University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1982
Page 13
Dean says transcript policy never existed RA grade access plan discussed by board
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
The Residential Programs Advisory Board yesterday discussed misunderstandings about a proposal to grant grants to students access to grades and transcripts
Caryl Smith, dean of student life, stressed that no policy ever existed or was planned to allow resident directors and RAS access to grades.
A policy implemented this semester did inform RAs which freshmen and sophomores were having trouble in math. In no grades were released, Smith said.
AND NEXT semester, resident directors will be notified which freshmen
and sophomores are on academic probation.
RAS have been instructed to approach students in academic trouble and to ask whether they had seen their advisers or were aware of the many resources that exist on campus, such as the student assistance center.
"We have to keep spreading information that there are people, one, who care, and two, who can help." Smith said.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said RAs were told who was having trouble in math and English in an effort to help students and they were put on academic probation.
He said that many students, after being placed on probation, said they did not know they were in trouble and did not know where they could get help.
SMITH SAID the policy was implemented after many meetings and recommendations by the committee for the improvement of undergraduate
*Everybody acts as if this was lightly considered and lightly implemented.*
Fred McElienie, director of the office of residential programs, said the furor over the belief that RAs would have access to transcripts began with an interview with an RA that was placed in an Ewellsorth newspaper.
Both the Student Senate and Association of University Residence Halls passed resolutions requesting that RAs access to students' academic records.
RPAB ALSO discussed alternate
housing plans for the semester break. The residence halls will not be open during Christmas break, but students may stay in the Universityrium Apartments or Jayhawk Towerers.
Students can stay at Jayhawker
Towers a minimum of five days for $15
a day with two to an apartment.
Stadium is charging $90 a week for one
person in an apartment and $145 with
up to four in an apartment. All Seasons
stay accommodations are free for
people, or $15 for one. If a student stays
one week, there is a discount.
MeElbeni said he had not received many complaints about the halls being too crowded.
The board tabled discussion of revising the hall policy on video games revenue until a subcommittee studied the policy.
Bids for Haworth addition to open
Bids will be opened Dec. 14 for an eight-story, $14 million addition to Haworth Hall, constructed in 1925 for the biological sciences.
The addition will contain 100,000 square feet of floor space, as much as the entire area of Dyche Hall.
Alen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said the addition would contain 140 classrooms and laboratories and would help centralize the sciences division. The division is now scattered among eight buildings.
Groundbreaking for the addition may be as soon as January or
February. Wiechert said the addition should be fully operational by the fall of 1985.
The addition will be built on the west end of Haworth and will keep the style of the building with smooth brown bricks, Wieschert said.
Part of the northwest corner of the addition will be cut away, so pedestrians walk east and west will be able to walk through the addition.
"The addition is large." Wiechert said, "and it might have been a barrier to people atfoat. Designing it so
that people could walk freely under part of the building was a stylish and functional solution to the problem."
The addition was designed by Peters, Williams and Kubota of Lawrence.
"There will be some noise, dust and inconvenience during construction, but we hope it won't be bad enough to impact our plans." The original building, "Weichert said.
He said that there were no plans to move classes and research activities to other buildings during construction.
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