Grades
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that grade.
“We miss out on the added degrees
of discrimination the minus system
would give us,” he said. “There is an
asymmetrical imbalance about this
system.”
Knoche said that adding minuses
would make it difficult to measure a
student’s performance accurately be
cause it would add four more scales of
possible grades to the present eight
scales, bringing the total to 12.
“That would be a 50 percent in
crease,” he said. “We need to decide
how many scales we can utilize effec
tively.”
Knoche said the system would
make it difficult to decide a minus
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grade because the professor would
have to measure the performance lev
els on a much smaller scale.
For instance, any C grade above 75
could be considered a plus grade.
However, he said, professors prob
ably would not give the minus grade
unless the points were below 73 per
cent.
“We can’t measure performance
levels of pluses and minuses between
one and a half points,” Knoche said.
Grades often depend on the profes
sor of the course, Knoche said, and
students who received a minus on
their grade reports might not neces
sarily deserve the minus.
“So in the final analysis, it’s a
judgment call,” he saidv
Ford agreed, but asked in turn why
a professor should use pluses but not
minuses. If minuses were not put on
ASUN
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“While I think the case doesn’t
specifically apply to the university, it
seems appropriate for the committee
to take up the issue,” he said.
Howe said Loudon raised some
valid concerns about the elimination
of the prayers.
Howe said, however, that the com
mittce would not necessarily vote to
put the prayers back into the cer
emony.
Loudon had planned to bring up a
resolution on emergency status at
Wednesday’s ASUN meeting asking
the Commencement Committee to
reconsider its decision.
He also had planned a press con
ference today with representatives
from religious groups on campus and
ASUN to publicize the decision state
wide.
Loudon said he dec ided not to bring
up tne resolution atter Howe called to
say he supported the ASUN resolu
tion to reconsider lhe4>an.
Loudon said he was confident that
the committee would change its deci
sion and allow prayers in the com
mencement ceremony.
“It’llprobably beadonedeal within
seven days,” Loudon said. “It shows
that student opinion won over in this
case.”
In other business at the ASUN
meeting, the senate voted to reduce
the number of senators on the Five
Year Projection Committee from six
to two. The committee recommends
plans to ASUN for campus improve
ment.
The senate also approved adding
five students at large so that a wider
variety of experiences would be rep
resented on the committee.
Also, ASUN approprialcdS500 for
Rape Awareness Week and passed a
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the grade reports, Ford said, he would
be in favor of getting rid of the plus
system all together.
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“Why just have a plus system?” he
said. “Why not just have 3 minus
system? or both together — not just
one.”
Incorporating minuses into the sys
tem would cost the university rela
tively little, Ford said, because the
minuses could be programmed into
UNL’s new information software sys
tem. The new information system is
expected to be implemented in the fall
of 1994.
A questionnaire about the minus
system will be sent out to faculty this
week, Ford said, and its results will be
discussed by the Academic Senate,
who will make the final decision.
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