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New Bill Stresses Pass-Fail Courses By SUE HEINZ Of thr Kmerald The ASUO Academic Commit tee paused n bill which would put more emphasis on pass no pass grading and planned an open hearing on the value of fi nals week at a meeting Wed nesday in the EMU. The pass-no pass bill introduc ed by l)an Allison states that the University’s grading empha sis is on the traditional letter grading system The bill calls for the empha sis to be shifted to the pass-no pass. It rerpiires faculty mem bers to decide which students have passed the course by ful filling the course requirements. Then a letter grade could be assigned to those students who desired one. The bill now goes to the Ways and Means Committee before go ing to the ASUO Senate The committee worked on setting up an open hearing con cerning finals week tentatively scheduled for the third week in February. According to Chair man Mark Schively, "the hearing will be simply an investigation" of the value of finals week. Faculty members both for and against the finals week system are being contacted for partici pation in the hearing. The com mittee hopes the hearing will raise discussions, ideas, and possible alternative solutions to the present finals system. In other action, the com mittee tabled for further study EMU Center Adds Activity Tin* University now has a Center for Experimental and Innovational Education The center, established to ad minister and co-ordinate experi mental activities of the academ ic sort on campus, is designed to he almost self-regulating and self perpetrating. It will perform all admin istrative functions pertinent to its activities, collect and dis seminate all curricular informa tion applicable to its activities, collect, maintain, and evaluate records of its activities, print all its own materials, and pro mote all of the activities through approriate channels. The Center, to be a division of the Department of the Erb Memorial Union and Education al Activities, will get its opera tional funds as a part of the de partment. The administrator of the cen ter will be drawn from the stall of the department and will be responsible to it for all administrative functions of the center. The center’s policy and proce dure will be controlled by a joint commission, composed of member* of the Faculty Curric ular Committee, the chairman of the Faculty Committee on Educational E x perimentation, Innovation, and Improvement, and the respective chairmen of SEARCH, the Co-ordinating Council of Student Departmen tal Curriculum Committees, and the ASUO Senate Academic Committee, plus the ASUO pres ident, and the administrator of the center as ex-officio, non-vot ing member. a bill by Senator Dan Allison which would allow academic credit for involvement in stu dent government. The bill considers the student leader who spends many hours outside his studies in student government. Allison stated the bill could also apply to other groups such as the EMtJ hoard, the Emerald and the Oregana. Allison proposed that credit for these activities could be given through reading and conference courses numbered 405 The committee also tabled a bill by Senator Handy Farleigh concerning the establishment of freshman and sophomore semin ars and one by Senator Tom Fa gan for the establishment of open faculty-senate meetings. Search Policy Investigated By Senate A policy of search and sei zure and a re-evaluation of the pass-no pass system will be ex plored by the ASUO Senate session tonight in the EMU. Other bilLs on the docket in clude a policy to extend EMU closing hours and the granting of ASUO funds to the interna tional Festival and the Crew Team. The policy of search and sei zure involves people living in University housing As it stands now, all University students in University housing are subject to search and seizure without a warrant from an authorized group. Under the new policy, a writ ten authorization would have to be obtained from the University Conduct Committee or the Pres ident of the University before the search could be made. Cases of emergency and routine in spections by the dorm counsel ors would be the only exceptions. Another look at pass-no-pass will be a bill sponsored by Sen ator Dan Allison. The policy requests faculty members to put more emphasis on the fact that a student fills the requirements of a course rather than his abil ity to make a letter grade. A bill to extend EMU hours to midnight on week days and 2 p.m. on weekends for the rest of the academic year will be sponsored by Senator Tom Fa gan. A record of use and cost would be kept in order to de termine whether the new hours should be a permanent policy at the University. The ASUO Fiscal Committee has granted monied requests of $1,000 and $1,400 to the International Festival and the Crew Team respectively. $150 Up to 2 Years To Pay r< A HARRY RITCHIE S56 Willamette, Eugene 20 Coburg Rd. hey! Pape-Cross Is Infested With Bugs. 343-3307 Deadline Set Feb. 9 is the last day appli cations for degrees can be filed for inclusion in the list of all degree candidates for the March 8 Graduation Convoca tion. An applicant must have com pleted all necessary work and procedures for the degree by March 15. This includes filing transcripts from all other schools attended. Any student who has applied previously and did not receive the degree must re-apply. Any student who does not meet the above deadlines must re-apply for a future date. Law Professors Attack Hershov new YORK (CPS) — Three hundred and twenty-five profes sors from 32 law schools have come out against Selective Serv ice Director Lewis Hershey’s memorandum to local draft boards that anti-war and draft demonstrators be reclassified and drafted. The professors signed a state ment supporting efforts by the American Civil Liberties Union iACLU) to get the memo re scinded. The ACLU has filed suits in support of men reclas silied under the order and has asked college presidents to urge the rescinding of the order. Four student groups have also filed a general suit against Her shey asking for an injunction to stop enforcement of the memo. That suit is expected to be heard some time in February. The list of professors signing the statement included faculty members from such prestigeous law schools as Harvard, Colum bia, Yale, New York University, Cornell, Rutgers, Wisconsin, Duke, and Michigan. 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