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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 7, 1996
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SenEx OKs additions to misconduct rules
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
Class clowns and troublemakers beware: The definition of academic misconduct and what professors can do about it may be expanded.
The Senate Executive Committee yesterday approved recommendations from the academic policies and procedures committee to make several additions to the University's policy on academic misconduct.
The changes included the addition of threats to instructors as academic misconduct. A statement of an instructor's authority to request that a student leave a classroom when he or she is disrupting or obstructing learning is also included. Ignoring such a request could be considered academic misconduct with the changes.
Doug Houston, chairman of the academic policies and procedures committee, said in the committee's report to SenEx that the changes were made to clarify the responsibilities of students and instructors and to clarify and strengthen the authority of the instructor to ensure that the learning environment is not jeopardized.
Grey Montgomery, SenEx member, said that as a student, he had considered the fairness of the changes to other students and was confident that the changes were needed.
"The policy previously didn't address certain issues, and they needed to be clarified," Montgomery said. "I think that in general, the changes will serve to improve the quality of the classroom environment."
Montgomery said that the changes were proposed in response to complaints issued by faculty members. For example, the addition of threats as academic misconduct came after a faculty member received threats from a student who had received a poor grade.
Redefining academic misconduct
The Senate Executive Committee yesterday approved changes to the rules and regulations dealing with academic misconduct. The major changes to the code were:
Addition of threats as academic misconduct and addition of the sanction of suspension from a specific course to relieve such threats.
Inclusion of language regarding tampering with grades, unauthorized use of approvals and forgery.
Expansion of instructor authority to assign an F for a course because of academic misconduct. Now, only individual assignments can be graded as a failure.
- Addition of an explicit statement of the instructor's authority to request that students leave a classroom when he or she is disrupting or obstructing learning.
- Addition to require departments and schools to send academic misconduct findings to the Office of Academic Affairs to keep a University wide record system.
The proposed changes now will be presented to University Council on March 7. Pending approval from University Council, the proposal will be sent to University Senate and then to Chancellor Robert Hemenway for consideration.
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Modern dance leaps to Lied Center
Acclaimed dancer holds auditions for coming show
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
Choreographer Mary Anthony demonstrates a modern dance movement to students auditioning for the KU Dance Company's rendition of Threnody. The dance will be performed Anil, 25, and 26 at the Liet Center.
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Standing unobtrusively to one side, Mary Anthony carefully watched students go through their warm-up session.
"When you see movement, you see life," Anthony said.
And Anthony knows what it takes to turn a person with raw talent into a world-class dancer. For more than 40 years, Anthony has been a modern dance performer and choreographer.
From Feb. 1 to 16, Anthony is sharing her expertise at the University of Kansas, where she is teaching modern dance techniques classes and working with the KU Dance Company.
Anthony said she first became exposed to modern dance during
Anthony held auditions last week for Threnody, a dance adaptation she created in 1956 from John Millington Synge's play, *Riders to the Sea*. KU Dance Company will perform Threnody April 25 and 26 at the Lied Center.
Muriel Cohan, associate professor of music and dance, said Anthony's interpretation of Syngge's play was special because it enabled people to see the living process between the literary source and the dance. Cohan and her husband, Patrick Suzeau, instructor of music and dance, met while dancing with Anthony's company in New York City.
high school in Newport, Ky. After seeing a live performance by famed dancer Martha Graham, Anthony said she knew her future lay in dance.
"I do what I love to do," she said.
At the rehearsal, students auditioned for seven female and three male parts in the dance. One舞 student, Amanda Burud, Verona, Wis., freshman, said she first heard of Anthony in a dance class video. Although she preferred ballet, Burud hoped for a part in the dance.
"I like to try anything." Burud said
Cohen said modern dance broke from ballet's classical style by using the floor and a style that was more off-center.
Modern dance started around the turn of the century and has been changing and evolving ever since, she said.
"I like to try anything," Burud said.
During the audition, Anthony, 79, demonstrated the visceral aspect of modern dance. Using metaphorical examples from the story, like imitating a sailor's walk, biting knuckles in a gas of surprise and hauling in fishnets, Anthony pressed the
students to imagine themselves dancing in different parts of the story.
Anthony said that she enjoyed teaching students and that she had been surprised at the level of ability the students had demonstrated so far. Students today have few opportunities for exposure to quality dance, and this situation could worsen as the National Endowment for the Arts cuts funding for its dance programs, Anthony said.
"We are a culturally starved nation," she said.
Housing hears coed concerns for Templin
Students want new hall to cater to men, women
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
Templin Hall is slated for renovation into suites from the old residence-hall room style, and many students also want to change it to coed housing.
The general assembly meeting of the Association of University Residence Halls held an open forum on the topic last night. While few students supported keeping Templin an all-male hall after renovation, they disagreed about potential arrangements for coed living.
"It would be good to have the floors either male or female, rather than having the wings be male and female," said Ashleigh Self, Clearwater freshman. "When maintenance comes in to clean the bathrooms, it can make for real problems on coed floors."
Some students expressed concern that not making Templin coed would be unfair to those excluded from the new hall. The purpose of the forum was to hear students' concerns and preferences.
"I think it would be a good idea to make it coed," said Regan Bramblett, Hannibal, Mo., sophomore. "It would make for less controversy in the halls, and I also think it would be best to have the floors separated by sex, because it is better for safety and privacy."
Randy Timm, publication writer for student housing, said another possibility for Templin was a University welcoming center built on the back of the hall.
"This is just a possibility, but it would be much easier for people coming to visit KU." Timm said.
Another proposed change is a 12-month housing contract for students who want to live there year-round. Timm said that the nine-month contract still would be available but that students with 12-month contracts likely would get priority treatment.
Other students asked whether current Templin residents would have first priority in moving back in to the new hall. Timm said the issue had not yet been decided.
Templin now is less than half full, with only 159 residents in a building built for 400. Timm also said that the new room rates were expected to be very close to the current rate charged a single person for a double room.
Rising publication costs force libraries to cut subscriptions
By R. Adam Ward Kansan staff writer
A decrease in the KU libraries' purchasing power means that students may not be able to write their term papers at the last minute.
That's because the time it takes for students to get the periodicals or books they need will increase, said Richard Ring, librarian.
Growing numbers of students are having to rely on the library's ability to locate and borrow important research materials through sources outside the University to get the reference materials they need.
The KU libraries have had to cancel their subscriptions for 799 periodicals for fiscal year 1996, Ring said.
Ring said the cutback in materials the library could purchase was due to inflation.
He said that more than $297,000 in magazine subscriptions had to be cut, despite the fact that there was no cut in the library budget.
Libraries across the nation are experiencing a similar decline in the number of materials they can purchase, he said.
Richard Givens, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the University had tried to protect libraries from budget cutbacks with money the University had left
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in its budget at the end of the year.
But this year, it is possible that the money that the libraries depend on to offset the rising costs of publications might not be there.
Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice chancellor, said keeping the libraries' acquisition budget from declining had always been a top priority for the University.
Some KU students are worried about the University libraries' dwindling collections.
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