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By Deb E cckhnhn
Fees Allocation Board (FAD) members may have to
give up sorae of their winter vacation because of a one
montii dzlzy getting together, said Sherry Cols, FAB
cfc;mcnaa. .
FAD is a conrniitee of admlniarators, faculty and
students. It allocates student fees to campus organizations
and student services.
' Last year, FAD began meeting Sept. 10. Hie first meet
ing this year was net until Oct. 1 4. .
"We wO need that month ia order to catch up on the
time we've already lost," Cole bid. "The setback in opera
tion was inamry due to the negligence of ASUN because
they shouU've approved FAB members last spring. But
instead, members weren't . approved until October."
But according to ASUN President C3 ITueHer, it is not
ASUN 's fault the appointments were approved late.
"Came should be placed on the late recommendations
made by the respective organizations represented on
FAB," Mueller saM.
Cole said the three FAB representatives from, the
Council on Student life (CSL) and one from the Neb
raska Union were appointed last spring, but ASUN did
not approve the appointments until October.
Lateipprovalj
FAB members representing the University Health
Center, the Recreation Dept. and the Publications Board
were not submitted to ASUN for approval until this
semester, "So it wasnl their fault for those late approvals,
but it was for the the others," Cole said. The Publications
Board member will be approved at the next FAB meeting.
"The late ASUN approvals have just added to the con-
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fusion of having only three returning FAB members,
Cole said. "If a drastic change in the budget would Ve
come up during the summer, I wouldn't have been able to
get any members of FAB to meet because none of us were
approved.
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"If ASUN doea follow through with their approval
procedures, it will set back any organization. Last year
ASUN and FAB worked closely together and that helped
both operations. I think this neglect has hurt their credi
bility this year, not ours," she said.
Cole said that because of the importance of issues
facing the board, FAB should always start as soon as
posaile.
For future appointments, she said, ASUN should
approve members immediately after the new senate is
elected.
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Former FAB Chairman Don Wesley said "the set back
b more critical than ASUN realizes."
Tm concerned because after making FAB one of the
most respected groups on campus, they're expected to do
a good job7 by coming into the middle of the. semester."
Among the decisions facing the late-starting FAB
concerns student organizations that received money from
FAB last year and did not spend the amount allotted.
These cffginizations might have to give the money back to
FAB, Wesley said.
"Some organizations dont realize it, but they were
given money only for specific programs and even if the
programs fell through they cant spend it on anything else
unless FAB approves," he said.
The organizations which received student fee money
last semester will be audited within the next two weeks,
according to Cob, "so organizations had better be able to
account for all the programs and money that was alloca
ted." Cole said it has not been decided whether the unused
money will be recalled. Although no estimate was avail
able, Wesley said the "extra money accounted for thou
sands of dollars."
An audit deadline wO be established at the FAB
, meeting Sunday, Cole said. FAB members also wO decide
whether to recall money after each group is audited.
Money either will be recalled or approved for new pro
grams, she said.
New policy spawns conifowersy
By Dsb V&bsa -
A controversial policy initiated this fall by UNL's
Secondary Education Dept. changed evaluation of student
teachers from a nine-scale letter grade to a passfail, task
oriented system.
For some students, an aura of mystery sirrounds the
policy because of a lack of knowledge about it. They
don't know if they have to take student teaching passfail,
how to change it to a letter grade, the implications of six.
to 12 hours of passfail on their grade point average and
how this will affect their chances of getting a teaching job.
Administrators in Teachers College also seem to dis
agree about how the policy affects both students and
employers.
Before this fall, student teachers received letter grades
from A to F. The new system identifies 23 competencies
tasks the student teacher should be able to perform
effectively to get a "pass" grade. .
Under each of the 23 competencies are examples that
demonstrate a student teacher's ability to perform the
competency. For example, the first competency is "the
teacher identifies and diagnoses learner needs, and there
are 10 examples, listed underneath. One example is
"teacher uses school and subject area goals and objectives
as guidelines for identifying learner needs."
- Effects graded :
Competency effectiveness is evaluated by three per
son'sthe student teacher, a supervisor and a cooperating
teacher. The supervisor is a secondary education professor
in the student's major and the cooperating teacher is a
public school teacher who works with the student teacher
in the classroom.
When all three agree that a competency has been met
by the student teacher, the competency is checked off
with the date it was accomplished.
