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^ i i ? / By MARK PLATTE I IdHor Faculty Senate s Scholastic Standards and Petitions Committee suffered a setback May 6 as the senate barely defeated a mandatory class attendance proposal after more than an hour of heated discussion, countless proposed amendments and major disagreement. The amendment was defeated by an unofficial hand vote ci 35-24, taken after t senate Chairman Charles Coolidge was . _ 1.1 _ A _ _1 ! J _ il 1?_ C A. I 1 unaDie 10 aeciae ine proposal s iaie oasea on a voice vote. Committee member Trevor Howard-Hill made the proposal to the senate, describing the new policy under consideration as one "to make the determination of the penalty of any amount largely the decision of the specific instructor." n ml 1 4. ? J : a a 1 * ir ^ i ne aiiieiiuiuem reau, in pari, uiai 11 a faculty member chose to take roll, he or she must apply a grade of "F" to any student missing more than twice the number of scheduled classes per week. It also said faculty members must announce their personal attendance policy at the beginning a of the semester. THE PROPOSAL initially was criticized IbvTed Simpson of the engineering depart Iment. Simpson, also a committee member, said he opposed the amendment because it wouldn't change or solve the problem of having a permanent attendance policy. "When I came here in 1958, I was never told there was going to be a class roll," Simpson said. "To not have some class attendance rule to protect the faculty and f insistently help students is not going to ove us forward." The first "amendment to the amendent" was offered by Jerry Curry of the usic department. Curry asked that the | uai ice: ''It was the || By DON WEATHERBEE of its day " News Editor 44 n fjjfr y ci uoi ck ^ai j || More than 250 years of was proba |?iistory are embedded in the owned." jBremains of the Brown's Albright sa jferry Vessel - making documentatic |fthose waterlogged timbers vessel's c jfthe oldest ever salvaged in pearance, bui vjhe Western Hemisphere. remains To preserve the 48-foot cheologists hi *g)iece of history, which sank the vessel h pMn Georgetown County's which were ? |felack River around 1730, the an(j am l^essel has been placed in a ^65-foot long conservation vat gin a USC laboratory and Remain there, while scie.'i' ?ists chemically treat the , JJvood until the vessel is Strong enough to withstand Eyiyn'S- ^ "*3 I If there is a salvaged ship *"* ' ||n this hemisphere older than the one sitting in a big ^ j$|>ath tub on Wheat Street, ^ ?hen someone is keeping it MP lv~? 1 ?'a deep dark secret," according to Dr. Alan Albright, Brown's ? nncorv.itinn nrnipp) director. !Wtolww3Sik r;j I E" ^ BAR-frC [ 1 L X Served with Slaw & pickles on | i|" With Coupon - ! @9* || Coupon Expires Thi ; Sunday Night at lOp 6-14-81 proposal be changed so that the instructor does not necessarily have to apply the grade penalty of "F" if a student misses too many classes. Peter Sederheri? nf thf? flTMT Honartmont supported Curry and also voiced his objection to the proposal. "When I read this proposal, I was reminded of one of the convict's comments in the movie 'Escape From Alcatraz,' " Sederberg said. "To ? paraphrase, the students will be counting the days in classes, the professors will be nnnritmcf fhn chi/lnnfr I vvtaliving bill/ OVUUC1IU) d 11U 1 J^ll COUU1C U1C Committee on Scholastic Standards and Petitions will be counting the count. This policy would lead to an increased adversarial relationship between professors and students." After Curry's amendment passed, Howard-Hill continued to defend his committee's proposal. He said that when students miss class they miss all the related work. "OUR THEORY was that attendance in class provides something that the student cannot get in any other way," Howard-Hill said. "So if it was not the case, then we could teach by correspondence." Howard-Hill reiterated that faculty members could choose whether to take roll, and said, "We want to have leverage At/Dr KQH C nHortfo'' rnufa oft V* VI MUU OVUUVllbO QI1U i V^IYOI U OlUUUlllO who regularly attend class. The new policy would have changed the existing rule which stipulates that a student must attend 75 percent of all classes. The change would've made it mandatory to attend 86 percent of class meetings. Morris Blachman of the GINT depart 4 a: 1 41 1-1! t_ __ L i mem quesuuueu uie reianunsnip Deiween the university's grading manual and the proposed policy change. According to the manual, grades should be based upon a student's knowledge of the subject matter. storina V tractor-trailer front and center). Albright said. Amateur diver Hamptor go ship which Shuping of Charlestor ibly family- discovered the submerge< vessel in 1976 while diving ir ud mere is no ine tsiacK niver an< ?n picturing the reported the find to USC's original ap- Institute of Archeology am t from studying Anthropology as required bj , project ar- South Carolina law. The lav ave determined for Control of Certaii ad two masts Salvage Operations once set in the provides guidelines fo idships (in the management of submerge* ^Jli ^OITtherIVITVO Problem pregnancy c * Free pregnancy & bin . -r : i i Ferry Vessel i * 1 rainfcJU counselors I Speakers for school l | I "Confidentic II Someone i 254 4368 uperi m I 1614 Two Notch Rd. ery night 1. Ill 10pm W' jmammmmmmmmmmamtma S nmm i 1 T-S ? I - Mieftlj cuitom Prlntl Warm Bun | for Clubs & Pn Transfers and 1 l Special caroll m j , ,I 2767 Rosewood Dr. I I Phone 254 9380 rate PrAi & .-a- .. -.aai:-- . "%. ..^*??*w??a^r^ - ?-* '#^ M ftj,- ::"w m ? ii. * ?3 WpK. 3e&^ B. * ?* > m P5*?*. w v ^fa,. Trevor Howard-Hill addresses faculty mandatory attendance which was defeat* Whether the student attends class or not has nothing to do with mastery of the subject, Blachman said. "I consider that (the proposal) to be a potential infringement on academic freedom. "Learning doesn't occur simply in the context of that classroom," said Blachman, opposing the amendment. 44I think we need to keep that in mind." A rfroninnf fKof o * cti cVt/MiMriH Wr* r&g1 vviiig mat ? oiuu^iu oiiwuiuu 1 uxz graded on attendance alone, chemistry esse/ IT" antiquities instate waters. H| r 1 In 1977 the vessel was H 1 troncnnrfnrl fn o Dinhlnnrl H~; 1 ' I vi uiiopvi vv^vt iv/ a iviv,iuanu F: H j County pond for safekeeping i i and May 12 it was raised I | i again and moved to USC on a I 5 40-foot flatbed truck. H < \ The Institute was awarded H 4 f a $300,000 grant in 1979 to H f help finance the two-year D ! preservation process. The H Brown's Ferry Vessel will \ j r have permanent home in p j j Georgetown s Kice Museum, =s=n ?? e who cares ounseling and services I th control services B Renting fur j ' beers per c . . I PL AN h. civic groups ig & services r ?! Contact With 1 Answering Service I wwim i WIRTS I !; a ill, :r??* TlT* ? ' I j } > ? Lettering n$? ** na Designs 5Mln.from campus ^^.?f 1.. ^ 4:'-4i*^ ??i flj! 1 fc ^ w* H I y.-> J0 w** -^?#>- *4 fip Lr -'JfiBjii^dF'^nSfil Hi ,;v John Parnell/Gamecocfs (" _^ f with his committee's proposal on ^ ?~>? ? a- : j 4 iiin ii jriuiessur nuimer saiu, wneuier a gggi student gets credit for a course or fails and L'. /1 does not get credit should depend on how UlL much he knows about the subject and not fig# whether he is physically present in a certain number of classes." 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