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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, April 2, 1986
SenEx rejects shortened exam period
By Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
A proposal to shorten the final exam period from eight to six days was flatly rejected by members of the University Senate Executive Committee yesterday.
According to a proposal by the University Senate Calendar Committee, four exams a day would be scheduled for six days instead of the present three exams a day for eight days.
Milton Scott, vice-chairman of SenEx and East St. Louis, Ill., senior, said, "I think it's hard enough to take three exams in one day. And now four?
"We're not going to accomplish anything by squeezing them all in that period."
Scoff said if scheduling conflicts arose due to the proposed exam schedule, it would be more difficult for teachers and students to find alternative times for exams.
The calendar committee sent the proposal to SenEx last month, but SenEx members sent it back to the calendar committee for further explanation.
A letter sent to SenEx by the committee, which met Thursday to discuss and formulate an explanation, said the proposed calendar would add one or two additional academic days to each semester.
This would be valuable, the committee said, to classes that met once a week. One additional class meeting would be the equivalent of a week of instruction.
The calendar committee also said that professors had been moving away from using the scheduled examination times, and that many other universities used a shorter exam schedule.
Sid Shapiro, chairman of SenEx,
said SenEx should inform the University Council of SenEx's rejection of the proposal.
SenEx also approved a motion by Shapiro to keep stop day, which may be changed with University Council approval to "study and review day," on weekdays. Members responded to a future stop day that was scheduled to fall on a Saturday.
Bezaeleal Benjamin, professor of architecture and architectural engineering, said, "It's no good to have it Saturday because faculty
aren't going to be available anyway."
However, a student may be readmitted to a different school in the University.
In other action, SenEx approved a proposal to prevent students from enrolling for one semester if they are dismissed from the University for poor scholarship.
Students would no longer be able to hide under the University's 9Z category for non-degree seeking students. Previously, a student could take classes under the 9Z category and later petition for credit that would go toward a degree.
The new proposal would prevent students in poor academic standing from counting coursework taken in the 92% category toward a degree.
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