ARIZONA
Breaches of anonymity on evaluations
reported.. .About a dozen student com
plaints citing breaches of anonymity
in U. of Arizona student evaluations
of courses and instructors has result
ed in a memo urging department
heads and deans to ensure student
privacy. “The validity of this process
is completely destroyed" if policies
governing anonymity are not fol
lowed, states the Nov. 21 memo from
Belestino Fernandez, UA associate
vice president for academic affairs
and interim director of the University
Teaching Center The memo states
that the complaints range from facul
t v weeding out negative forms to peer
ing over students’ shoulders as they
fill out forms. “The evaluations mat
ter more than students imagine,"
Fernandez said. They are used in
annual performance evaluations of
every UA instructor and play a role in
a professor receiving promotion and
tenure. No policy exists at UA regard
ing the evaluations. »Pila Martinez,
Arizona Daily Wildcat, U of Arizona
CALIFORNIA
Reverse discrimination? . . .The U S
Department of Education’s Office o!
Civil Rights is investigating the pos
sibility of reverse discrimination
against white applicants at U of
California, Berkeley, by maintaining
illegal quotas for specific minorities
The focus of the investigation will cen
ter on fall 19K9 first-year student
admissions to the College of Letters
and Sciences The complaint was filed
by a local computer expert Arthur
Hufter He compiled UC Berkeley
admissions statistics to establish a
pattern of discrimination against
white applicants by maintaining quo
tas for African Americans, Hispanics
and Filipinos, said Henry Her, execu
tive director of Chinese for
Affirmative Action UC Berkeley
Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman said
the university has not breached any
legal boundaries. “The undergradu
ate student body has a diversity
unmatched among campuses with
high academic standards,’’ he said
“Yet these achievements are not at the
expense of quality " ■ Allen Lue, The
Daily Californian, U. of California,
Berkeley
Sororities change bid policy .. Sorority
Rush at Stanford U will no longer
promise a bid to everyone who par
ticipates, following a 5-2
Intersorority Council vote in favor of
abandoning the system. Gamma Phi
Beta President Dawn McGuiness
said, “In the past, a sorority had to
accept a woman they didn’t like, and
sometimes both ended up unhappy."
Kari Murnane, Pi Beta Phi president
said the Pi Phis originally wanted to
preserve guaranteed Rush because it
was “nicer on the girl's feelings,” but
she thinks the unguaranteed system
“is more honest." McGuiness added
the new system is less elitist. “This
makes Rush a lot clearer, even
though it sounds elitist. In actuality
the old system was just as elite Now,
we’re correcting it by letting people
know what we really think." she said
■ dill Daniels, The Stanford Daily,
Stanford U
ILLINOIS
Undergrads lack basic skills . . .('oll. gr
undergraduates do not work hard
enough at their studies and lack basic
academic skills, according to a survey
of 5,000 college faculty members
More than two-thirds of the faculty
surveyed in the Carnegie Foundation
poll said teaching students skills they
should already know is often neces
sary Sixty-seven percent said college
standards have lowered. More than 50
percent favor stricter admission stan
dards. The survey found education
teachers the most aware of students
shortcomings Their responses dif
fered sharply from teachers in other
departments ■ Mark Gates, The
Northern Star, Northern Illinois l’.
NORTH CAROLINA
Play-Doh spells exam relief . . . Lav,
school students at the l of
Cincinnati who are stressed out from
studying for their semester final
exams can take a break and go play
in the law library's play room The
library has stocked a room with
games, toys, puzzles and Play Dob to
help students unwind, said Taylor
Fitchett, director of the library “We
noticed students were very frustrat
ed around exam time So to remedy
the student's frustration, the library
began to serve soft drinks, coffee and
candy. "It lsjust a stress reliever,” she
said "The students really love it ” ■
Sandy Wall, The Daily Tar Heel, I' of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
UTAH
Boycott doesn't deter interviewees . . .
Despite boycotts of Kxxon’sjoh inter
views bv some geology and geophysics
students at U. of l Ttah, one more pet
son interviewed than last year,
according to Administrative
Assistant Donna Thomas Boycotters
showed their displeasure at what they
felt was an ineffective response to the
Alaskan oil disaster Some students
said they didn't participate m the boy
cott because they felt Kxxon was not
at fault Graduate student David
Mason said, "If they offered me a job,
I'd take it If blame is put on anyone,
it is the oil industry for not pooling its
resources " ■ Heidi Sorenson, The
Daily Utah Chronicle, II. of I'tah
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