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Students receive opportunity to cast vote on ROTC issue By Deboran lanes (H Ihn Knwrald Students will have a chance to voice their opinions on the legit imacy of the ROTG’s cam pus location in the genera) election Wednes day and Thursday. Ballot Measure 8, an advisory measure submitted by the Student Senate, asks students if they Want to recommend to University Presi dent Paul Olurn that the affiliation between the University and ROTC be terminated. A student survey conducted winter term gathered little input on the ROTC issue, and Senate members are not satisfied with the results. V / . "Wb only got about SO responses, and it was no way scientific or representative of stu dent opinion." said Kandy MacDonald, a Stu dent Senate member. The Student Senate has voted on the issue 14 times since' 1087 in response to University biology Professor Bayard McConnaughey’s contention that allowing ROTC to operate on cainpuH implicates the University in the militarisation of the United States. Others con tend Kent’ discriminates against homosexuals and thereby violates the University’s equal op portunity policy. But this is the first time the student body will have a chance to vote on the issue, said Student Senate Chairwoman Donna Lawrence, who drafted the measure. “It bothers me that this issue comes up every year, but nothing ever gets done about it.” she said. Student input should be includ ed in the decision, she added. Although less than 20 percent of the stu dent body historically votes and the ballot measure is non-binding, its outcome could still haVe an impact, MacDonald said. Officials at the KOTO office said they were unaware the measure would appear on the ballot. "I don't think my laws even knows about this," said Richard Kdwards’ assistant professor of military science. He would not speculate on the measure's possible impact on the ROTC. After championing the cause for nearly two decades. McConnaughey is happy that students will now have their say. “I'm glad students art; thinking about it." he said. “But they don't have any military ex perience to reflect on, and 1 think some will just go along with the national trend." McConnaughey objects to the ROTC members’ argument that they should have the freedom to choose to participate in ROTC. “We taxpayers don't have the freedom to choose to pay for their scholarships to attend (college), later to pay their salaries and then their retirement pensions,” he said. MacDonald expects the issue will draw students to the polls. "It's a big issue It will hopefully produce a better voter turnout.” Ballot measure asks to extend the current add/drop deadline By Ikborah I)** Young Of the tmrrtfld Kxtending the deadline to drop classes will benefit students and have little effect on the University administration and faculty, said Don na 1-aw re nee, Student Senate chairwoman Lawrence and the Student Senate proposed Ballot Measure 2, an advisory measure, to gauge student opinion on whether to extend the Add/drop deadline from the present 10 school days to 20. Before the 1985 fall quarter, students had 15 school days after the quarter began to add or drop classes without notation on their transcripts. The period was shortened by one week at the recom mendation of the Academic Requirements Com mittee, which based its decision on faculty con cern over students entering classes three weeks after the quarter had begun, 1 .aw re nee said. University Registrar Herbert Chereck said another reason for changing the requirements was to bring informal department deadlines into con formity with University deadlines. A decision to change the period again is premature, Chereck said. “1 don't think the dust cloud has settled yet,” he said. "We haven't even completed the first year of the change.” Lawrence disagrees. "Overwhelmingly, students, no matter how organized, how neglect ful, don't like the deadline," she said. Under the current policy, students receive a "W" on their transcripts if courses are dropped after the two-week deadline. A "W" indicates withdrawal from the course and is neutral, Chereck said. Its purpose is to "maintain a history of the fact that (students) tried.and for whatever reason, chose not to finish that class." he said. Lawrence said the best compromise would Ire to keep the present 10-day deadline for adding classes, hut extend the deadline for dropping classes to 20 school days. When the Academic Requirements Commit tee changed the deadline, its members were "unresponsive to students’ concern about the drop deadline because they didn’t want to change the add deadline," l^wrence said. Changing only the drop deadline will serve student’s interests without affecting the interests of faculty or ad ministrators. she said. Chereck objects to the proposal because, “drop and add are part of the same activity, and you don't separate them.” He would like to see a defined period of time during which registration is finalized, but emphasized that "I and this of fice do not set policy. Policy is set by the faculty." The ballot measure is not binding, but will t>e user) as a recommendation to the University Assembly, which can extend the class drop deadline. A vote of approval for the measure will be a "strong statement of support," Uiwrence said. "There is no other time to get 3,000 students to give their opinion on something,” Lawrence said. 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