the Penn State-Behrend NOVEMBER 21.1985 Students can air grievances in Traffic Appeals Court by Barb Cavano Collegian Staff Writer There is a Traffic Appeals Court on campus that is accessible to all students. The appeals com mittee was established to help those students who feel they have been wrongly ticketed. An appealing student will be represented by a committee of students and the Dean of Student Affairs, Dohn Harshbarger. The committee consists of Paul Rossman (Vice President of SGA), Doug Gerow (President of SGA), Bill Harten (President of JRC), Bryan Schuster (President of Commuter Council, Barrett Parker (Vice President of Com muter Council), and Scott Baker and Alene-. Rohde (students at IBM Director visits his alma mater by Paol Kitchen Cloud was bom in Greenville, Collegian Staff Writer PA in 1932. He spent 3.5 years in Harley Cloud, the 1985 the U.S. Navy-as an electronics Behrend College Alumni Fellow, technician. visited the campus Nov. 18 and In January, 1958, Cloud 19. Director of IBM’s Federal graduated from the Pennsylvania Systems Division, Cloud met State University with a BSEE, was faculty, staff, and students, a member of five fraternities, and toured the campus and sat in on was Graduating Class Marshall, computer science, business and He is a member of the Board of engineering courses. Directors of the Penn State A student at Behrend in 1954, Engineering Society, the Penn Cloud returned to his alma mater State Alumni Association, and the and received the Behrend Alumni Nittany Lion Club. He also Medallion following a dinner in graduated from Syracuse Univer the Memorial Room on Nov. 19. continued on page 3 Are you ready? large). To appeal a ticket, a student must first make a claim within 48 hours with Police and Safety, where they will also get an appeal form. A copy of this form is sent to Student Affairs and the Stu dent Government Association. Paul Rossman, committee chair man, then chooses a time for the board to get together with the ticketing officer. “It’s a pretty in volved process,” Rossman said. “If we think an appeal is not go ing to pass, we try to discourage the student from continuing the appeal process,” he continued. There have been five ticket ap peals this semester and, through the committee, three of these have been voided. “The three voided Collegian STATION ROAD, ERIE, PA. 16563 tickets were for non-posted, il legal parking,” Rossman said. “The committee clears up a lot of problems,” he added. The Traffic Appeals Court can only handle on-campus tickets but does have a voice in community related problems. The committee is also planning a poster size map to show students all available campus parking. If you feel you have been wrongly ticketed, the Traffic Ap peals Court is willing to handle your appeal. A note to commuters; the tem porary parking lot by the Nick Bulling will not be plowed this winter and the new lot will open as soon as lights are provided. Behrend 'Alumni Fellow Teacher evaluations: Tables turn on giving grades Instructional Evaluation Forms (1.E.F.) will be used at the end of Fall 85. The I.E.F. is an evaluation system so students can rate their instruc tor on overall effectiveness, course organization, textbook and assign ment suitability and more . This is the students’ best way to inform the administration and faculty about the quality of teaching at Behrend. The results of this survey are used in determining decisions relating to tenure and promotion. The tenure and promotion system is the means by which faculty ad vance through the University on the basis of merit. Student opinion, calculated by the results of the I.E.F.’s are important factors in the decision-making process. If a faculty member is denied tenure, he or she will not be able to continue teaching at the Pennsylvania State University. The Instructional Evaluation Form will contain a variety of questions that are answered in the following manner. The faculty members are judged and reviewed for promotion based on the following criteria: teaching ability and effectiveness, research or creative accomplishment, scholarly performance and mastery of subject matter, and service to the University, the public and the profession. continued on page 2 Clubs acquire mini-grants by Barrett Parker Collegian Staff Writer Last week saw the approval of Awareness Week was granted 300 several mini-grants. The mini- dollars. Two other mini-grants are grant system was created to allow still pending, including a grant for special projects to be funded Bruno’s to purchase a portable without taking an entire years bar, a backdrop and lighting and budget allocation to do so. another grant for a symposium on Behrend was granted 1,025 women and minorities planned dollars for many such projects, for April. The Film Production Club was “The fund has been established granted 400 dollars for equip- to provide for individual campus ment, the Behrend Collegian was projects, to meet unique needs, or granted 325 dollars fqr syndicated to provide for planned pro columnists and features, the grams,” said Jamie Grimm, Behrend Music Society was given continued on page 8 Inside This Issue Divestiture follow up page 3 Air band competition page 6 St. Louis Cardinal returns page 9 Cub hoopsters ready for competition page 10 VOLUME XXXIV NUMBER 6 by Mark Wuerthele Collegian Staff Writer U equals unsatisfactory BA equals below average A equals average AA equals above average V equals very good E equals excellent * equals exceptional (top 2 percent) 300 dollars for new robes, and National Collegiate Alcohol
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