UNIVERSITY COUNCIL MEMBERS discuss the results of their meeting last week. Seated from left to right they are: Ken Novak,
graduate student representative, Russell Larson, University Provost, and Mark Singel, undergraduate student representative.
Students hit
By JERRY SCHWARTZ
Collegian Staff Write-'
tw * , evaluation. It is now 1974, and
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Univercitv r^ bursaay S proved a University-wide
University Council meeting. £ ourse evaluation foriri jast
Ken Novak, graduate fall, in cooperation with the
student representative, and Senate’s Committee on
Mark Singel, undergraduate Academic Affairs and the
representative, protested the University Division of In-
Senate’s decision to defer structional Services
action on evaluation until a “There is a chance that the
committee can be appointed students will be left out in the
to set policy. cold due to the faculty’s at-
C/ass repeat
Complicated system changes and a “breach of promise” to
students explain why changes in the course repeat rule, M-3-b,
will not be in effect Spring Term as hoped, an administration
spokesman said.
According to Eugene Melander, assistant vice president for
undergraduate studies, many students already had
preregistered to repeat courses in which they had received a
D grade. Under the new rule, only petitions to repeat courses
in which an F grade was received will be considered.
Melander sgid the administration considered the new rule a
“breach of promise” to those students who had preregistered
under that premise.
Melander said all requests would be harder to program and
process since a C grade or better would now be required to
replace an F grade.
Under the old rule, some students were repeating courses to
raise their grade point averages rather than for learning
purposes, Melander said, and were taking the class spaces of
lower-termed students. The emphasis of the new rule will be
Senate sets up
evaluation group
A permanent course
evaluation policy committee
was established by the
University Faculty Senate at
its March 5 meeting.
The proposal for the
committee was one of nine
recommendations made by
the Senate’s Subcommittee on
Evaluation of Courses,
Programs and Teaching.
The Senate rejected the
other eight , recom
mendations, which would
have standardized course
evaluations throughout the
University.
The new committee also
will continuously monitor and
review evaluation policy and
its implementation.
The Senate returned
recommended guidelines for
increasing student par
ticipation in academic affairs
to the Student Affairs Com
mittee for further study.
In other action, the Senate
British soldier killed
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Guerrillas ambushed
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center outside the city in an abortive attempt to steal arms,
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They said at least five gunmen were involved in the ambush
on the motorized patrol in a Roman Catholic section of the
city.
Earlier, four masked guerrillas drove into the com
munications center in a hijacked truck, tied up three guards
and took another hostage. But authorities said-the hostage
escaped when other guards routed the gunmen, who aban
doned the truck and fled on foot.
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“In 1970, the Senate ap
proved the idea of student
approved a rule change which'
will allow qualified veterans
who were dropped from the
University for unsatisfactory
scholarship to be readmitted
under special veterans’
programs.
The rules had
discriminated against Penn
State students while per
mitting students dropped
from other schools to be
admitted under the
programs.
.'Senate Chairman Ernest L.
Bergman also announced that
collective bargaining will be
discussed in a special debate
at the April 2 Senate meeting.
He said the American
Association of University
Professors, Pennsylvania
State University Professional
Association, Open Options,
and the Graduate Student
Association have been invited
to present their views on
faculty unionization.
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tempt to develop a perfect chairman, requesting prompt
questionnaire,” Singel said, action in the appointment of
“They’re never going to get a the committee,
perfect questionnaire. This is The Council also received a
just overprotectiveness and report from Robert A. Pat
foot-dragging.” terson, senior vice president
Novak said he thinks the f or . f* nanc ® an( * operations,
faculty is afraid students will } ,stln f P ubl ‘ c T transportation
take the evaluations and try [ rom University Park.
to h»v P instructors fired. Charles J - Smith > °B ontz
, _, , , campus director and Council
‘I believe that students are vice chairman, said the
honestly concerned that they Council was concerned with
get their feedback to the inaccessability of
professors,” he said. University Park. Smith said
The council sent a letter to the Council recommended a
Ernest L. Bergman Spnate survey of staff and faculty
rule tabled
on improved learning, he said.
He said one student had erased several previous F grades
with one additional failing grade. Under the new rule, a
student is limited to four petitions to repeat courses.
Students who wish to repeat courses in which they received
a D still will be able to do so under rule E-l-a. Both grades will
be included in the grade point average.
