/ NEWS / WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
Just a little corny
Alex Beck, a freshman from Newton, and Eric Baum, a junior from St. Louis, compete in "Monday Funday Corndog Eating Contest" on Wescoe Beach. Monday was the kickoff of Homecoming Week 2010, put on by the Homecoming Steering Committee. Beck and Baum were two of eight contestants who chowed down five corndogs. Beck finished first, with Baum in a close second. Both claim free T-shirts from the homecoming committee.
Credit or no credit for grad students is the question
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BY ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON amcnaughton@kansan.com
Rosen described students who wanted to learn more about a different field of study as "risk-takers."
When one of Joshua Sestak's research projects began progressing toward pre-clinical testing, he said he wanted a little more background.
"I don't want to discourage them from doing that because of
background. But with his workload and research, Sestak, a graduate student from Philadelphia, said he didn't want to take a class for a grade when the last time he had any practice in that field was 10 years ago.
Yesterday, the University Senate Executive Committee revived proposed amendments to the current policy during its meeting. Members voted to refer the changes to the Academic Policies and Procedures Committee for further consideration.
years ago. That left Sestak in a conundrum. It was problem he isn't alone in facing. All graduate students are restricted from taking classes as credit or no credit.
classes as credit for graduate studies,recognized this dilemma and approached the University Senate Executive Committee about a year ago to suggest including graduate students in the credit or no credit policy.
their lack of experience in a particular field or workload." Rosen said. "I thought that having the option of taking courses credit or no credit would solve that issue."
no credit Ben Eggleston, chairman for SenEx, said it had been difficult to broaden the credit or no credit policy without leaving issues unresolved.
"It turned out that the closer you looked at the current policy, the more things that there were that seemed to need more reconsidering," Eggleston said. "Which is why the new policy looks as different from the current policy as it does."
Molly Mulloy, administrator in the office of university governance, said it appeared that the current policy had not changed substantially in the last 20 years. Amendments were passed in 2000, 2002 and 2006 to add
specificity to the deadlines or to clarify existing practices.
The proposed changes to the policy would be no more restrictive than the old policy. The changes
credit or no credit enrollment option is not available to students in the graduate school."
in the graduate school. Eggleston said the policy would only be altered to say that the University would no longer prohibit this option on the graduate level. Individual schools would be able to determine what their credit or no credit policy would be.
"The new policy just opens the door to graduate students." Eggelston said. "We're trying to open the door approximately as widely for graduate students as it already is for undergraduates."
Eggleston said it would be a long road to approval, but he hoped to have it resolved by May.
May.
Although the policy would not go in play until next year, Sestak said he thought the change would still be important to make.
"I thought that having the option of taking courses credit or no credit would solve that issue."
would include some language rephrasing and adjustments, but Eggleston said the policy would not be "changed."
SARA ROSEN Dean for graduate studies
ODD NEWS
The major revision of the policy would delete the sentence "the
"The more knowledge you can make available is good." Sestak said. "There is this big push for this cross-disciplinary research and I think it is just a hassle right now because
I know other people who have tried to take a class and didn't because they had to take it for a grade."
New pair of jeans, new police charges
GALLATIN, Tenn. — Police say it wasn't too difficult to find a man accused of walking out of a Walmart store wearing stolen jeans. He left his old denim behind — along with his wallet
hind — along with his wallet.
Officers in Gallatin say 20-year-old Dustin Matthew Marshall tried on the jeans and left without paying for them, but employees found his old jeans and wallet in a dressing room.
Marshall was booked into jail on charges of theft, burglary and other counts.
Edited by Emily McCoy
Primate briefly makes chaos in K.C. KANSAS CITY, Mo. A
ment got a call about noon Tuesday that a primate was on the loose a few miles from the Kansas City Zoo.
300-pound chimpanzee that broke free from its chains has been captured after briefly wandering around a Kansas City neighborhood and smashing out the window of a police car.
Lockhart says the ape was actually a pet that escaped from its chains. Lockhart says efforts to shoot the animal, named Sueko,
Police Capt. Rich Lockhart tells The Kansas City Star the depart-
with a tranquilizer dart failed.
The chimp climbed on a patrol car and struck the passenger-side window with its fist before running off.
Associated Press
2010 4th Annual National Team Selling Competition
Altria Sales and Distribution congratulates the University of Kansas School of Business, Professor Kissan Joseph and the KU Team on their 2nd Place Finish at the 2010 Indiana University National Team Selling Competition. Rock Chalk Jayhawk!