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The NC s From Page One about someone's experience with drugs and the posibility that a substantial segment of the campus admitted to smoking marijuana was just reaching hi surface. However, Godfrey said there were men in the senate who op posed the change and saw the evils of the system as well as the good and felt the evil outweighed the good. "The president of the student body expressed his opinion before the senate that we should retain the D, and call the F anything you want," Godfrey asaid. He said he did not agree with the system at the time, but felt it-was rather conservative in comparison the changes at other universities. He said some universities caught in the changing mood of the times completely did away with grades. He said hJs objection to the system was that it did not serve the best interest of the student. "You are forcing a professor to give a student i NC many times instead of a D. A student may be glad to get a D in a course he maybe doesn't like," Godfrey said. 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Columbia, S.C. 29208 PREGNANT NEED HELP All Alternatives Offered CONFIDENTIAL 10AM-8 PM 1-800-438;.814 ystem: 4-don't have a withdraws from a class before a specific date. Under the (old system the student would receive a "WS" or "WF" which meant he either withdrew passing or failing. He also said that the system also reduces a students chances. of passing a course from 4 to 3." Besides, he added, "Nobody knows what an NC means." Dr. Perry Ashley was chairman of the Pettitions ano Scholastic Committee of the faculty senate and said of the system, "I don't see that it has been a bad system at all. The faculty has used the system properly, I think, but more study needs to made." Ashley said the rational behind the NC system was that under the old system of suspension if a student As aBrIih S1Oox a How the 810ox rep recorded music accu The BSR 810OX has a sop synchronous motor sp4nnir 7-lb platter for accurate speed (regardless of voltage supply or record load) and all 4)ut -n( wow and flutter ^ nti .sk O may be adju 6. optimum pr cither con1IC< clliptical st yl sit s per'e c tl en groove 'or precise stcre separat vthou destor ti uneveni wear .' disc is ;nt egrat ed int o the r design and a vaniable spee< provided should you want from, and later return to ti speeds 1Ihe tone arm will low as025 gramfs to make finest light - weight high. c cartridges for maximum hc dynamir rang ny strong foelings, o either way.' fell under a certain GPR then he was penalized. He said there was a great deal of talk about forgiveness clauses in a grading system which would forgive freshmen and sophomore years to help a student overcome a bad start. Ashley agreed there was a mood of unrest with the structure after the student riots. He said such feelings on campus goes a long was in explaining a change in the grading system. Ashley said he felt like the old F was an indictment. "The NC," he said, "means no credit for whatever reason. It doesn't label him a failure and is a little more humanitarian toward the student." However, Ashley doesn't agree th ' a D should be a grade a student can get. "A D isn't a h companyua ut.atuw HowtheM10a Ton Visc( codces autc the h!sticated pause control, for ge 9 a heavy with record surface mat protects records during play and cush discs during automati drop Automatic spir Dnexistent uses umbrella-type st 1ing force vvithout outboard b sted f or Stub spindle rotates ~ssure with y. prevent distortion of ior y Stylus setdown cdju so st ylus y st ylus damage if dron cenitered entr y qroove range t audble nevw Ni orcrr qroovec mini Sstrobe wvear St ylus brush w >lat ter stylus bet wcen i control is plays I ock auitomnatic allyseue Stone arm to prevent damage t o st ylus to vary from accidenital ~e normal movement St ylus rack as wear meter records ai use of st ylus use in hour s-r pliand rotects your revord n the system passinlg grade. Scho6ls don't ac cept D's because it is less than satisfactory. You have to repeat it in your major in most eschools so there is a whole philosophy of the D not being a passing grade anyway.". However, Ashley said he could see the other side and the possibility that a student may have trouble getting anything but a D in some course outside his major. USC President William H. Patterson said the real advantage of the system was to the students who were in school at the time. He said many ple who had a bunch of bad gra suddenly found their GPR significantly up when the system was implimented. Besides the basic inequity to the students who came after the grade eti Mhnto ex K HKMt68 __tL abl in pa s and puicwiesca ensembly inany de,-. 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Patterson said his personal estimation on the system is that the old was better because it was more definitive, and the student knew where he stood. However, said he "I don't have any'strong. feelings on the system either way. I wouldn't appoint a committee to study it if I wasn't asked to do so." Many faculty and student members would also like to see us return to- the old system. Dr. Henry Price of the Journalism department was quoted in 1971 as saying he felt the new grading system would strengthen the system. Four years later, he.has changed his mind. He said he feels students may have misused the system at times, and rather than drop a course go ahead and take an NC which they feel means nothing. 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