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Show U Senate says just one more time on giving students CLEP test credit R DAkl wit-..,. . By RON MITCHELL Chronicle Staff A compromise by members of the Umversity Senate Monday gave students one more chance to take the CLEP test before credit is suspended pending a thorough evaluation of the testing program. 5 The senate approved a compromise motion to allow the December and January CLEP tests to be held under the present guidelines with a 90-day suspension of credit for the test beginning after the January test. This will give the Credits and Admissions Committee time to study the present "cutoff" scores for credit. Controversy concerning the CLEP test began after a petition was submitted by the Department of History to the Academic Vice President's Office requesting a study of the testing procedures. The Department of History was concerned, according to Dr. Philip C. Sturges chairman of the department, because credit in history was being given without any consultation with the department in which the credit was being given. So far, over 2200 students have taken the tests and have received over 30,000 quarter hours of credit, thus saving the students nearly $1 million in tuition. Extreme viewpoints were presented at the senate meeting in the form of alternative motions. One such motion asked for per od of r during the same wol . 6 WaS that the committee ! (Sf a Pedent of changing cutoff ,nes a, any time during the testing year creating a "floating cutoff." The CLEP tests are given in five academic categories, costing $15 for one to all five of the categories. A maximum of 48 hours of cred.t can be given, including exemption 'or the entire general education curriculum. Students interested in taking the January test may sign up in the Counseling Center m the Annex. Deadline for registration is Jan. 7. The senate also unanimously decided to make it publicly known that student use of Termpapers Unlimited, a company that writes termpapers that recently set up a branch office in Salt Lake City, is prohibited by the Student Code Article XI, section A. Article XI (Proscribed Conduct) begins "The following conduct is proscribed and upon violation of such proscriptions a student shall be subject to one or more of the sanctions specified in Section 12.05 (of the Student Code). However, it is expected that the more severe sanctions of suspension and expulsion will be imposed sparingly and only for more extreme or aggravated violations or for repeated violations. ." Section A, number 2, refers to companies such as Termpapers Unlimited, according to the senate. It states " 'Plagiarism' means the appropriation of any other person's work and the unacknowledged incorporation in-corporation of that work in one's own work offered for credit. Number 3 carries this on further: " 'Collusion' 'Collu-sion' means the unauthorized collaboration with any other person in preparing work offered for credit." It was decided that to make any stiff regulations now would not be advisable since detecting and proving the use of the service is very difficult. So the regulation would be virtually unenforceable. However, they felt a warning that present regulat ions already cover this practice would be appropriate. Other action by the senate included approval of a nine-member committee to draft a "Code of Faculty Responsibility" similar to the ''Student Code of Rights and Responsibilities" made last year. The committee consists of Law Prof. Lionel H Frankel, chairman; Dr. Jack II. Adamson, professor of English; Dr. Peter C. Appleby, associate professor of philosophy; Dr. Wayne S. Brown, associate dean of the College of Engineering; Dr. Susan O. Gustavus, assistant professor of sociology; Dr. D. Keith Reed, assistant professor of mathematics; Steven H. Cunn, law student and former ASUU president; Lester R. Emmet, teaching fellow in English, and Walter A. Klinger, a senior majoring in geology. immediate suspension of credit followed by the study while the other asked for a study with no suspension whatsoever. Dr. Jerry R. Anderson, academic vice president and chairman of University Senate, pointed out that immediate suspension of credit would result in several ' legal and moral questions. First, 200 to 300 students have already paid $15 for the December tests under the understanding that they could receive credit. Second, to stop after the December test would be an injustice to students who have considered con-sidered taking the test and have not yet got around to signing up for it. December test registration is already closed. Thus students who have not taken the test may still sign up for January and receive the same chance for credit as the others who have taken the test previously have had. The main argument against the continuing |