New drop/add policy
saves students money
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ByKasey_Kerber__
Staff Reporter
A new drop/add policy allows
students to drop a class up to 12
weeks into the semester without an
instructor’s approval.
Previously, students could drop
without permission only until the
eighth week.
But students who take advan
tage of the new policy after the
second week will receive a “W”—
meaning withdrawal — as a grade
for the course. In the past, a student
would receive a “W” only if they
dropped after the eighth week.
The new policy was approved at
an Academic Senate meeting last
spring, said James Griesen, vice
chancellor for student affairs. That
was the same meeting where a pro
posal for a plus/minus grading sys
tem was rejected.
“Not a lot of students realized it
had changed because attention was
more focused on the plus/minus
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grading policy,” Griesen said.
Students considering a late with
drawal may wonder just how dam
aging a “W” on their transcripts^
would be.
The 1994-95 Undergraduate
Bulletin states that “the ‘W’ grade
will appear on the student’s aca
demic record but will not affect
GPA,”
“I think it doesn’t matter too
terribly much,” Griesen said. “It’s
more of encouragement for stu
dents to get their dropping of
courses out of the way early in the
semester.”
In changing the policy, officials
had students’ pocketbooks in mind,
he said. If students wait to drop a
class until after the eighth week,
they forfeit all fees and-receive no
refund.
“This is a good policy because it
will also save students’ money,”
Griesen said. “They’ll do all drop
ping right now, and it will save '
them money in the long-run.”
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Nicol Savoy stands before Theta Xi Fraternity, where she is housemother. At 25, Savoy is about
half the age of the average UNL housemother.
Young housemom earns respect
By Patty Wewel
Staff Reporter ~
Nicol Savoy, 25, is the mother of
45 college men — the housemother
that is..
Savoy is Theta Xi Fraternity’s new
parental figure, and it’s a role she’s
held before.
Last year, Savoy was a housemother
at the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity at
Nebraska Wesleyan University.
While some may raise their eye
brows at a 25-year-old woman living
in a fraternity house-, fraternity mem
bers such as Matt Geer say Savoy is
nothing but professional.
Geer, a junior advertising major,
said at first he thought the Theta Xi
men might hit on Savoy or be other
wise disrespectful.
But after meeting Savoy and see
ing her approach to the job, Geer said,
he knew there wouldn’t be any prob
lems.
Savoy said she had only received
respect from the Theta Xi men and
also doesn’t foresee any problems.
In the beginning, there was appre
hension. Theta Xi President Brian
Murphy said he remembered the day
he first came across Savoy’s applica
tion.
He was concerned about how oth
ers would perceive a housemother liv
ing in the same house with men only a
few years younger than she. And he
was concerned about how the men in
the house would accept her, he said.
• But Savoy s resume was impres
sive, he said. After looking through -
nearly 20 applications, he felt Savoy
was the most qualified for the job.
Any other-reservations about Sa
voy, Murphy said, were put to rest
after he and an alumnus interviewed
her.
“She lived up to her resume and
more,” Murphy said.
The job description of “house
mother” varies from fraternity to fra
ternity and housemother to house-’
mother, Savoy said. In general, she
said, a housemother works to ensure
that the house functions in a healthy
manner.
Savoy said site wanted to be in
volved — to take part in everything
from cleaning house to philanthropy
projects.
“I feel that I’m here to help.basi
cally.” Savoy said. ‘Tip not here to sit
in my room and twiddle my thumbs.”
She even loves to edit papers, she
said—a fact she has yet to share with .
the men of the Theta Xi house.
Although the average age of a Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln house
mother is about twice Savoy’s age,
she said her age didn’t interfere with
her job. It can even be an asset, she
said.
Savoy, who graduated from UNL
in May 1994, said she could empa
thize with college students.
“I know where they are coming
from. I see them doing things 1 have
done myself,” said Savoy, who is cur-T
rently a graduate student in adminis
trative arts at Doanc College in Crete.
She holds a 4.0 grade point average.
Theta Xi member Bob Brakenhoff,
a senior architectural landscaping
major, said he was more at ease with
the younger housemother.
And Geer agreed that a younger
housemother could better relate to the
men in the fraternity.
_ “She’s old enough to keep con
trol,” he said, “but young enough to
relate interpersonally with us.”
Savoy said it upset her when people
assumed-she was too young to be a
good housemother. Sometimes she
feels she hasto prove herself with the
other housemothers, she said.* •
Savoy said she didn t want other
housemothers to see her as a 25-year
old, but rather as a good housemother
with experience.
For a housemother, it’s personality
that is important, she said, not age.
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Her laid-back personality is one of
the keys to her success, she said.
“Nothing shocks me,” she. said.
Maturity, she said, is also impor
tant. Savoy said she worked to present
herself in a professional matter.
Being a housemother is rewarding,
she said. Savoy said she liked helping
people and getting involved in student
services.
“In general, if I’m helping some
one and they’re making progress from
my guidance, that’s rewarding forme.”
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