| Show Page 6 Monday Nov 18 1974 No communication on dorm hours causes confusion Due to an apparent lack of communication between USU students and the USU administration the coeducational visitation hours at East High Rise and Richards Hall were cut then changed again last week According to administration officials the dormitory councils must decide each year on dorm hours then have those approved by Claude J Burtenshaw vice president for student affairs But according to an ASUSU student government resolution which was passed last June and which student government officers say was approved by Burtenshaw a new rule allowing dorm councils to forgo repititious voting each year if they are satisfied with the preceeding year’s hours was in force However Burtenshaw said he did not approve such a rule Nolan ASUSU Johnson Executive Vice President said that the resolution was passed by the Executive Council and by Dean Burtenshaw This view was confirmed by Russell Hawkins academic vice- - president who also feels that the problem has been overemphasized “Everything will be back in order once the dorm councils have voted” said Hawkins Allen Pogue head resident at East High Rise said that when he came to the dorm in September it was his understanding that the visitation hours from the previous year were still in effect 10:30 pm Curfew However last Tuesday Lee Osborne assistant director of housing informed Pogue that since the dorm council had not voted on new hours this year a 10:30 pm curfew was to take effect immediately Pogue said Voted 24 Get 2 am Thursday East High Rise residents voted to ask for 24 hour visitation Pogue said with about 250 students participating in the of that vote and about 24 hour number requesting visitation On which that body has no authority Pogue said that Burtenshaw Taggart “I with 2 talked the dorm of noon hours to over James said okayed president am since about 50 of the who said it would take some He said that the resolution was residents participating in the doing” to change the present then taken to Staters Council vote requested those hours policy Burtenshaw said Dennis James ASUSU athletic consisting of student officers Prior to the vote Burtenshaw said that he would not approve 24 vice president says that when Taggart Burtenshaw and other hour visitation unless he could be the present school year started it members of the USU administration shown that nearly all students in was the ASUSU Executive the university dormitories Council’s understanding “that it wanted it He said this was the was okay to allow dorm James said that body acts as a case because 24 hour visitation by legislation to last until another for action initiated by women in the men’s dorms could council ruled otherwise later” student officers and the USU James said the student officers administration infringe upon the privacy of some understood that this rule would residents Burtenshaw said that last take place as of this year James said that the ASUSU spring he rejected an ASUSU Executive Council now plans to Recommend to Administration resolution calling for dorm confer with its advisor Val policies to be set by the dorm Christensen to see where the On June 3 the Executive councils then retained year after communication gaps exist betCouncil passed a resolution which ween student year unless a future council government and the decided to rescind them recommended the administration administration Burtenshaw said that he had allow dorm legislation to last He said the council then plans talked with student government until rescinded by future dorm councils to decide what action to take If officers who said they didn’t A resolution pertains to things the council decides to revive the want to press the issue He also said he discussed the which student government thinks issue then it will again take it to issue with president Glen L should happen on campus but Staters Council James said Statistics show that grades wiil during Spring Quarter History society meet improve quarter two-thir- If The history honorary society Phi Alpha Theta will sponsor its first program of the 1974-7- 5 academic year tomorrow at 7:30 pm in the Business Building Lounge This first program is desiged to answer many of the questions that history majors and prospective majors may have concerning career opportunities in the tieid or nistory ueone Petersen and Paul Murray of the placement office are scheduled to speak and answer questions :oncerning placement All interested students invited PRESIDENT GLEN L TAGGART STATEMENT REGARDING USU INSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL President Taggart released a statement to Student Life for publication in its Friday November 15 issue Inosmuch as Student Life chose not to print the statement in its entirety as submitted and declined to publish it in a subsequent issue and out of concern for communication with the students it has been determined necessary to purchase this ad to present the entire statement First students should know that the Institutional Council did not discuss at all the Richard Hall - High Rise visitation hours as reported in Friday's Student Life They concerned themselves with broad policies only and not specific details The text of the statement prepared earlier by President Taggart and submitted to Student Life follows: are could be your grades this better Just wait until spring Statistics show grades are better then Last spring men and women's composite G PA was 1 0ft3 over winter's average of 2985 Karl G Lambert registrar at Admissions and Records said ''It seems to be a national trend The good weather brings good grades" he said Women's averages were up from 3096 in winter to 3152 in spring Men 'followed with 2985 and 3014 in winter land spring respectively One reason for these statistics is that by spring most of the scholastically poor students have dropped out Lambert said Pauline L Clawson records in Admissions and Records supervisor pointed out that 147 students com pletely withdrew from both their individual college and general education units as of spring quarter "Some students gave pertinent reasons such as financial problems" she said "but others dropped and listed only 'personal reasons'" By the end of spring 246 students were on scholastic probation and 48 were suspended from their individual colleges Ms Clawson said "Those on probation fell 12 points below a "C" average" she said "They stay on probation until their grades are brought up to a "C" average however they can be eligible at any time for suspension" These probationary students are voluntarily counseled by their advisors and those suspended from their colleges have more extensive seling she said coun- STATEMENT have become increasingly concerned that much misunderstanding and unnecessary anxiety have emerged recently regarding the USU Institutional Council’s inquiry into the status of certain policies and practices of the University In the discharge of the Council's legal responsibility and accountability to the State of Utah it regularly initiates approves revises reviews and monitors the policies which direct all of the functions of the University It was in the spirit of this change that on October 12 1974 the Institutional Council requested that the administration provide it with information regarding the University's smoking policy student newspaper publication policy student housing regulations and dress standards The Council raised these questions for purposes of review and evaluation of the policies and practices in these four areas It was not the Council s purpose or intent in raising these questions to impose arbitrary rules on the students Members of the administration met with the Institutional Council Tuesday November 12 1974 in executive session and reported the information requested After their reports the InI stitutional Council discussed each issue and concluded the following: (1) The smoking policy of the University is appropriate in its effort to recognize the rights of both smokers and The Council concurred in the policy when it was established in 1972 and concurs in it now The Council renewed its directive to the administration to solicit the understanding and support of all members of the University community to insure the proper awareness adherence to and enforcement of the spirit and practice of the policy (2) The Publications Board should carefully review and understand the bylaws under which it operates and should fully perform its function as therein set forth (3) The Institutional Council concurs in the current procedures for the formulation of student housing regulations and urges conscious cone am for protection of the privacy of dormitory occupants in the extablishment and enforcement of these regulations (4) The University does not have nor does it plan to institute a formal dress code The Council did urge that students voluntarily consider propriety and good taste in this matter The USU 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