Rules of Attendance With the opening of the college year, the student body was agreeably surprised to be confronted by a new set of rules, which ,are more liberal and more fair to everybody than any that have ever been enforced at this institution. As it is now, each student is expected to attend every exercise for which he is scheduled. He may make his own cut rules, but if they conflict with his stand ing in any subject he must drop that subject, and thereby suffer for his mistakes. Now it is up to each and every student of this institution to show that he can be self-governing. The opportunity for which State men have been striving has been offered, and should be grasped. • These rules favor the student's much more than the ones to which we have been accustomed and their success or failure depends wholly upon the way each student tries to carry them out. It is to be hoped that they will be successful, for the older men at least remember how burdensome the old system was. RULES OF ATTENDANCE 1906-07 1 Each student is expected to at tend every exercise for which he is scheduled. If a student is obliged to be absent he is expected to ex plain promptly to his Instructor the reason. . 2 (a) All absences from assigned exercises are reported to the Reg- (b) Failure to be in one's proper, place at the ringing of the second bell for any exercise, unless satis factorily explained at that time, is treated as an absence. 3 A student whose irregularity in attendance causes him, in the judg ment of the Instructor, to become deficient in any subject, will, after due warning, be excluded therefrom by the instructor, and his name re ported to the Registrar and to the THE STATE COLLEGIAN Dean of the School in which he is enrolled. 4 (a) When the absences of any student in any subject amount to one-fourth of the whole number of exercises required therein in one semester (exclusive of research days), he is thereby excluded from that subject. (b) A student who absents hin self from any required Summer School work is thereby excluded from the subject, unless his absence is satisfactorily explained at the time. 5 A student, excluded from a sub ject on account of absences, may be reinstated by the Registrar only upon the recommendation of the In structor in charge, the Head of the Department, and the Dean of the School in which the subject be longs. 6 A student excluded under rules 3 and 4 from work aggregating eight periods per week, is thereby dropped from the College, and can be reinstated only by the Council of Administration. 7 A student who has been rein stated, under rule 5 or 6 in any sub ject, must make up all omitted work in a manner satisfactory to the In structor. 8 Absences from Military Drill will be dealt with in accordance with the rules of the Military Depart ment. 9 (a) At the middle and end of each semester a student's record must show credits for attendance on morning Chapel for at least two thirds of the total number of ex ercises. Additional credits will be carried forward to apply on required attendance in the Senior year. Failure to comply subjects the stu dent to immediate suspension from all College exercises. ( b) Sunday Chapel is reckoned separately, but is subject to the same regulations as morning Chapel. (c) Students residing with their parents or guardians in or near the village, may be excused from atten dance at the College chapel on Sun days on the presentation to the Registrar of a written request from their parents or guardians. This request must be renewed at the be ginning of each College year. 10 Any student who absents him self from a final examination, will not be allowed to attend any further College exercises unless excused by the President. 11 Absences from hours assigned for tutoring will not be allowed ex cept by the permission of the Head of the Department in which the sub ject belongF. 12 Students are required to be present at all exercises for which they are scheduled that occur with in twenty-four hours of the begin ning and end of sessions and semesters and of the Thanksgiving recess. Absence from four such exercises during a semester shall place the student under indefinite suspension. Y.M.C.A. Reception Fully eight hundred persons at tended the annual reception to new students given by the Young Men's Christian Association in the Armory last Friday evening. Though most of those present were students, a considerable number were members of the Faculty and their * wives, in structors, and friends of the College. The program was opened with mu sic by the college orchestra and the singing of "Come, Brothers, Let us Raise the Song." President B. D. Kunkle, 'O7, of the Association, then introduced our new Vice-Presi dent, Dr. Welsh, who presenent his ideas in a clear, straightforward manner. He was followed by Coach Fennell, who talked a litttle on foot ball, but chiefly on the kind of characters that men should endeavor to form in college. After a selec tion by the orchestra, "Mother"
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