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i "" 1111 * g *?*> *^^^^^^E||^^||m!imiiimhimm!|Zm3^^^E 5 i ?*- v Hmmmiii iammh^i| SSjSlg :<:r v>%^^g4^S Foul weather fans An avid football fan will show u the worst weather, as these ent Carolina-Clemson game. Thouj were necessary, a record crc Carolina 28-9 at Death Valley. lb i?mmmmmmmmmi: p'-^J Mark Alexander?THE GAMECC^ p hours before a game even in Siusiasts did before Saturday's gh rain coats and umbrellas Ewd watched Clemson defeat Mm I? Ihihi j SG, admi; i student e I I ! By RICHARD G. ELLIOTT Gamecock Staff Writer "Students should have a positive influence on teaching," according to William Wesson, vice president of instruction. Wesson strongly favors student evaluations of their professors at Carolina. Student evaluations of professors on a university-wide level is an objective of the Student Government. "SG hopes to set up the framework this year to establish a commission that will conduct and be responsible for faculty evaluations," said Amy Warren, an administrative assistant. Proposed by Senator Mark Pitts, SG would establish sompthincr which will be meaningful to the faculty and acceptable by the student. SG is working on a sound evaluation procedure which will be acceptable to the total university community and which will be utilized and updated on a year-toyear basis. "SG wants to hp flpvihlp anH cooperative with the Faculty Senate and the administration," Warren said. "This is only a proposal. SG is still in the planning stages of the bill." According to Wesson, student evaluations are useful in a number of ways. Evaluations provide in formation and feedback to the individual professor in order to identify his weaknesses and his strengths. This maintains discipline within the department. The department head or dean is HHHHH ; HV91 ? nistration p iraliiaiinvi uiuaumi u able to work out with the instructor his weaknesses. th ur THE TENURE promotion \y< process utilizes the evaluations in d determining the most qualified st; professors. Formal teaching fe evaluations help the individual de professor who seeks tenure. im Also, a student can benefit from cIj the evaluation to some extent for they express the reasons why they its prefer a particular professor. d< Formal evaluations are also useful sa to the administrative level of the pr university in choosing future m candidates who will be instructors Li at USC, Wesson said. sa Currently, there is no overall ev system used in evaluating faculty members in the university. There are several programs in effect, i though, in the English department. I . the School of Law, and the Honors ? Program. c According to Erika Lindemann, S| director of freshman English, T there is a freshman committee JJ which reviews every new teaching a assistant the first two semesters at USC. The teaching assistants are ai rated on classroom performance u J ?:i: 1-: ?- - uiiu cuiiipubiiion markings. 11 is a fairly regimented program in freshman English," Lindemann says. e "a rKMKKUiNtK poll doesn't r really evaluate teaching. b Evaluations don't always show ? how well a teacher teaches but si what the class members expect or what they would like to have," s Lindemann added. L -? - II lan < i Lindemann said she welcomes e evaluation proposal. She said a liversity-wide evaluation system juld be useful for the student to ?ide on the teacher's teaching yle but she is not sure how efctive the evaluations would be in ' sciding how good or how bad an structor really performs in the assroom. Because the School of Law has i own evaluation system, acting *an Harry J. Haynesworth, IV, id he is reluctant to adopt SG's nnnsnl whirli mnu or* mov UI?V(? 1IIUJ vra mwj ilV/l eet the needs of the School of iw, "Our own forms have tisfactorily met our needs in aluating the individual ( See EVALUATION, Page 4 The GAMECOCK is the student ewspaper of the University of South arolina and is published twice weekly on tonday and Thursday during the fall and pring semesters and once weekly on hursday during both summer terms with te exceptions of four times in August and n University of South Carolina holidays nd examination periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock re those of the editors and not those of the , niversitv of South Carolina i The University of South Carolina is an qual opportunity institution. 1 Change of address forms, subscription equests and other correspondence should e sent to The Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, olumbia, S.C., 29208. Subscription rates re >4 per semester and $2 for the summer essions. , , i Third class postage paid at Columbia, .C. ! v ! 1 : - . v ! < H ( . 1 4 H'1 I