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For more information, please contact [email protected]. tglyillaineCampus September 13, 1984 student neuspaper since 1875 'Thursday, XCV no.V111 The University of Maine at Orono decision Council of Colleges'• is final on grading system said the GSS did con- administration will do what you Ritzi by Kerry Zabicki voluntary system, and ask7 sider the Staff Writer was very divided he senate does have in- the senate Although the student body. the issue. Labbe said he fluence but not the authority to about voted against a plus/minus of the plus/minus the administration and was in favor grading system last spring, the override it was more ac- the council of colleges!' said system because Council of Colleges instituted a the traditional Webster, student senator curate than voluntary program this semester David "It (the optional plus/minus method. and the General Student Senate may hurt the borderline system) will stay in effect until "It for both may be powerless to change the students!' he said. "But :e facilities the faculty changes its mind!' minus situation, said three student been given a free ride so said Rodney Labbe, student they've of senators. I think it will benefit mited number senator. "The senate probably far and small "The students exercised their students than it will hurt!' ng in a will not mount a campaign more right to reject an unfair grading higher student was and meal against the system:* he said. "The and system last year!' said Edward dragged down to the same level ni room "The The student body voted down Colvin Cutting, student senator. as a minus student with the old Gallant, the issue nf a mandatory student government constitu- students and minus has a varied "It may hurt the borderline international students, but they've been given a free ride :ility for both male so far and I think it will benefit more ee bedroom unit. Ritzi itchen facilities. students than it will hurt." — Steve in he said. brooke Hall or York tion gives the students the piusiminus grading system system: said Labbe said he does not agree ork Complex Office. power to reject any grading the spring of this year, with the voluntary nature of the _ire Central Office. policy they feel is not fair!' Cutting. grading procedure. "It should Article I, section 4 of the The senate did not consider a voluntary be mandatory or it shouldn't GSS constitution states that the possibility of to. could exist at all: he said. 4 students have "The right to a system where professors 1-Residence Richard C. Bowers, executive fair and unprejudicial grading choose to remain with the tradi- the follow- convert vice president and vice- welcomes and counseling system:' tional grading system or Cut- president for academic affairs dence: Steve Ritzi, student govern- to the plus/minus system, said "It was passed by the COC York Hall ment president, said "The ting said. Hall last semester and accepted by .cky, Knox policy does not negate the im- Somerset Hall the president late this summer!' ran, portance of the constitution. "The idea of a voluntary Hancock Hall "It was a very close vote. The ich, The constitution guarantees cer- system did not even make it to Hall faculty was quite divided about ands, Oxford tain things, like the right to pro- the floor of the GSS because it B.C.C. it: he said. anowsky, test an administrative move, but was thoyght to be so absurd!" he a program (see GRADES page 2) lence is nothing guarantees the said. he educational aspects ails with the academic $1 million faculty-in-residence Exceeds family in a residence record ith the students and in- Alumni donations set ns in a myriad of ways. who graduated from percent, which is also restricted, 1 helps students with by Peg Warner employee of Maine at according to the report. as, attends hallicom- Staff Writer the University $100, so the The report showed the elops special programs Annual alumni donations Orono donated $300. restricted money is also divided :enerally interacts with broke the $I million mark for company contributed raised is put to among the Alumni Association all and complex. the first time this year, said the The money According to the Endowment (10 percent), director of the General Alumni various causes. ge to Open the campaign, academic scholarships (8 per- Association. GAA's report on Maine, approx- cent) and class accounts Resources, Brokerage, Robert Holmes said the A Million for Library, will open this 55 percent Of the con- (4 percent). previous high was reached last imately used are are restncted dollars, Unrestricted dollars are ier 16. The hours year, when donations amounted tributions - 9 p.m. — usually for administrative services and RSDAY, 3 p.m. to $704,000. The leap from that which are earmarked for a specific fund-raising (15 percent), the a program that helps to SI million was the by the donor — amount 45 percent "Maine Alumnus" magazine with the appropriate largest ever, he said. use. The remaining and can (12 percent), alumni clubs on campus. It has Holmes added that the are unrestricted dollars, they are (4 percent), reunion weekend udying and study skills University of Maine is the first be used wherever own (4 percent), alumni and student s to identify their land-grant university in New needed. amount of awards (2 percent), e Brokerage maintains England to reach SI million in The greatest is spent on undergraduate support (2 per- : resources on campus contributions. money, 21 percent, alumni the cent) and homecoming (2 per- students with various Most of the money — all but academic departments, arts, according cent), the report showed. s. For further informa- 5100,000 — came from private library and the Holmes The deadline for the cam- n O'Grady, Director, he said. The largest to A Million for Maine. sources, is paign was June 30. The SI was made by said the money, which contribution mark was reached donated restricted, is used for such million Elizabeth Noyce, who July 27 said Holmes. of things as equipment. New com- "about have an adequate 5100,000. She gave 550,000 to take con- puter terminals and increased "We're allowed that as part of a challenge in 30 the library are two of tributions with a June will be_houoted. which the GAA had to raise five seating in the ways in which money has postmark!' he said. $10,000 contributions. Holmes attributed the suc- ed. Private corporations donated been used, he said. learn at 2 or 3 in cess of this campaign to an in- waded by drunken the rest through matching pro- "You can't you finally creased effort to recruit ially quiet periods said Holmes. A com- the morning, when grams, said volunteers. Nearly 600 will donate a certain get a computer terminar pany in the volunteers helped this year, he an employee's alma Holmes. "You can't study 31" public property amount to said. donates library when you're sitting image occurs, the mater if the employee He said students volunteer dless of the stage shoulder to shoulder!' first. and because of potential job con- Holmes said one company, Athletic scholarships receive the second tacts. "It's attractive to be a e their welfare en- Exxon, will donate three times equipment of money, 16 (see MONEY page 2) an employee's contribution. An highest amount Specifically, the itoxicated person. 13, 19114 2 The Maine Campus. Thursday, September Pittsf (continued from page I) in do, •GRADES alternatives to the present voluntary that finally won the with "The argument would most like- PITTSFIELD hand of their intentions, but he also a more ac- system, a compromise The COC decided on a voluntary was that it would give Pittsfield man a professors would tell the students issue ly be the result, he said. because "it would not have pass- hoped of a grade,' he said. ex-girlfriend's al system going to be used. curate account said he believes the students mandatory,' he said, if the new system was help half the people Ritzi ed himself with 2 ed if it had been not know "It will probably in the way they are registrar, said Bowers said if a student did should have a choice ly he: Anton Mayer, associate and hurt hall,' he said. wounding which type of grading system was going is graded. "Upperclassmen should have the professors do not have to inform anyone voluntary nature of the system police said Wed, up to the student to ask The continue under the traditional to use the plus/minus to be used it was consensus among the option to George Rowe of their intent creating an unclear or to switch to the office has no list- the professor, said Ritzi. four point system wound to his he system. The registrars university community, said. the "If the students are concerned about consistent;' he plus/minus system:* he rived at the scene of which professors. plan to use "The system should be within a course they should ask students are given the same op- which occurred and which do not, anything is to answer a perceived need lithe system said.