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UNIVERSITY OF NEBR. LIBRARY APR 12 ARCH.'VES llThe r 1 1 Js vLj u Friday, April 12, 1968 1 0 The Doily Nfebraskcn UsJ LI Vol. 91, No. 98 McCarthy opens state campaign 4 J " t - X - ' ' jit J . - ; ' ? 1iir-W it Favors lowering of voting age ' R ,1 I'M I t - - it S--' "'f.-:.;r;;:;1 Til : - udents circula ;e petition reconsider grade scale Eugene Stolzfus, former International Volunteer in Vietnam, addresses students at an informal Hyde Park session. A group of 30 campus leaders has circulated a petition request ing the Chancellor to call a spe cial meeting of the Faculty Sen ate to reconsider an amendment passed by the Senate last Tues day which alters the present grad ing system. Dick Schulze, ASUN president, acting group spokesman, was op timistic that students will be in cluded in an evaluation of the present grading system in an at tempt to remedy the situation which the amendment is directed toward. The amendment provides for the immediate inclusion of "p 1 u s" grades in the current grading sys tem. It is aimed to solve the prob lem existing under the four-point system of the overall grade aver ages of the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes. The present class averages are below the 1965 averages which were based on the nine-point system. The inclusion of plus grades would in ffect place the Univer sity back on the nine-point sys tem. Group objects to action Schulze said the group, which met Wednesday and Thursday nights, objects to the procedural action taken by the Faculty Sen ate in adopting the amendment prior to contacting the student body. He said a petition signed by a minimum of 25 faculty members, holding the rank of associate pro fessor and above, will be pre sented to the Chancellor Friday. The petition states: Whereas, the students are di rectly affected by the grading sys tem and should be consulted before the system is modified or chang ed, and Whereas, the students were not consulted about the recent modification; therefore WE THE UNDERSIGNED, as members of the University Sen ate request the Chancellor to call a special meeting of the Univer sity Senate on Tuesday, April 23, 1968 for the purposes of reconsid ering the recent modifications of the grading system and providing a means for students to be in volved in any evaluation of our present grading system. Purpose to reopen issue Schulze said the purpose of the petition, provided for in the by laws and rules of the Board of Re gents, is to open the issue again for discussion. He said the students would pro pose at that meeting the estab lishment of a long-range study committee, including student rep resentation, to seek remedies to the disproportionate amount of stu dents on scholastic probation at the University. It is this situation which prompted the hasty action by the Faculty Senate Schulze said. Students not contacted In soliciting faculty members support for the petition, Schulze said it was apparently an unin tentional oversight that students were not contacted regarding the amendment. He was optimistic the students and faculty would work in har mony to bring about satisfactory remedies to the problem. Schulze said there were definite available channels open between the faculty and administration to the students which were not used. He listed the Chancellor's Student Academic Freedom Committee, the Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the Facul ty Senate-Student Senate Liaison Committee as means by which the students could have been in formed of the impending amend ment. Faculty may reconsider issue He added the group was ex- iiiunimiamiiiMiiiiiiiMHHiimiiHmiimiMiniiiifliiiiiiiiiMinw ASUN President Dick Schulze announced Thursday he has called a special Student Senate meeting Friday afternoon for 12:30 e in the Nebraska Union to discuss an amendment passed in Tues- day's Faculty Senate meeting. Schulze said the purpose of the meeting is to bring the Sena- i frs up to date on the planned action of a group of student leaders i who oppose the amendment. They met Wednesday and Thursday I fvenings to determine available action open to students. I That amendment which will go into effect immediately would recognize tne average of a student who is above the halfway point U the next highest letter grade. A student with a 97 percent aver- age would receive an A plus, equivalent to 4.5 grade point credits. I A student with a 93 percent average would receive an A, worth 1 4.0 grade point credits. hausting every formal channel of appeal open to students, but thought the Faculty Senate would reconsider the issue. Professor Royce Knapp, who presented the amendment, said Wednesdav the amendment stem med from the