recently caught some students cheating in his introductory economics class. Some students were caught and their penalty was
Burns did say, however, that he thought students caught cheating should be dealt with.
"Giving them a zero on the exam is not sufficient punishment," he said.
The ones that cheat are usually failing in the class anyway, he said.
Both Bricker and Burns said that classes were crowded, making cheating difficult to detect.
Weather
It will be mostly sunny today with light winds becoming southwesterly by afternoon, according to the KU Weather Service.
Tonight there will be a few high clouds with which continuum from the southwest (20°S) is visible.
Downtown residents seek neighborhood grocerv
Tomorrow will be warmer with clear skies. The high temperature will be 76. Temperatures should reach the 80s on Sunday.
The low tonight should be 45.
By JENNIFER LISTON
The East Lawrence Neighborhood Association misses the Way-Lo grocery store downtown so much that next month it will approach several regional and local supermarket owners and ask them to consider relocating in downtown Lawrence to be president of the association, said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
The grocery store. 846 New Hampshire St.
closed in early August, a victim of a declining
neighborhood population and increased com-
mercial grocery stores in west and
south Lawrence.
Henley Bailen, 1041 New York St., said she was unhappy that the city was considering new department stores downtown but is not considering a new grocery store.
"I'm disgustified." Bailey said, throwing her hands un.
"All of us in the neighborhood miss the grocery store."
BASE ON A STUDY by Teska Associates, an Evanston, III., consulting firm, the city is investigating adding two downtown full-line mall complexes and a small nillap proposed earlier by a Cleveland developer.
But Bailey said more department stores would not solve the problem.
"We don't need department stores—we need a grocery store." she said.
Bailley used to walk to the Way-Lo store, which was two blocks from her home. but now she must depend on friends and relatives to drive her to the closest grocery store which is a mile away.
Although the Senior Center at Eighth and Vermont streets provides a minibus for elderly residents' shopping trips, Bailey said the bus must be reserved several days in advance.
TAXICABS ARE TOO expensive and the
Jinney, a city and county-count minibus,
charges $150.
Melaniphy said the downtown area could get a smaller store or store a small 24-hour con-
"We wouldn't be satisfied with a small grocery store," Dunhawk said.
"You end up paying more for basic goods," Dunhaupt said.
CONVENIENCE STORES ARE too high quality, most of them are older or elderly, the sales
John Melaniphy, a consultant working with Teska on the downtown town, said that the city probably could not expect to get a major change in food good because the potential market was too small.
Charles Waymire, who managed the store here, said that the grocery store's trading area is located in the west of the city.
Way-Lo was owned by Waymire Inc., an OL-
er-based company that still owns several
companies.
"The number one reason why people trade at any grocery store is still convenience," Waymire said. "There just isn't quite the demand in that area."
Waymire said that the neighborhood's deterioration and declining population cut into his heart.
LAWRENCE MAYOR Ed Carter said that although the city might encourage a grocery store to relocate downtown, the city would not use any local revenue.
Carter said he thought the area could use a small store.
Waymire said that runners of a downtown mall
"If there's enough demand there, somebody will do it," he said.
"It would have happened without the proposed mail," he said.
The Wayne Corp. still has about 10 years left on the building's lease, but Wayne said the company is expecting more.