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ASUO Plans Curriculum Proposals • • • (Continued from page 1) much length in the Committee but they are still undecided on exactly what kind of a proposal they want to make in this area. There are several possibilities. The student could pick any course outside his major to be graded pass or fail, limited by a University regulation that allows a student to take no more than 36 hours of his first 186 hours (the amount needed to gradu ate) in classes where no letter grades are given. Or certain courses could be designated as ungraded for all students. Or for non-majors. This raises the question of which classes. The idea behind pass or fail classes is to en courage juniors and seniors to take non-major courses they might normally shy away from because it might hurt their GPA and to take the grade pressure off freshmen and sophomore stu dents who are required to take many courses outside their ma jors. Ungraded lower division classes would take of the latter group but not the first. Lower Division Classes It has been also suggested that only lower division group require ments classes be ungraded. The committee has decided these classes will be pass or fail, not pass or no-pass. That means that if a student fails the Facuity ,DadstoDiscuss Current Interest Topics Dads and University faculty members will be provided with the opportunity to discuss topics of current interest Saturday morning of Dads’ Day. Nine discussion groups will be open to dads and University fac ulty in the Student Union begin ning at 9 a.m. Discussion topics and rooms follow: ‘The Changing Academic Community” — Rm. 108: “The Quality of Undergraduate Teach ing”—Rm. 109; “Academic Free dom—and Responsibility” — Rm. 110; “Student Life. Its Stresses, Strains, Benefits”—Rm. Ill; “Fi nancing University Education: In stitutional, Personal”—Rm. 334: “The Changing Role of Fraterni ties and Sororities” — Rm. 315; “The University’s Role and Re sponsibility with Respect to Mor als, Conduct, Manners—The Qual ity of Life in the University Com munity”—Rm. 101; “The Univer sity of Oregon in 1971”—Rm. 333; Audiences Asked For Poetry Show Kester Svendsen, head of the University Department of Eng lish, is on television on “The Poet’s Eye” program at the Uni versity. Svendsen’s show is telecast at 9 p.m. on alternate Thursdays over state educational television stations, KOAC-TV (Channel 7) Corvallis, and KOAP-TV (Chan nel 10) Portland. The program originates on the University cam pus. Audiences are invited to be present at the telecasts in the studio on the third floor of Vil lard Hall. However, they must be in the studio by 8:30 p.m. before the program goes on the air. Since there is limited space in the studio, those wishing to be in the audience are asked to tele phone for reservations, which will be made on a first-call basis. Call the Director of Broadcast Serv ices ext. 2411. Greeks, Dorms to Vie In UO College Bowl Dyment Hall will team up; with Zeta Tau Alpha in another first round match against Chi Phi and Thornton Hall on Uni versity College Bowl today. The match is scheduled for 9 p.m. on channel 3 in the dorms and channel 11 on television sets equipped with the ABAR cable. The public is also invited to watch the program live in the studio on the third floor of Vil lard Hall. Briefing to Examine Democracy in Nigeria “Political change in Nigeria Has democracy failed?” is the ti tle of today’s briefing to be held in the World Affairs Briefing Center at 4 p.m. today. Sponsored by the University African Stu dent Association, the program will be given by a panel of two African students. Longinus Iwu and Samuel Falegan. The briefing center is in the basement of the SU near the Bottom-of-the Bowl. | “Intercollegiate Athletics—Meet the Coaches”—Rm. 214. The discussion groups, sched uled to end at 10:50 a m., are to be followed by election of Dads’ Club officers and reports of con clusions reached in the discus sion groups, at a general meeting in 101 SU. A "no host” breakfast will be available to dads beginning at 7:30 a.m. in the SU dining room. Dads may take their breakfast to a discussion room and eat while taking part in a discussion. No advance reservation is needed for the Saturday morning breakfast. Rhodesia Crisis Browsing Topic “Southern Rhodesia: Back ground to Crisis” will be the topic of discussion in the Brows ing Room Wednesday. Prof William J. Talbot, Uni versity of Cape Town, South Af rica, will lecture and show slides at the 7:30 p.m. program. Now chairman of the depart ment of geography at the Univer sity of Cape Town, Talbot has been a member of the Associa tion of American Geographers since 1957; he has belonged to The Society For Teaching Geog raphy since 1959, and was elected an honorary life member in 1964 Member of the South African Geographical Society since 1950, he has served as president and vice president of the organization. Talbot, in preparation with his wife as a callaborator, has writ ten “Changes in land utilization in the Western Cape Province, 1943-1963—a memoir to be sub mitted for publication by The World Land Use Survey,” and “Maps and Texts for The South African section of the World Atlas of Agriculture, edited by Prof. C. Vanzetti—University of Padua.” Talbot has also written chap ters on “Africa” for numerous United States textbooks, made atlases of The Union of South Africa, and written numerous articles for scholarly journals. Discussion leader for the pro gram will be Edward T. Price, head of the department of geog raphy at the University. Film to Show Pollution Of Historic U.S. River A famous American river de graded by pollution will be seen in a color film, “Teamwork on the Potomac,” at the University today. The film, produced by the In terstate Commission on the Poto mac River Basin in Washington, D.C., can be seen by the public at 8 p.m. in the SU. “Teamwork on the Potomac” shows the historic river at its worst and describes the difficult climb towards restoration. The film is the third in a series of programs on pollution sponsored by the Student Union Board and Recreation Council. Want to really get results?