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Wednesday, April 8, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Juniors, seniors to get juco credit
By PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Juniors and seniors who take classes at junior colleges no longer must submit petitions to the College of Education or receive KU credit for those classes.
The College Assembly passed a motion yesterday that eliminated a rule granting no credit for junior college classes that students take after completing two years, or 64 hours, of work.
Many students submitted petitions to be exempt from this rule in recent years, said Pam Houston, assistant to the dean of the college. Many of those students had been forced to take junior college classes because of class cutbacks caused by the college's financial limitations, she said.
A student's last 30 hours of credit must be earned at KU, as a unit.
In other action, the assembly ordered the committee on undergraduate studies and advising to study the effects of enacating a grading system in the college that would allow professors to give letter grades with pluses and minuses.
Stephen Shawl, professor of physics and astronomy, proposed the motion he said a plus-minus system performs more accurately.
that it allows grades to be more meaningful," Shawl said. "Students get grades that are more fully consisted of the quality of work they have done."
"It is more fair to the student in
The schools of architecture and urban design, education, fine arts, journalism and social welfare currently use a plus-minus grading system.
Shawl's motion ordered the committee on undergraduate studies and advising to report on the plus-minus system to the assembly no later than the first assembly meeting of spring 1988.
Also at the meeting, Robert Lineberry, dean of liberal arts and sciences, told the assembly that the college's problem of enrollment increases was likely to get worse before it improved.
"It itremains a very real possibility that gridlock will occur at some point in the freshman orientation process," he said of the situation this summer.
"The crush of freshmen and sophomores has caused countless problems for the college. It has made us appear to be the farm club of professional schools. There is scarcely any problem of the college that is not exacerbated by over-enrollment."
He said the college needed to avoid becoming the only academic school with open admission in the University.
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Burial ban approved by Senate
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TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate voted against pulling the state out of the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact yesterday but approved a ban on burial of the waste in Kansas.
The Senate defeated 21-18 an amendment that would pull Kansas out of the five-state compact. The proposal was an amendment to a bill prohibiting "below-grade disposal" of the low-level waste.
However, the burial ban itself passed 39-0 and returns to the House for consideration of Senate changes.
Feleciano and Martin pointed to a study performed by a New York consulting firm that was to identify possible locations for the compact's waste dump, which said 75 percent of the suitable locations were in Kansas. Geological Surveys has criticized the study as serious flawed.
“This is the single most important issue the state of Kansas has ever faced.” State Sen. Paul Feleciano, D-Wichita, said during debate. “We need to pull out of this compact. There are other options we can pursue but we must pull out.”
State Sen. Phil Martin, D-Pittsburg, sadd with withdrawal was important to prevent Kansas' being treated unfairly by the terms of the compact.
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