"It's a bunch of rhetoric," said one student teacher of
the competencies.
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Two doctors were chaTlenged about the seriousness of
swine flu Wednsday at a seminar in the Ncbraaka Unisn.
Dr. rtd Stoesz, state director of communicchle dl
ciss, and Dr. Kenneth IMMe, director of the Ifofcsenity
Ilesllh Center, toli about 75 students about ssfine
ixulstaoss. Ptula Irvlance, wife of a UNL student,
queianed Stoesz concerning a study done in Salidiury,
She sdd ofllciads stiged a mini epiiemk and exposed
sixmentosxineGu. -
1 tm concerned that these young people areal tihea
in by everything that these man are saying. In that study,
cone of the six men died, or had severe reactions to the
Cu, and none of the medical attendants contracted the
h!!e caring for the six men" Purviance said.
Soesi responded saying the purpose of the seminar
v.is to educate students about the inoculisa prccran.
lie sail he vsouM discuss Purriance's qat-tba after
fcnnal qutsticning was ccm;:ted.
Purviance declined to stay and left before speaking
with Stoesz. .
Hubble sail the inculatbn program must not be turned
into a political mie.
"The plans for the inoculation prograni were estahllah
ed at the contagious disease center in Atlanta and were
cot presented to the President until several weeks after,"
lid ssJL
."The President had nothing to do with the eatabllah
rnent of the programs.
"The United States his the techncloieel thty to
prevent an erilaraic; no ether country in the wcrli can
say that, and if we did not do this we woull be 11-Hr
cntsaaed.
According to Soesz, the oilatfca rths are far
cutnunared by the ks cf those studants whs refuse
to take the shot.
"Onieials can nuthar guarantee the sararlty cf the
iKmc cr the strsrh cf the disease," Ihtle tddad.
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"I tell her (the cooperating teacher) the competencies
I'm shooting for and if she agrees (that she has met them),
she checks if off," said the student teacher, who asked to
remain unidentified. -
Another problem with the new policy is that "we were
given the impression we had to take it (student teaching)
passfal," she said. "Cut there is so much red tape, if s
cot worth the time" to try to switch back to a letter
: grade, she said.
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really feel caught ia the middle," said the December
graduate, because "administrators across Nebraska don't
understand passfail. They would rather see grades and
recommendations."
"No two people interpret the competencies alike," said
another student teacher, who also asked cot to be ident
ified. - This presents problems when- the cooperating
teacher and supervisor disagree on a term and thus dis
agree if the student teacher has fulfilled it, he said.
The student teacher and cooperating teacher "don't
have time to check off every competency as it is met, he
said, so "we just make up dates."
He said this should be a "transition year," and students
should be able to take student teaching by either letter
grade or passfaiL
"We were told last spring we could change to a (letter)
fee said, by petitioning Elbert Alfrey (director of
secondary student teaching) and contracting a grade, he
said. . -; . v ;
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Students were "misinformed" when they were told
they only had to fill out a dropadd form to change from
passfait to a letter grade, he saiL
He said student teachers with a high grade point aver
age would be "chested at honors convocation" if they are
taking all their hours passfaiL
"You have to have a cumber of hours with a
you can't graduate with distbetien," he said.
Both student teachers said a drawback to the new
policy is thai there is no student input from dividual
students cr from the Teachers College Advisory Board, an
' advisory group cf Teachers College nsenibers.
"Applying the competencies (to teaching) h herd,"
said Stephen Hamsrsky, a 2I-yeer-cId student teacher
with a dual major kt math and physs, who is teaching
both subjects. .
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The competencies should be used "to feprc?e teach
ing, net to evaluate ycursalf" Hanasraky saM.
: Hsasttsky said his rocperating teachar expects his
advisers .to interpret the ccrcpetancks and that it is
"scmethnes funny to hear" when they fr-re hia tzo
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"1 den see that it (tie pasdAail pcly) wi2 tffect my
getting a job " he said. "Administrators are step tied
"I am worried about it tecauae it sounds so tentative
we're the guinea ps," said Cl?rfes Esnqaaz, a 22-ysax-eld
senior student teaching ia sncrl sciances.
Eruaez said that if cne chooses to contract for a
grade, it has teen tepHad "they would rcay grads hard
and make it toui on you."
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