— Use Emerald Classified Ads— Phone 342-1411, Ext. 1818. class it affects his grade point average. The Committee feels this will justify giving a pass for any grade which would normally be a D or better. The Committee Is also unsure of whether to get that 36-hour limit lowered at the same time. • Changing the last day to drop classes. This is presently about three weeks after the start of the term—in other words, be fore mid-term. At one time it was 30 days before finals and the Committee Is considering moving it back until after mid term. Some faculty members ob Regent to Discuss Catholic Theology Father Kevin Wall, O.P., pro - vice Regent of studies of the Dominican Student of St. Albert the Great in Oakland, Calif., will speak at 8 p m. today in 204 Chapman Hall on “Directions in Contemporary Catholic Theology." The speech is part of the round table discussions sponsored by the Religious Directors Associa tion. Fr. Wall will speak about some of the theologians who have had the greatest impact on Vatican II and the life and thinking in the Church today. Fr. Wall is also a professor of Catholic Theology at the Grad uate Theological Union at the University of California. The Lane Memorial Blood Bank needs the following type* of blood for it.* special ac count which serve* the faculty, students and staff of the University. Donor hours are 1:30 to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and by appointment from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday. The Blood Bank is located at 790 E. 11th Ave., nr*t to the Mayflower Theatre. Phone 345*0336 for fur ther information. Blood Bank Today Units Needed 3 A Positive A Negative O Positive O Negative I) Positive Type 5 0 B Negative ject, however, that students shouldn't be allowed to drop a class because they might fail it. • Changing from a three hour to a five-hour course base. This would mean most students would take three five-hour classes in stead of five three-hour classes. This has been done on many other campuses. It would be one of the most fundamental changes the ASUO Committee is trying for. It will probably have to be done piecemeal tried in a few departments before the entire University switches over to it, and will probably take several years to accomplish. • An academic appeals board. This would allow students who feel they have been dealt with unjustly to appeal to a faculty committee. “This probably ap plies to only 10 or 12 students a year," says Goldschmidt, but he still thinks it’s worth developing a system. At present students con only appeal to the faculty mem ber and then ask the head of the department to intervene. Most cases will stop there anyway, ac cording to the Curriculum Com mittee, but there are a few who still feel they aren’t treated fair ly. They have no further appeal. Examine Appeal What the Committee will prob ably do is set up a committee of graduate students that will ex amine each appeal and make a recommendation to a faculty com mittee that will have the final authority. That committee will proiumiy consist t»i imrr muiki ing members plus two professors from the department involved in each individual case. They would have the power to change the grade. This proposal is still In the early stages The Committee must still decide what a student should have to prove in order to dem onstrate that he was treated un fairly. There is also the question, which the faculty will surely raise, about whether this inter feres with academic freedom. • Individual course changes. Several of these are in the works. They include some new classes and some changes in the present curriculum. ROTC Staff Sergeant Assigned to Thailand Stalf Sergeant Lewis Turner, a member of the Air f’roce ROTC detachment, has been assigned to Bangkok. Thailand. Turner will be leaving the cam pus after spending eight and a half years on the AFHOTC staff as the training NCO for the Cadet Group. While in Thailand he will be working in personnel. Oregon Dally Emerald The Orrfon I>atly KmertJd •» ptib!t*hed five time* in September and five day* a during the iitatlrmir year, rxerpt duricg r*.»nmuit j | « f < ‘l«, by ihr Stttolrnt 1* A cat ton« litcifd ol the I'nivetaity f>1 Oregon Second iU«- |h tagr paid at Kuffenr. Ore* got) V74<*.*. b-d ix i tpuun talc* $5 per >Mt, %2 per term ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT — Get Your Dad's Day Luncheon Tickets Now, S.U. Main Desk . .$2.00 Have You Seen People Reading Dynamically Do You Wish You Could Do It Too? You Can! Both Classes Are Still Open Classes Are Now Starting TUESDAY FEB. 15 AT 7:00 THURSDAY FEB. 17 AT 3:30 AT THE Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute Call for Information 344-3154 or 344-8345 1432 Orchard (Right Behind McDonald's)