Under the new rule, if a C or better is received in the
repeated course, the F grade will not be computed in the
average.
If a student fails the same course more than once, only one F
grade will be excluded from the average. In either case, all F
grades will remain on the permanent academic record.
All petitions for repeating a course must be signed by the
u ead of the department in which the course is taught.
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travel followed by an attempt
to encourage air flights
directly from major cities
such as Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh to University Park
Airport.
“We’re concerned not only
with students, faculty and
staff but also with visiting
dignitaries who find it dif
ficult to come here,” Smith
said.
The Council also reacted to
a presentation of non
academic counseling at the
University given at the last
meeting by Harvey Wall,
director of the Division of
Undergraduate Studies. ’[’he
Council recommended more
be done to publicize those
services available * to
students.
Representative Paul “Pete” McCloskey (R-California)
Monday, March 18, 1974
8:00 p.m. Schwab Auditorium
“Current Politics in Washington”
Victor Gold, Agnew’s Former Press Secretary
Tuesday, March 19,1974
8:00 p.m. Kern Assembly Hall
“The Use of Skepticism”
“The Murder of Fred Hampton” (Video Tape)
Discussion following 8:00 p.m. showing HUB Main Lounge
Wednesday, March 20, 1974
Robin Morgan, Feminist Editor of Sisterhood is Powerful
Thursday, March 21,1974 ~~ ———
8:00 p.m. HUB Ballroom
“Feminist Tactics”
Daniel Ellsberg
Friday, March 22,1974
8:00 p.m. Recreation Hall
“The Pentagon Papers Trial and Beyond”
Board names Wall
permanent director
By JERRY SCHWARTZ
Collegian Staff Writer
The acting director of the Division of
Undergraduate Studies has been named to
head the Division permanently.
Harvey W. Wall, the first director of DUS,
was appointed permanqpt director by the
University Board of Trustees at its meeting
in Hershey Saturday. Wall, a University
staff member since 1954, was recommended
for the position by a student-faculty com
mittee.
Established last fall, DUS serves as an
academic unit for the advising, enrollment
and registration of students not enrolled in
one of the University’s 10 colleges.
DUS also provides pre-college testing and
counseling for all entering undergraduate
students, advises, -egisters and enrolls
resident education adjunct students;
handles advising and sets up academic
information centers in the colleges and at
each of the Commonwealth Campuses.
“I think our primary effort will be to
establish the University-wide information
system,” Wall said. He said he will work to
coordinate academic instruction and
counseling for adjunct students and to
refine and improve other counseling and
testing programs.
University President John W. Oswald
announced the establishment of a
cooperative liberal arts and engineering
program with Gettysburg College to start in
the fall.
Under the program, students will spend
three years at Gettysburg studying liberal
arts subjects along with pre-engineering
courses and complete their last two years at
Penn State taking engineering courses.
Participants will be awarded baccalaureate
degrees from each institution.
The program allows students who are
uncertain if they wish to study engineering
or other disciplines to make a decision at
Gettysburg.
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The program will allow students to
complete what would otherwise require six
or more years of study in five years.
The University conducts similar
programs with 10 other institutions.
The trustees also approved a University
wide graduate program for dual title
degrees in operations research.
Under the new program, graduate
students in approved degree programs will
have the option of pursuing work in
operations research as well as satisfying
requirements for another degree.
Students who successfully complete their
studies will be awarded dual title degrees,
such as master of science in business ad
ministration and operations research.
Nineteen programs in eight majors have
been approved for participation in the
operations research program. A faculty
committee will oversee the program.
The Board approved sketch plans for an
addition to the Eisenhower Chapel which
will contain meeting rooms, a lounge area,
offices and a large multi-purpose room. The
addition will be funded by gifts from friends
of the Eisenhower family.
Lewd or lovable?
NEW YORK (AP) —Are they perverts or
pranksters? Lewd or lovable? A danger or a
delight?
Letters to the editors of the nation’s
newspapers show the population is about
evenly divided in its opinion of streakers
dashing nude across college campuses and
city streets.
“We have raised up a generation of
fre.aks,” wrote’ E.B. Buffington to the
Houston, Tex., Chronicle.
“I am convinced...that they are not, in
any way sick—unless some caught cold,”
said William Smithers in a letter to the
editor of the Leader-Herald in Gloversville,
N.Y.
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