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Faculty Senate's Scholastic Standards
and Petitions Committee suffered a setback
mujr u OP uic senate uui ciy uvieaieu a
mandatory class attendance proposal after
more than an hour of heated discussion,
countless proposed amendments and major
disagreement.
The amendment w&s defeated by an
unofficial hand vote oi 35-24, taken after q
senate Chairman Charles Coolidge was
unable to decide the proposal's fate based 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."
The amendment read, in part, that if 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
of the semester.
THE PROPOSAL initially was criticized
by Ted Simpson of the engineering department.
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,"
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attendance rule to protect the faculty and
consistently help students is not going to
move us forward."
The first "amendment to the amendment"
was offered by Jerry Curry of the
music department. Curry asked that the
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Ferry Vessel ? making documentation
those waterlogged timbers vessel's or
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the Western Hemisphere. its remains,
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remain there, while scientists
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then someone is keeping it
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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 Sederberg of the GINT department
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auppuiicu v>uiry anu also voicea niS 0Djection
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
counting the students and I presume the
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 ciass 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
over bad students" and reward students
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 department
questioned the relationship between
the university's grading manual and the
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manual, grades should be based upon a
student's knowledge of the subject matter.
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mandatory attendance which was defeat
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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. "I think we need
to keep that in mind."
Agreeing that a' student shouldn't be
graded on attendance alone, chemistry
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Professor Oscar Bonner said, "Whether a
student gets credit for a course or fails and
does not get credit should depend on how
much he knows about the subject and not
whether he is Dhvsicallv Dresent in a certain
number of classes."
Although the senate rejected the proposal
only by about 10 votes, the motion to close
discussion, which requires a two-thirds
majority vote, was unanimously approved.
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