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USC students can skip 25
percent of their classes this
year instead of a 14 percent
limit proposed this summer
by the Faculty Senate's
Scholastic Standards and
Petitions Committee.
The committee suffered a
setback May 6 when the
senate barely defeated the
mandatory class attendance
proposal after more than an
hour of heated discussion,
countless proposed amendments
and major
disagreement.
The proposal was defeated
by an unofficial hand vote of
35-24, taken after senate
Chairman Charles Coolidge
was unable to decide the
proposal's fate based on a
voice vote.
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The amendment read, in
part, that if a faculty
member chose to take roll,
any siuaeni missing more
than twice the number of
scheduled classes per week
would be assigned a grade of
"F". Faculty members also
would be required to announce
their personal attendance
policies at the
beginning of the semester.
THE PROPOSAL initially
was criticized by Ted
Simpson of the engineering
department, simpson, also a
committee member, opposed
the amendment
because, he said, 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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some class attendance rule
to protect the faculty and
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students who miss too many
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supported Curry's objections
to the proposal. "When I
read this proposal, I was
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the policy would not make it
mandatory for faculty
members to take roll. "We
want to have leverage over
bad students" and to reward
students who regularly
attend class, he said.
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between the university's
grading manual and the
proposed policy change.
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grades should be based upon
a student's knowledge of the
subject matter. Mastery of
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on the student's class attendance,
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,"
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