Grading changes raise all-University average
by STEVE STRASSER
Nebraska Staff Writer
Two grading procedure
changes implemented in the
19CJJ spring semester has pro
duced "beneficial results," ac
cording to President Joseph
Soshnik.
One change permitted plus
grades such as B plus, C plus,
e jc. The other allowed students
to retake courses in which they
earned a grade less than C.
"The percentage of un
dergraduate students in
scholastic trjuble has dropped
from 6.5 per cent in 1968 to 4.8
per cent of the student body at
the close of last semester,"
Soshnik. said in a letter from
the President to NU students'
parents.
Also, ."the number of un
dergraduates suspended for
unsatisfactory scholarship has
been cut in half," the letter
stated.
Lewis Fowles, associate dean
of student academic services,
provided further evidence of
the changes' effects. The all
University undergraduate
grade average was 2.469 in the
1967 fall semester. After the
changes, in the 1968 spring
semester, the average rose to
'Brotherly' love helps
escapee return home
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE)
Fraternity had an unusual
house guest last week a 24-year-old
escapee from the Col
orado State Hospital in
Pueblo.
However, the man was taken
into custody by Lincoln police
after fraternity members
suspected that he had stolen
property from other SAE
chapters across the coun
try. The man, whose name was
not released, arrived in Lincoln
last Sunday and told fraternity
members he was a brother
from another state.
However, the fraternity had
been informed that a man
claiming to be an SAE had
stolen property from the
Wichita State SAE chapter. The
Wichita State chapter provided
a description of the man.
Immediately after his ar
rival, the NU fraternity notified
police who took the escapee
into custody Sunday after
noon. "The funny thing," said Paul
Hrdy of the NU SAE chapter,
"is that the man knew our
secret handshake and the
fraternity history."
Hrdy said he did not know if
the escapee was actually a SAE
member.
Upon investigation of the
case, officers said Ihey found 17
credit and identification cards
on the escapees, reportedly
stolen.
Police said they have learned
that the man escaped Nov. 1.
Since that time he has been
traveling around the western
part of the U.S., posing as a
student while staying at
fraternity houses.
2.710. Last semester's average
was 2.775.
Professor of Education Royce
Knapp chaired the faculty
committee which recommend
ed the changes in 1968. He said
under the straight ABCDF
Driveway
won't cause
auto hazards
The driveway under con
struction east of the library will
not be used as a shortcut by
administration personnel, to
reach their parking lot norr will
it create a traffic hazard for
students going to class, said
Ronald W. Wright, assistant
director of business and
finance.
The new driveway, which
opens on R St., will be blocked
off behind Teacher's College,
he added.
The $5,400 driveway is part of
the Administration's plan for a
pedestrian campus, Wright ex
plained. If all campus through
streets are blocked-off, service
driveways must connect with
bordering streets to ac
comodate delivery, garbage
and fire trucks, he said.
Area 13 parking lot used by
administration personnel' will
be immediately closed if funds
are appropriated by the state
legislature for a new library
addition, said Wright.
The parking lot is the site for
the expanded library, which
will take about 30 months to
construct, he added.
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grading system, implemented
in 1965, as many as 40 per cent
of the students in some schools
were on academic probation.
One of the proposals his
committee considered recom
mending was a change to the
Yale pass-fail honors system of
grading.
But the committee recom
mended the plus system when
"we, couldn't get all-campus
support" for the Yale system.
Before the straight letter
system was implemented in
1965 the University used the
Ktanine. or 9-Doint method.
Professor of Psychology
Frank Dudek, who did research
for Knapp's 1968 committee,
said the straight? letter system
was not as flexible -as the 9
point system. The plus syste
m reinstated this flexibility.
Dudek said scone people
thought the pins system would
lower grading, standards. But
the plus system only "com
municates the relative dif
ferences in grades," he said.
''It doesn't lower oar standards."
New York black faculty members
condemn extradition of Davis
New York (CPS) - The City
University of New York's black
faculty members has passed
unanimously a resolution con.
demning the present attempts
by local and state authorities to
extradite Angela Davis to
California.
Davis faces murder and kid
napping charges in California.
The resolution, which came
out of a two-day conference of
black administrators and
faculty, stated, that the treat
ment accorded Davis was
deplorable and declared
"categorical opposition to her
extradition for crimes she did
not commit."
Telegrams of the resolution
were sent to City University's
Chancellor Albert H. Bowker,
New York City's Mayor John
Lindsay, New York's Governor
Nelson Rockefeller, California's
Governor Ronald Reagan, U.S.
Attorney General John Mitchell
and President Richard Nix
on. Addison Gill, an English
professor- at Bernard M.
Barush College and principal
author of the resolution, told an
audience- of over 200 black
professionals within CUNY that
"no black individual is safe
within a society- which
unleashes pent-up hatred and
fears of the white majority on
its black citizenry. What is
happening to Angela Davis is a
crystal clear example."
The Conference, co-sponsored
by the faculty, group and the
Urban League,, was the first
attempt within, the CUNY
system to bring together black
faculty, administrators and the
clerical staff.
Dr. J. Scott Kennedy, an
associate professor at Brooklyn
College and co-chairman of the
conference- said;, "if we can
come together on i other things
like we're- doing with the
resolution, we may just begin
to determine exactly what our
role is, what our responsibility
is and what' our: direction
should be as: black people
within the City University."
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Folk Singing 10 p.m. Burr
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Ncbraskans. for Peace is
sponsoring an educational
Peace Fair Saturday, in the
Centennial Room of the
Nebraska Union from noon to 6
p.m.
The Fair will' include rock
and folk music; films on war,
ecology, poverty, etc.
All ages are invitTd.
Admission is $1. For more in
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THE NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1970
