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Faculty Senate to discuss grading UNL faculty members will enjoy more latitude in grading students if the Faculty Senate accepts .the senate Grading Committee' s proposals. These suggestions- will be discussed by the senate when it meets Feb. 1 1 at 4 p.m. in Love Library. Increased teacher power was not an overriding philosophy, Robert Sorensen, associate professor in agronomy, said. "We were aiming at offering more options for students to get an education," he explained. Sorensen, a member of the committee, foresees the proposed withdrawal policy as one vital issue. The committee recommends that the grade of W (withdrawal) be used more often at the discretion of the individual instructor. Grades of incomplete are given improperly on a wide scale, Sorensen said. Rather than enforce the use of incompletes, . the committee offers students and teachers another option. In the proposal, if students wish to drop a class late in the semester, all they would require is permission from the instructor. "If a student obtained a W, he would forfeit his tuition for the course and the W would become a permanent part of his transcript," the committee report slated. Another committee member, Robert Raymond, chairman of the Accounting Department, continued. "I hope the W grade will help instructors in a tough spot," he said. If the instructor doesn't want to flunk a student who has not earned an incomplete grade, Raymond explained, he could use withdrawal-W. The Senate Grading Committee report was written from the results of questionnaires sent to the entire faculty. Another proposal the committee considers important is the bankrupt semester plan, he said. This would allow a student to erase one or two entire semesters of class work from degree consideration or grade point average. "Many student don't realize," Raymond cautioned, "that these semesters would remain on their record and transcript." When graduate schools and employers receive these student transcripts they may recompute their own grade point average, he warned, and there is nothing UNL can do. The same holds true when a student retakes a single course, Raymond added. Although the grade is not figured in computation of grade point average, it remains on the student's transcript. Jim Macomber, a ASUN senator who worked on the bankruptcy proposal, said the main advantage to the Dlan would be ease for the student. Now if students want to retake a number" of courses, they must file forms for each class and talk to every individual instructor. "This wraps it all into one neat package," Macomber explained, "because the student only needs to apply through one person-the registrar." - NOW SHOWING! - DOUBLE FEATURE RATED X "BROTHER & SISTER" Plus "ADVENTURES OF AGENT 089" Also Rated X HURRYI ENDS THUR. No One Under 18 EMBASSY 1730 0 St. The Treatment of Women in the Movies NINOTCHKA Directed by Ernst Lubitsch StarringGreta Garbo & Melvyn Douglas 110 minutes plus 1939 USA A STUDY IN CHOREO GRAPHY FOR CAMERA by Maya Deren Friday & Saturday February 7 & 8 screenings at 3, 7 & 9 p.m. admission $1.25 Sheldon Art Gallery, 1 2th & 'FT St Sheldon Art Gallery 12th & R St. Documentary Films BLACK FANTASY Produced and Directed by Lionel Rogosin 1372 78 minutes USA plus HARLEM REHAISSAHCE: THE BLACK POETS Produced by CES 20 minutes 1970 USA Screenings today at 3, 7, and 9 p.m. Admission $1.25, v.. va v. v.. w. . v. v.. ..v. v.. w. v.v '.v.. :.. vx . . x '&. !. m. :. '. vx. vx. mi Wi v nn JL east "";""!"'! n 'jVj rm n n vA .: t?4 I -' i mlMf;?, ,r A " H' -sk vV4, iJt W, f K4 I Sharing a pair of can be fun, though it can cause problems stepping, I 5 r ;J stooping. So, if you're the type who likes a pair of tgajQ all for yourself, your place is at King of Jeans. y A VA You see, King of Jeans has just enough to go around-- just enough so WAX ufr'Ml . 4 -f you can get the type of ;v V::-l Jt jean vou want, in the color fA .C'L' v ; you like, in the size you So, whether you need one jean for two, or two vX f "i' .".V " 'x,rA ;V(4 or one come to 'n9 Jeans -- the store with justg 7 .jrvi enough CSf for yu- ' r : 4 ' : KIFffi OF JEIII I t iy. Under Doughs 3 at 13th & F "The Home of Levis V.JT- A- - l -r-.- . ' . 'i:.. -T. . j: . . ... ... . . . .... VA VA VV V' , VA VAVA W. VA V.'. . 'A'.. W. '.V,, V. ., VA v. -i, ., v., v,. . V.V W. ,, '.J i V '. W, ' '. ". W, '? '. "A V . !. . VA "'A VA -.K', W r r trirt rat " e www www thursday, february 6, 1975 daily nebraskan page 7