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By MARIAN GREEN
Of th« Emerald
University Senate members approved a mo
tion Wednesday to defer instituting until 1983 a
mathematics proficiency requirement for a ba
chelor of science degree.
Senate members voted for the deference
19-10 with two abstentions.
In November 1979, the University Assembly
approved a motion to require students entering
next fall to complete 36 hours of science or social
science and demonstrate mathematics
proficiency.
According to the 1979 motion, students could
meet the mathematics proficiency requirement by
satisfactorily completing a competency exam or
taking three courses from a list of specified
mathematics courses.
Davidson Soper, of the Committee on the
Curriculum, said the motion was "designed to
insure that graduates with B.S. degrees have at
least some knowledge of mathematics and is
analagous to the language requirement for a
bachelor of arts degree.”
Committee chairer Thelma Greenfield, auth
'-v or of the deference motion, said she presented
the motion in response to a University adminis
tration request.
Richard Hill, provost for academic affairs,
said the administration requested the re-vote on
the motion in light of the projected budget cuts for
the next biennium.
Hill said costs of hiring the additional
graduate teaching fellows to teach beginning
mathematics and language courses are estimated
at $74,000 by the biennium's second year.
"We’d have to cut positions in other depart
ments by $74,000 because they aren’t in our
budget," Hill said.
Noting that the estimates probably are con
servative, Hill added, "I really am skeptical about
the ability of the math department to handle the
increased number of students. You guys would
have classes of 200.” |
Math Prof. Lewis Ward doubted Hill’s figures i
and said he was uncomfortable about recanting
on the previously approved legislation.
George Struble, a computer and information I
science professor, agreed with Ward.
“I think the decision was a sound one,” he
said.
Concerned about quality loss of deference, I
Struble said, "I’m going to start voting against |
awarding degrees.”
But Senate member Dominic La Russo said |
he couldn’t see how approval of the motion would
damage the quality of B.S. degrees. I
"It may look good on paper, but are we really
talking about quality and, if so, what does that say
about the years when we didn’t have the
requirement?"
Architecture student Michael Prothe, also a
Student University Affnirs Board member, said the
requirement would aid architecture students,
whom he said often fail the structural and math
ematical sections of licensing exams.
The Senate couldn’t vote officially on the
other motion, which dealt with changes in the
course, cluster and procedural requirements for
graduation, because of a quorum loss during the
course of the 2Vi-hour meeting.
Wednesday’s meeting began with about 24
members — approximately half the total Senate —
and ended with 17 members.
According to the Senate roll call sheet, al
most one third of the Senate members failed to
show up to at least three of the last six Senate
meetings.
However, the Senate did take a straw vote of
8-7 against the motion. There were two absten
tions.
In other business, Senate members approved
the election of English Prof. John Sherwood as
Senate secretary.
The University Assembly will meet Wednes
day at 3:30 p.m. in Room 150 Geology to vote on
the motions. I
Law school will host
resources conference
A conference on Oregon’
coastal resources featurin
Rep. Jim Weaver, D-Ore., will b
held at the University law schoc
April 11.
“The Oregon Coast in th
1980s” will include panel dis
cussions on energy resourc
development, fisheries man
agement and coastal planning.
The conference will focus oi
Oregon's coastal resources am
the impact of the Reagan Ad
ministration’s policies on them.
The keynote address will b(
delivered by Robert Knecht
acting director of the Office o
s Coastal Zone Management,
g Other speakers include Peter
e Friedman, staff council to the
il U S. Senate Commerce Com
mittee, law school dean Derrick
5 Bell and Weaver.
The conference is sponsored
3 by the Ocean Resources Law
Program and Land Air Water, a
environmental research com
i mittee of law students,
j An $8 registration fee will be
charged.
For further information, con
i tact Land Air Water at 686-3828
, or the Ocean Resources
f Program at 686-3845.
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