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WILLIAM BOYD
By JUDY SAM EL SON
LIFE Academics Editor
-] - A turn" around vote in Academic Senate
Monday evening, approved a time extension for final grade releases at semester end,
After nearly an hour of discussion,
Senators voted 17 to 16 against the proposal,  but  a  recount  was  called   and
'i members voted  20 to  17 in favor of
<, the proposal.
# Suggested in a letter to the Academic
! Senate by Hans Fettihg, assistant pro-
-- fessor of English, fhe original proposal
f gave instructors an extra four days for
i remitting grades. However, Senate mem-.
■'-, bers amended the proposal to two days,
■! sayirig this was adequate.
The Executive Committee referred the
letter to the Academic Admission, Standards and Degrees Committee for comment. The committee indicated a reluctance to judge the proposal saying
the system was proper but final analysis
should rest with Academic Senate.
Discussion in the Senate centered on
VVolume 51, Number 13
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Wednesday, September 29, 1971
City Clerk approves extra days
for voter registration campaign
" City Clerk Charles Deibel has given
Student Government the green light in
authorizing the extension of the voter
registration drive for today through Friday, according tcfjlm McBryde, ■
As an added incentive to encourage
registration, Student Government is offering a $50 prize to the dorm which
registers the greatest number of voters
during these three days.
"Pm very pleased with the results of
our registration thus far," McBryde said;
"We've registered over 3,000 students,
and if we could reach the 4,500 mark
(with this extension) we would have as
many voters registered on campus as
are registered in the city.
John Engler, State Representative from
the 100th District, voiced his support
of the project. •
"I'm very happy with the turnout in
the past two weeks," said Engler. "Fd
like to see another three days of good
student participation. A good follow-up
of the drive would be to initiate another
registration push in the spring,*'
Any student registered at the end of
Friday, OcC 1, will be eligible to participate in the municipal election Nov.
2, when two seats on the Mt, Pleasant
City Commission-will be filled from
among six candidates.
Mt. Pleasant City Manager William Bar-
rons doesn't expect any "major problems
we can't live with or work with" as a
result of the large number of students
registering to vote.
"The  potential  impact of these- new
voters is great,"  Barrens said, "but
they probably won't have a great interest
in local politics unless there is a specific ,
issue that touches them personally."
"Regardless of how and when they
choose to vote, however, they are entitled to be heard at the polls the same
as any other voter," he added.
Barrens said he thinks students will
change the complexion of some local
elections, but he feels the greatest impact may be that students with the power
of the ballot will have greater influence
on local officials than before.
For Deibel, the huge influx of new voters
means headaches of various kinds.
Although the turnout of students is
"about as expected," Deibel says the
cleifical work Involved in processing the
new registrations is a major problem
for his office.
He also will eventually have to draw
up new precincts because of the large
number of student voters in city precincts 5 and 6. State election law will
not permit him to change the precincts
in time for the Nov. 2 election.
Deibel said he decided to open registration booths on the campus in order
to process the large number of newly
franchised voters more easily.
Deputy registrars will be registering
students from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the
Maroon and Gold Room of the UC through
Friday afternoon.
ead line
deciding whether or not. students are
better served by receiving quicker grades
or better evaluated ones, according to
Caiman Levich, professor of physics.
Joyce Pillote, assistant professor of
philosophy said, "I am unfortunately not
in a discipline which I can give
multiple choice exams that can be corrected by machine.'.'
Mrs. Pillote added that it was virtually impossible to adequately evaluate
200 final essay exams under the present system- of time, which is 72 hours.
Under the new policy, they would have
120 hours to correct exams and papers
before computing final grades.
The adoption of the new proposal indicates that grades will not be distributed as quickly to students when the
semester closes.
"The concerns are toward students
wanting to know their grades. The time
gap seems long if someone wants to
know what that grade is," said William
Dunham, assistant registrar.
He pointed out that transfer students
and cancellations will be most effected
by this schedule change. It is imperative
for these students to know their grades
as quickly as possible to be accepted
into another university.
Dunham also said that this is not
a "typical" year because the last class
for this semester is December 18. With
the Inception of the new policy, final
grades will not be required until the
. 23rd which is a vacation day for faculty
and staff.
