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Class drop deadline intended to help students, faculty plan By DenHe Clifton Emerald Reporter Three weeks into every term panic-driven University students race to Oregon Hal! to drop unwanted courses with a fee of SB per course to prevent the dreaded "W" from ap pearing on their transcripts. After another three weeks, the rush begins again as more students stand in line to drop courses, accept the “\V” over a failing grade to maintain a satisfactory grade point average This term's deadline to drop classes with out a "W” is April 18. and the deadline to drop classes with a "W" is May 12. Wouldn't it be better if University stu dents didn't have to worry about these dead lines? Stanford University apparently thinks so For more than thirteen years. Stanford's students have been allowed to drop classes without a fee up until 24 hours before finals, and no indication of withdrawal appears on their transcripts. According to Stanford assistant registrar |oy Parker, their school does not experience any problems with their drop system. ''Students simply file the drop card avail able at most universities, and there's no lee be cause they're paying pretty stiff tuition." she said, adding that the process of deleting stu dents' names from computer class lists is very simple. "I don’t see why the program (ain’t be adopted at other universities." Parker said. "It does not seam to present any problem with faculty or administrators here." Moreover, the University of Washington has a similar withdrawal program available to freshman and transfer students who are com pleting their first year. This "preemptory drop" program allows them to drop classes until the last day of in struction. according to UW Registrar Assistant Amy Mocker. "It gives the students that are now here a chance to get used to the deadlines in the sys tem,” Mocker said. "It works really wall here, and I think it's a fair system." University associate registrar Kate Johnson said such a drop system easily could la* set up in the computer system "The issue is not a matter of whether it can technologically be done." she said. "It's an issue of what the University faculty sets as standards for the University." loseph Hynes, vice-provost for academic personnel and Knglish professor, said the problem with extending the drop deadline is "accommodating students" and faculty. "People hanging on in a class block (he way for serious students who care and need the course to graduate." he said, adding that faculty also should not have to deal with stu dents w'ho don’t care about doing Ihe work "Serious students know what they’re go ing to do. and then do it,” Hynes said "There ought to be a reasonable time after which those students should have a chance." In addition, physics Professor Marvin Ci rardeati said a later drop deadline would ere ate more work for faculty. "It s a lot of work for the professor to grade the papers and it’s not really fair to ihe faculty to have to do that." he said. Provost Norman Wessells. formerly Stan ford's dean of arts and sciences, said he be tieves the students' abuse of Stanford's with drawal program has contributed to their grade inflation problem. "Students there sort of have the foaling that they're so smart that they can't lie a I) or a 0." he said "The high CPA is part high quali fy. hut there's just not that many C’s and IPs handed out." However. Sally Humaknr. a senior studs ing organizational behavior at Stanford, said the withdrawal system is not abused bv the students. i think it allows tor a lot more indepen dence. I like not having a rule to guide inv de cisions in my classes." Hatnakur said. "It teaches students more responsibility and that's a part of growing up." University sophomore Aaron Hopkins, a pre-mod major, said students often are forced to drop classes, and they should be allowed to drop without penalty throughout the term. Dix responds to law student complaints Rep. David Dix (D-Eugene) is prepared to compromise on changing the name of the name of the University’s law school to the Wayne L. Morse School of I.aw, a legislative assistant to Dix said Wednesday. Dix announced plans to move the hill back to the House Education Committee for amendments when it comes to the House floor April 17. The House judiciary Committee vot ed on the bill last Friday. Nate Garvis, an Oregon law student and intern in Dix's of fice. said the problem of renam ing the law school was not so much in memorializing Wayne Morse, but rather the deletion of the moniker "University of Oregon" from the school’s name. mw- *r BMBM ® 44** ttftt.i Oriental Buffet Lunch Downstairs & Try Our Dinner Upstairs Hours: Downstairs MThllOO 7 OO F S* I' 00 4 3C Closed Sundays Hours: Upstairs Su Th 4 30 10 00 F Sa 5 00 10 30 "The law school has a valu able nationwide reputation and name recognition that would be jeopardized by a name change, hut I believe that students are not against memorializing Morse," Garvis said. "Most (University law) students sup port naming the law school building the Wayne Morse 1-ivv Center.” !)ix said he’d make sure the amendments would make clear that the name of the law school would remain the same while the name of the law building would lx? changed according to students' suggestions. C.irvis added. Many University law stu dents have signed a petition opposing renaming the law school Dix said he was concerned about Iho issues raised by law sludnnts and assarted it was never bis intention In minimize tiie marketability of student law degrees, but rather to mm memorate Morse, law school dean from llt:n 41 and a for mer four-term senator Dix said the hill will be moved to the Mouse Moor after a work session II passed, it will be sent to the Senate, where Dix will request that the lull be held up until a Universi tv ad hoc committee can com ment on the name change Garvis said Dix believes that it is important that the lull he passed out of the House so that the University could gel a sense of where one side of the legis lature stands on this issue. CAMPUS HA9P D6S9GH Men & Women • Shampoo • Haircut • Blowdry AM Fof 0niy • Style EMU Ground Floor $10 N€XUS Call now lor an appointment! 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