ASUO Plans Curriculum Proposals
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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;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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