University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 22, 197/ 3 Dean says KU halts grade inflation Staff Renorter Bv SUSAN HUME In increased concern over consistency in grading practices has enabled the Chicago Teachers' Hall to grade grade inflation. Rapalh Christina dean of academic affairs, said recently. The national trend of steadily rising grade points was reversed at KU from 1973 to 1975, a study by the Office of Academic Affairs indicated last April. The general University grade point average (GPA) dropped from 2.920 to 2.908 during that period. The averages are based on a scale that awards four points for an A, three for a B and two for a C. A SIMILAR STUDY outlining the GPAs of the individual schools for 1976 is due to be released within a month. Christofferson received a major change in GPAs at the University. The purpose of the study, he said, is to let the students know how their grading policies are. The data will be used in a review. Christofferson said one reason he thought The area is zoned residence-dormitory, and zoning regulations allow a height up to three and one-half stories, or 45 feet. This requirement, according to the planning staff, has been interpreted to mean "whichever comes first." A site plan for a 21-stu apartment building at 13th and Ohio streets will be discussed tonight at the Lawrence City Commission meeting. Commissioners have asked to interpret the city's zoning code to determine how high the building may be. Apartment site plan on commission agenda The site plan proposes a five-story building, including a basement. But the building will be located on the applicant, Design Consortium, Inc., and the city planning staff have asked the commission for an interpretation of the code. The owner, Daniel Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy, brought the suit against the city in the summer of 1975, after the city ordered a house on the land razed. Ling said that he was denied due process in the decision. Today's lifestyles threaten the family unit, Mead says Commissioner Barkley Clark said yesterday that the code gave the builder an alternative. The code, he said, was written to insure that view wasn't obstructed by buildings and that, in this instance, the proposed plan met that criterion. Another complication with the site plan is a lawsuit filed against the city by the owner of the property. By BOB MACKEY Staff Reporter KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Isolation created by contemporary lifestyle. Mobiles is responsible for the breakdown of the family, Margaret Mead, anthropologist and social commentator, told a Kansas City, Mo., audience last week. Mead, 75-year-old curator emeritus of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, spoke last Tuesday at Avila College. Leaning against the podium with her forked walking stick beside her, Mead told about 900 people of the changes that con- cluded to the isolation of the modern family. She said that although the basic family—a father, a mother and one or more children—remains the same, the society in which the children has changed, bringing a sense of isolation. "The educational structure is much more traditional now than in the early 70s," Christofferson said. "Faculty are thinking a lot more about grades and openly trying to make sure that their grading practices are uniform." One change was the growth of the suburbs in the 1950s, she said. Suburbs were filled with people of roughly the same age. Fathers and children to work and work children rode buses several miles to school. Mead said that this situation contributed to a loss of a sense of home. But the 1950s brought a demand for other types of housing for newweds. In the 1940s, children who married lived with their in-laws or on military installations. Both environments provided shared activities, she said. A community includes older people, Mead said. Because today's children aren't exposed to older people, they grow up fearing the aging process and missing the benefit of having models other than their parents to follow. she said. the GPA had dropped was that teaching experiments, popular during the 80s and early 90s, had stabilized and that professors had now "had enough experience with the experiments" to standardize grading techniques. "All they wanted was a door they could lock," Mead said. Mead said that the change in family life began in 1935. Until then, families lived primarily on farms and all members of the family took part in productive activities. Along with the door, the new designs added more sturbling blocks to the development of proper family life. 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Cambridge University Press 32 East 57th Street New York, N.Y. 10022 Mead suggested that during the next 25 years communities could be designed where people live and work together and where schools are located nearby. She also suggested that houses could be built to contain four generations, with manageable living space for older people. Communities could also mix economic groups. "I isn't that people are incapable of thinking that I am just that conditions are nearly impossible. DALE SCANNELL, dean of the School of Education, said that there was some concern within the school over last year's study. He said the study indicated the School of Education had a higher GPA than most other schools at KU. The School of Education's GPA of 3.369 in 1975 was the second highest in the university, following the School of Social Welfare, which had a grade point of 3.437. 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