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.
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"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.
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