findings of a facul ty committee appointed to investi gate the grading situation. The Chancellor initiated the in vestigation after a deans' study revealed that, depending on the college, 35 to 48 percent of the freshmen at the University were on scholastic probation. Problem in grading scale "We found little evidence of cur riculum change or higher stand ards. Therefore we had to con clude that the problem was in the grading scale," Knapp Said. "Evidently the four-point sys tem is being misused here." he continued. "At this University, a 2.0 average is the minimum aver age to stay in good standing, but it is also the exact middle of the grading scale. "The University is the only school in the Eig Eight with a drop out rate of 1,000 students a year," Knapp said. aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiHiiiiiiHimiuiHiniiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimmiiiiiimiiiiiM f Not all dropouts "These kids didn't just flunk out, either. Some dropped out because they didn't think they would b able to graduate," he explained. "The change will decrease the chances for 'C students to go on scholastic probation," he said. "We expect 20 to 25 per cent of the freshmen to be put on schol astic probation, but four or five out of ten is impossible." The amendment passed Faculty Senate by a two-to-one margin. 7T U 'reeszen is preside nt Students have elected Craig Dreeszen, Mike Naeve and Cheryl Adams, all members of the Party for Student Action (PSA), as new ASUN Executives. The three were elected in re sounding victories at Wednesday's General Election which saw only 2,369 students turnout to vote. The Student Academic Freedom document and affiliation with the Rational Student Association were also approved in the election. Election Commissioner Ed Hilz termed the voting turnout 'sparse." The election procedures them selves went pretty much accord ing to plan, although . there were few minor problems," Hilz said. The official results are: President CTaig Dreeszen (PSA) 1568 Dave Shcnka 571 Write-ins 43 First Vice President Hike Naeve (PSA) 1102 Paul Canarsky ,- 399 Ed Wenzl 229 Second Vice President Cheryl Adams (PSA) 1555 Write-ins 104 SAP Document Yes 1304 No 345 NSA Affiliation Yes 1138 No 496 College of Agriculture , (Four Seats) John Wirtn (PSA) 274 Fred Bvesiger (PSA) 272 Kent Boyer (PSA) 261 Jack Adkint 251 Proposed School of Home Eco nomic Advisory Board Constitu tion For 69 Against , jo Amendment to Agriculture Advi sory Board Constitution Yes , ici No 7 College of Arts and Sciences Sen ators (Eight Seats) Mary McClymont (PSA) 261 Carol Madson (PSA) 242 by landslide Ron Pfelffer 232 Diane Theisen (PSA) 212 Dave Landis 202 Mark Schreiber 202 Tom Lonnquist 198 Bill Mobley 193 Margaret Van Cleave (PSA) 188 Bob Zucker (PSA) 1S2 Rick Russell (PSA) 179 Jim Humlicek (PSA) 168 Dick Wegener 163 Joseph Voboril gi Mary Nelson '133 Jeanne Aukins 101 Bernie Siebert i.eg Dan Goodenberger 88 Bill Smitherman 24 Timothy McNaney "'eo Write-ins 20 Arts and Sciences Advisory Board English ' Nancy Griffin 390 Write-ins 32 Languages Mary Lym Nelson ....367 Write-ins 15 Natural Science and Mathematics Don Stenberj 432 Write-ins n Social Sciences and philosophy Kay Bradley 211 Owen Evans 173 Write-ins 17 School of Fine Arts Write-ins 109 School of Journalism Susie Jenkins 398 Write-ins 28 Engineering and Architecture Senators (Four Seats) Jim Sherman ...185 Bill Chaloupka 143 Mark Moseman m Trinidad Balagtas, a Fili pino who is to receive her doctoral degree from the University in June, was awarded the Foreign Student of the Month Award by Peo ple to People, not by the Ne braska International Associ ation as reported in Thurs day's Daily Nebraskn. Glenn Nees 126 Jim Ochsner 119 Tommy Woodruff 96 Del Stork 86 James Wobig 83 Art Denney 77 Write-ins 12 Teachers College Senators (Eight Seati) Sue Thompson 298 Scone Cotner 278 Helen Larsen 273 Chris See man 267 Georgia Glass (PSA) 247 Curt Donaldson (PSA 240 Paula TeigeJcr . . .232 Gary Toebben 227 Mike Nelson 203 Carol Masa ....198 Ron Murdock 150 Ed Wensel 140 Lynn Trimpey 135 Bruce Blanchard 132 Write-ins 19 Teachers (ollege Advisory Boards Elementary Education Paula Telgeler 286 Write-ins 78 Secondary Education Susan Thompson 332 Liz Lueder 247 Pamela Morris 148 Write-ins 23 Special Education Susie Borgens 270 Write-ins 28 Business Administration Senators (Four Seats) Tom Morgan . 116 David Rasmussen 114 Tom Wlese 113 Teena Kodiacek 94 Brian Ridenour (PSA) 92 Gary Rosenbaum 70 Jerry Sieck C3 Steve Fucheser 64 Roger Roemich (PSA) 64 Dave Green 53 Graduate and Professional Senators (Eight Seats) Larry Anderson 112 David Bingham 112 James Donat .....109 Dennis Collins 102 Bruce Cochrane 99 Write-ins 180 1 - y - 0 -