Senate to Decide on Probation Plan
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i Senate To Decide On Probation Plan By PAT GUROSKY than participating in other activities was "nonsense." Collegian Administration Reporter The Committee recommends that "academic warning TheThe University Senate will vote .today on a program be used simply to call to the student's attention the fact which would change the University's system of academic that he is not making adequate educational progress. The probation. warning would have no further purpose." I The program, formed by the Academic, Admissions A student whose grade point deficiency is six or more and Athletic Standards Committee of the Senate, would would receive academic warning, which would be regarded as- if : eliminate the present practice of barring students on pro- an official notification to the student that he is cur- bation from engaging in extra-curricular activities. rently failing to meet the minimum grade requirements f The Senate is scheduled to hear remarks by University toward graduation. President Eric A. Walker on an undisclosed topic. Another The plan also provides that 'the faculty of any college scheduled speaker, Joseph C. Flay, professor in the Col- could recommend that a student enrolled in that college be dropped by the —Collegian Photos by Pierre Betllclnl lege of the Liberal Arts, will present a resolution on aca- University or placed on academic warning A BE-IN is fairly common nowadays. A sit-in is old hat. demic honesty based on findings from a survey conducted if the student is, in the opinion of the faculty, not adapted And even love-ins are becoming passe. But who ever heard by his college. to the work of the college. of a tree-in? The 15 University students and three faculty The new plan to abolish academic probation is based Raymond Murphy, coordinator of men's activities, last members who took to the limbs yesterday may have begun on a system of grade point deficiency, which would exist week called the present system of academic probation "a a new craze. Above, University faculty members Joseph C. when the total number of grade points earned by a stu- rule out of the past which has lost its effectiveness." % Flay (left) and Stephen Schlow (at extreme right) discuss dent is less than the total number of credits earned multi- If approved by the Senate today, the new plan would tree-in strategy. plied by two. go into effect this September. i Depending on term standing, students would be per- mitted a certain deficiency. Beyond that, they would be 3d- Students Branch given a warning slip, giving them time to drop out and ii ] enter another college. Opinions Diffe r Drop Actions At the end of two or three terms, a student with a Out, Hold Tree-In grade deficiency of 21 or more would be subject to drop action by the University. At the end of the fourth , fifth or On Admissions By KATHY LITWAK Michael Bell, associate pro- fessor of English Collegian Copy Editor , said : "I sixth term this number would be 18, at the end of the By NANCY SCHULTZ added. happen to be a tree lover, and seventh, eight or ninth it would be 15, and at the end of A group of University faculty this is the first activist thing Collegian Staff Writer Commenting on the recent members and students perched I' the 10th, 11th or 12th it would be 12. trend ot a growing number of ve gotten into. In the past , T. Sherman Stanford, students entering liberal arts, in the limbs of 12 40-foot trees heve been cut down and The schedule for drop action would not apply to candi- dean maple trees on South Atherton of admissions, said yesterday Roose disagreed with Stan- people would stand around and dates for an associate degree, transfer students at the end ford's contention that the num- Street yesterday i protest of say, 'It's too bad we could not that the amount of available a borough plan to cut down of their initial term of enrollment, or students who have residence hall space and the ber of women in the college of stop it.' "overflowing" liberal arts greatly exceeds the the trees. "The borough council doesn't earned a 2.0 average or better in their previous term. conditions of the The borough wants to remove predominantly female colleges number of men. According to tell the people enough of what's The AAAS Committee states in its report to the Senate are the strongest limitations on Roose. the present enrollment the trees for a street widening going on. Maybe this at least anJ drainage project. The fell- that one serious shortcoming of the present system is that the number of women admitted is about 45 Ti men to 55% wom- will cause the council to give a en. ing of all the trees on the west little more notice to the people it does not provide for an evaluation of a student's progress to the University. side of Atherton was ordered "If more women were ad- He mentioned that the fields the next time they plan to cut at the end of each term. of study in liberal arts are as the first step in construc- down some trees." Bell added. mitted to the University, those tion plans which ."all for the Students could be dropped after each term in the pro- colleges having a majority of attracting more and more stu- At last night's borough coun- dents than in previous years. street to be widened from the cil meeting Richard Shine, « posed system. women students would prob- ably face serious problems in He said that there is a ten- College Avenue-Atherton Street arbitrator for the group, said Another shortcoming of the current rule is that it dency whereby the enrollment intersection south to Foster that he had met with Stephen coping with an increased fe- Avenue. ' focuses attention on the drop level averages (1.4, 1.6, 1.8), male enrollment," Stanford in liberal arts increases as the Schlow, instructor of theatre number of freshmen admitted , Fifteen students and three arts and spokesman for the rather than on a genuinely satisfactory level of perform- said. He said that this could OUT ON A LIMB or at least on their way arc two Uni- easily result in a shortage of decreases. versity students (top) who joined the tree-in. The pro- faculty members refused to group, at 1 p.m. yesterday. ance, that is the 2.0 required for graduation. Rena Foy. assistant profes- come down from the trees after Shine said that he "went over .faculty and facilities. testers and the curious gather beneath the trees (bottom) Restriction*-Eliminated , sor of education, has been workmen appeared until Mayor the drawings and processes in- However, Kenneth D. Roose, working to change the admis- as they attempt to gain support for their cause. The group Chauncy Lang agreed that lio volved and the .people against Tlj e committee proposes that the traditional view of dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, denied that the sions policy. She agrees with was protesiing_the cutting down of 12 maple trees on maples would be cut until after the construction were, able to I to Roose that colleges with > high the borough council'meeting see the UmltatKfffs"In Solved in -academic probation—with its^ restrictive approach stu- University" would be unable to . South Atherton Street. last night. dents be eliminated, since the committee concluded that the handle an influx of women stu- oercentage of women could ad- (Continued on page seven) just to an increase in female idea that students on probation spend time studying rathsr dents into the college. "If this 1 Were properly executed, an enrollment. She argued that the advanced allocation of funds "facilities should accommodate the admission and not vice from expected tuitions" could " cover the expense of enlarging versa. the faculty, Roose said. Roose explained that if the Arts Festival Stresses Creativity University increased its total enrollment by admitting more By DENNIS STIMELING ployed during the festivities this week. of exchange is to take place in a perceptive, construction and design aspects of the South women, the new tuition rev- 'Hot Line ' Collegian USG Reporter Underlying the theme of Creative Man sensitive manner." Allen Street Mall, as the program is flexible enues would be used to handle Fes- in this year's festival is the concept of This i.» the main purpose of the festival: enough to permit sizable changes in the The 1968 edition of the Spring Arts "Dadaism" the financial problems that got, underway- Sunday night as more , an art movement of the 1930's to improve the means of communication be- physical planning of the events." might arise He said that if tival which attempted to repulse and offend as creative man. Under Way than 7,000 University students jammed Rec- tween students and " " All materials for this construction will the enrollment should remain and many people as possible • through the art Through oil painting, watercolor paint- be provided without charge to the students the same and the ration should Collegian "Hot Line" began reation. Hall to hear the music of Simon medium. Garfunkel. ing, sculpture, and ceramics demonstrations by the festival and active participation is ex- be changed to an equal number accepting telephone calls This concept was visible on campus yes- which will take place on South Allen Street pected by Hare. last night as University stu- The festival, sponsored by the Under- terday as several " of men and women , serious graduate Student Government, continues to- artistic sculptures" were Thursday through Saturday the non-art- All events of the Spring Arts Festival problems would result.