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on seniors; the problem ol logistics
— where you schedule ihe finals and
when; and the problem of interrupt
ion of classes and extra coordination
challenges for the faculty.”
Loin Black, chairman of the Stu
dent Senate’s Academic Af fairs < om
mittee, said later that he could un
derstand how the student proposal
would create logistical problems for
faculty since it would require profes
sors to make two sets of finals. Such
a requirement would place increased
demands on then workloads —
which aie already heavy at the end
of the semestei he said
Lm convinced there s no such
thing as a fair test and in try to come
up with a iesi dial’s equitable fm one
group ant/another test equitable for
anothei group— it’s just hard to do
something like that ’ Black said. I
talked to some professors that sug
gested it takes 16 hours to prepare a
good test. It can take two solid days
to prepare a good test
“It takes more than two times the
amount of time to prepare two be-
. cause then you have to make sur e ev
erything is fair between them, as
well.”' , * fv
Students suggested as an alterna
tive ^cj,.their original proposal thai
dead week be made truly dead, so
that seniors could take finals during
that week. The faculty was more re
ceptive to that idea, since they would
not have to juggle senior finals and
undergraduate classes at the same
time. But questions were raised
about the number of days that stu
dents legally are required to be ii
class.
Shuimvay said after the meeting
“I think it’s probably not legal. If wc
were to add a week, then that could
be a distinct possibility. My expecta
tion is that that would not be a satis
factory option (to students).”
The original proposal brought to
the meeting by the Faculty Senate
would require that all students take
finals Monday through Friday of fi
nals week, and then that seniors
graduate Friday and Saturday with
out diplomas in their tubes at the
commencement ceremonies.
However, students pointed out
that it has been a long-standing tra
dition at A&M that seniors receive
their diplomas when they walk
across the stage. This tradition has
kept attendance at the graduation
ceremonies at around 92 percent
among seniors, Black said.
“Our concern is that we want
graduation ceremonies to remain in
their present form.” Black said ifter
the meeting. “We want them With
their niagu with the diploma in the
tube for all students, the inn gntv of
the ceremony.’
As a compromise Shiumvav sug
gested that a system could be estab
lished whereby faculty could certify
students eligible foi graduation
prior to completion of finals
' At the time that the registrar has
to have a decision,” Sfiumway said,
“then all faculty who have seniors in
classes whose finals have not been
graded but who will clearly pass the
course regardless of their perfor
mance on the final will Certify that to
the registrar ”
The problem with this alternative,
students said, was two-fold. First
there would be some students at
graduation with diplomas and some
without. Second, those students who
had not previously been certified for
graduation could walk across the
stage and then find out later that
they really did not graduate.
Shumway estimated that less than
10 percent of graduating seniors
would be in that situation, but Hays
said that a proposal is not acceptable
to him if it puts any students in that
situation.
“We, as students, contend that no
mattei how large or how small that
proportion is, that it’s not good. ’
Hays said. “The faculty in turn say,
‘Well, that’s only a small portion of
that way. We are all students here as
one, and we re not going to say, ‘Oh
well, that 5 percent or 10 percent,
that’s their problem,’ ”
Shumway agreed that the absence
of diplomas in the tubes at gradua
tion would adversely affect atten
dance at the ceremonies, and that
the integr ity of commencement —as
the students define it — would be
compromised by the faculty’s pro
posed schedule.
However, tire faculty members
aie looking a< graduation from a dif-
ferc nt perspective, Shumway said
T lie facultv do not perceive the
graduation ceremony itself as quite
as important as it is seen bv stu
dents’’ he said
Another proposal was made bv
Murray Milfoid, a lormei speaker
of the Faculty Senate in an effort to
resolve the concerns voiced by stu
dents and faculty. The proposal
called for seniors taking finals on
Monday and Tuesday and perhaps
Wednesday of finals week, and the
preceding Saturday il necessary. In
order to accommodate such a plan,
finals would have to be scheduled
with a bias toward scheduling upper-
division class finals on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
The proposal was met with eager
acceptance by both sides, but faculty
members still favored their compro
mise with the certification compo
nent over Milford’s proposal.
“All the faculty there felt that
(Milford’s proposal) was a superior
alternative to the current schedule,”
Shumway said, “(but they) stilt fa
vored the certification procedure.”
At the meeting both groups
agreed that either proposal would be
better than the plan that is currently
in place, but afterward both Black
and Hays said the certification pro
posal is not an acceptable solution.
“Before we go to Dr. Shumway’s
(proposal), we would more than
likely go back to this schedule right
here,” Hays said. “Dr. Shumway’s
proposal will never fly through our
group.”
The faculty and students said they
would submit the proposals to their
respective Senates for approval.
Shumway said he will suggest to
the Executive Committe of the Fac
ulty Senate Wednesday that open
meetings be held so that all faculty
members’ opinions can be heard.
Black said he would like to do the
same for concerned students if time
permits.
Whatever students decide, how
ever, will be handed back to the Fac
ulty Senate, Black said.
■Shumway said there is a chance
that an alternative finals schedule
could he implemented this May —
bur only i< both Senates can agree on
acceptable alternatives.
‘II ii turned out that after all the
hearings wen held that the .students
say dial the only one of those three
options that they view as an im
provement ove*r the curient sched
ule is the one that has separate* se
nior finals and if the faculty said that
the only one that we view as an im
provement is the* certification, then
we’re hack to the same problem,” he
sail!
“But 1 think it s very, very possible
that once all the information is xn,
that both groups will view both alter
natives as an nnprovenie.nl.. he said.
“They may rank them different, but
at least we’ll have a couple of alterna
tives that wil; be regarded as an im
provement ovex the current plan,
and we can make those recommen
dations to the president and let them
decide on administrative grounds
which one they’re going to choose
from.”
Shumway is optimistic that a new
plan could be in place bv May, but he
emphasized that time is of the es
sence
If it appears from the meetings
and from discussion in both Seriates
that there is strong consensus that
your students under that plan that *T ere ait ‘ alternatives that are supe-
will have to do that.’ nor to the current one, I think it’s
“It seems that we’re sacrificing the Possible, he said,
majority to ensure that this minority Black agreed that the possibility
of students doesn t have to endure exists for a new schedule in May and
that. But we, as students, don t feel echoed Shumway’s sense of urgency.
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