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By MARK PLATTE
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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whether he is physically present in a certain
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only by about 10 votes, the motion to close Hi
discussion, which requires a two-thirds jglj
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