Grades, then, would not be tallied until
the 27th and ready for mailing two days
later. However, the mailroom will not
be available until the first week of January and student grades would finally
be mailed that week.
Dunham stressed that although grades
would, be coming out much later this
semester, generally several days delay
would be the most students can expect.
In other action President William B.
Boyd announced Senators would soon receive a new proposal regarding a degree
program for non-resident students.'
The purpose of this program is; to
provide those outside of the University
with family,, work, or financial commitments, an access to education.
It stresses flexibility and responsibility for developing groups and
individuals under the program as well
as self instruction. The plan also hope§
to provide for expansion of resources
and assessment work on degrees.
The Academic Senate will have the
information for discussion in their next
meeting in two weeks.
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seeks leave of absence
At Monday evening's meeting of fhe
Academic Senate, President William B.
Boyd announced that he will seek a leave
Student representative proposal
target of executive level criticism
By KATHY KULINEC
LIFE Administrations Editor
President William B. Boyd has expressed dissatisfaction over a proposal
to seat Student Body President Tim Horan
on-the Board of Trustees in an advisory
position.
The proposal, presented to the board
Sept. 15 by R. William Joyner, Mt. Pleasant
senior, asked trustee members to place
the student body president on the board
with dual realization that his seat would
be one of an advisory position with' the
right to attend all public and private
meetings and make 'recommendations to
the board.
"I'm not taking an anti-student govern-,
ment or anti-Horan stand," said Boyd,
"but seating one student on the Board
to advise members of students' needs
doesn't just happen to be the best method,"
He explained that he felt no one person could advise the board on as broad
a subject as' student needs on campus.
"How could the Board of Trustees act
on the suggestion of one student?*' he
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questioned; "No one faculty member
makes a statement for the whole academic
community."
"There are different student subcultures and different life styles. The
board ought to deal with a highly developed system that tells all the nuances
of student life."
"" Boyd said plans are being formulated
through Albert S. Miles, vice president
for student -affairs, to set up a student
need section in the Student Affairs Office.
The center will use scientific information
gathering measures to really explore
and find out the needs of students.
"When an issue comes up, we will
have the mechanical means to see how
students perceive their needs," said Boyd,
ihis seems to me to be a more rational means of presenting student needs
to the board. However, this doesn't mean
we will set up a system and forget
student government. It represents one
of the important sub-cultures on campus
and. will be an important part of the new
system."
Commenting on the drive to place stu
dents on the Board of Trustees in a
voting capacity, Boyd said the real fight
^ for student political power was in Lansing
and not on campus, "If something is
declared wrong (conflict of interest).
It is wrong to find some manipulative
way to get around prohibition rule,"
he said, speaking-^of the -Michigan constitution and attorney general's ruling
of a conflict of interest by students
serving on their own Board of Trustees,
"Students can have an enormous influence on the Board of Trustees. Last
J year a group iof students worked in conference with the Board on the life styles
proposal, and the results can be seen
this year."
„ "Tim Horan and Vice President Miles
are working to set up a partnership
to plan a good program with not only
the board but also the faculty," said
Boyd. "Our differences on representation
will have to be resolved, and I know
we can do it. If we fall into conflict
it will be a failure of human communication."
of absence  from his job as president
for the entire month of November.
Boyd said he hoped to "drop off the
face of the earth for a while'4 to rest
and do some reading.
He  said he had discussed his plans
formally with the CMU Board of Trustees
^and  expected  it to take formal action
on his request at its October meeting.
Boyd plans to use his absence from
the campus for rest and to do preliminary
work required by his recent appointment
to an 11-member national commission
on Academic Tenure in Higher Education.
"I find that normal vacations in this
position tend not to be vacations at all," ,
he said.  "The only way to get entirely
away from my responsibilities is through
a leave of absence." .
Boyd said that his duties with the
academic tenure commission require substantial homework not directly connected
with his position as president and that
he hopes to' complete the commission's
reading during Ms leave.
His appointment to the commission
was announced earlier this month. The
commission is sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and the
American Association of University Professors and is supported by a Ford
Foundation grant,
Boyd, 48, became president in 1968.
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