College nightmare occurs:
Student barely survives
four finals on same day
By Frank Shaw
Of the Emerald
When Sue Bartz woke up on the first day of
finals week fall term, she faced the unenviable
prospect of taking four finals on the same day
Bartz, a junior majoring in computer science,
realized she had four finals — math, computer
science, literature and sociology — scheduled for
the same day about two weeks before finals week
and tried to get at least one of her professors to
change a final to a later date
She didn’t have any luck
"All my teachers were sympathetic about it,
but they still wouldn’t change the final,” she says
Bartz also spoke to the deans of two of the
schools, the offices of academic advising, student
services and the Registrar, and Bob Bowlin, dean
of students
All gave her the same message — they
thought it was a rotten deal, but there was nothing
they could do
"Everyone thinks you can petition to have a
final changed," Bartz says, "but I tried, and you
can't."
After talking to Bowlin "I just gave up,' she
says
Provost Richard Hill says the University's
policy is that exams will be given at the time they
are scheduled and suggests students check the
final schedules when registering for classes
Because of the University policy prohibiting
professors from giving finals or final projects
during dead week or any time prior to the
scheduled time, instructors are reluctant to post
pone the final time for students
“They're (the professors) damned if they do
and damned if they don't," says Hill
Marliss Strange, associate director of
academic advising, says students faced with this
problem should pick up their registration ver
ification from the Registrar's Office and take it to
the professors so they can prove their finals are all
on the same day
If the students can't arrange with the
professor to take the final later that week, they
should take an incomplete in the class and take
the final the next term Strange says she never has
known a professor to refuse this request
Mary Fulton, assistant to the head of the
mathmatics department, says Bartz's math final
was a common one, and all 400 or more students
Sue Bart7 survives an academic ordeal
in various sections of the math course took their
finals at the same time
In this type of case, she says, the math
department advises the student to contact other
professors and to change one of the other finals,
because it's easier to change the time of a final for
a class with fewer students
Fulton says if a student came to her and said
no other instructors would change the finals'
times, the math department would help contact
other departments
Bartz began studying eight days before finals
and says she was pretty well prepared for the the
tests Nevertheless, she says she could have done
better with more time to review between exams
"I think it definitely had an impact on my
grades," she says
If she had to do it all over again, Bartz says
she would start studying way ahead of time and
not waste her time trying to get her teachers to
change the times of her finals
From now on Bartz says she will be more
aware of when her finals are scheduled when she
registers for classes
Photo by Bob Bakei
Rule allows interest charges
A new rule allowing the
University to charge interest on
overdue accounts such as
housing contracts, deterred tui
tion and short term loans has
been enacted
In addition, several adminis
trative rules dealing with
student records, smoking areas,
and parking regulations have
been amended
The University can now
charge 9 percent interest on all
liquidated debts that are six
months past due unless the
contract specifies a higher rate,
up to a 12 percent ceiling.
Changing the computer sys
tem to deal with the interest
charge will cost the University
$10,000 The interest charge is
estimated to bring in about
$12,000 annually
An amendment to the student
records policy, requested by the
registrar, will help prevent fal
sification of student records by
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