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. "Why not put it on the ballot and let
students decide for themselves?”
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