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Show U Senate votes, says nay to plan ending finals week in the procedural area of the code. Several members expressed that they support most of the responsibilities included in the code but do not approve of the procedures set up by the code when these responsibilities are met. It was decided that provisions and procedures will be discussed separately so these hassles can be ironed out. Students on the senate also pointed out the code would be helpful to students since it would set up what actions a student can take when his professors are not following his responsibilities to his students. One student added that the code would make it necessary for all professors to live up to the responsibilities since they themselves them-selves will create them. by RON MITCHELL Chronicle Staff A proposal to abolish test week was once again defeated by the University Senate Monday, but this time without the lengthy arguments which have usually accompanied this proposal in the past. The proposal would have increased in-creased class days for the 1973-74 school year by four days but would allow fall quarter to begin one week later and spring quarter to end one week earlier with a one-day increase in-crease in the length of the Christmas vacation and spring vacation. Hurts a minority Jerry Anderson, academic vice president, explained the lack of debate saying "It's been over-debated." over-debated." He said that since the proposal will hurt a substantial minority (i.e. departments that give The senate also went on record as "favoring in principle the adoption of a Faculty Code of Responsibility." A code prepared by the senate's Committee on a Code of Faculty Responsibility was accepted as a working draft of the code and the senate will begin substantive consideration of the code at a special meeting to be held Dec. 14. Faculty code perused Professor Arvo Van Alstyne of the College of Law, chairman of the Faculty Tenure and Promotions Committee, told the senate the reasons for a code of this type is to clarify public misconceptions of academic freedom and tenure. Vice president Anderson said he felt such a code would allow the University to explain to the public the standards a faculty member must meet in order to teach at the University. "At present we cannot tell them the standards and it is not departmental finals would not have a day in which to give these finals), the status quo seems to be the easiest way to proceed. A survey taken by the dean of admissions and registration, Franklin L. McKean, showed that 53 percent of the faculty were not opposed to the abolishment of final test week, but a substantial minority of 43 percent were opposed. op-posed. Professors can ignore test week As to. whether this proposal's defeat will make any change in plans to professors who dislike the idea of a final test week, the survey seems to show it won't. The survey shows that in Spring Quarter of 1972, 43 percent of the professors did not give a comprehensive final ovaminatinn. the best practice to point to specific professors who have been forced to leave the University because they haven't met all these standards," stan-dards," he said. He indicated that the public does not realize that certain standards are met and that professors are often forced to leave the University if these standards aren't met. Code justified Van Alstyne added, "The public feels tenure means a lifetime appointment ap-pointment to teaching with no form of recourse for the public." It was also brought out that with a code the University would also find it easier to justify actions not covered by the code or rights specifically given by the code. Major objections to the code are |