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Show 1 UKt:: i9 1 INVISIBLE HARVEY GET INVOLVED, BANGERTER SAYS. IS HELD OVER. Republican gubernatorial candidate 'Norman Bangerter spoke to SUSC students last week, telling them that if it is change they want, they should use the system to accomplish that change. SEE PAGE 3. invisible Harvey the rabbit with a penchant for making people laugh, has been held over. Critic Lanai Greenhalgh says the play is hilarious despite a few flaws. SEE PAGE 9. THE STUDENT NEWS AND VIEWS OF SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE CEDAR CITY, UTAH v Evaluations help the faculty improve teaching quality The following is the first of a two-paseries by The Thunderbird staff writer Mark M orman detailing the teacher evaluation process and assistance offered to teachers who consistently receive poor evaluations. rt Every quarter SUSC students, faculty and administrators go through a process which to some is a neccessary evil, but to others is a highly helpful learning experience. The process is teacher evaluation, and in just a few weeks the students will once again be asked to evaluate faculty members on their performance during fall quarter. But what happens to the evaluation forms after students take the time to fill them out? Are they really read by the faculty? Are they taken seriously by the administration? Are they thrown in the trash can? These are some of many questions posed each quarter by students who really dont know what happens to the evaluation forms after they are filled out. According to SUSC Provost Terry Alger, a number of things happen to the forms after they are turned in. Alger said the evaluation process has been in operation campus-wid- e for three years, and was going on in individual areas of the college even before that. He said input concerning the performance of teachers is received from three different areas. The first area is the actual forms filled out by the students. Next the teachers peers, other faculty members in his own department or division, perform evaluations. Finally there is input from the department chairman or his supervisors. Additional input is received from students who write letters to faculty members or file official complaints or commendations with the administration. All of this information is taken and analyzed each quarter by the individual faculty member, his department chairman, and the deans of the various divisions. Then a compiled annual report is given to Alger for his analysis. According to Alger, all of this information and analysis is taken for two basic reasons. One reason is to give the administration a picture of factors involved in decisions dealing with the faculty, ranging from establishing tenure, leave, and rank, to the overall quality of the faculty members performance from an administrative viewpoint. The second, and according to Alger non-form- (continued on page 7) Student checks cause headaches for students, stores by Kon Kontogiannis The checkbook most students carry with them when they shop at local stores occasionally proves to be the source of frustration and difficulty. Sometimes students are required to go through a routine procedure in order to have their checks approved. . Marty Johnson, whos the drug manager of Skaggs Alpha Beta, said his store doesnt have much trouble with bad checks during fall quarter, mainly because students come loaded with money. But when spring quarter is about to end and students are getting ready to leave for home, quite a few students sign bad checks and the store has no way of tracing them. Skaggs policy concerning checks is three-fold- : A student needs to give a local address and a local phone number. For identification, the drivers license and a credit card must be presented. The student must not write a check for more than $5 over the purchase price. In the past, students have given their SUSC post office box number, which only made it harder for Skaggs to trace the holders of bad checks. Thats the reason Skaggs requests a local address when students try to cash checks. Skaggs will charge $7 to bad check passers to cover the paper work involved in the tracing people who write checks that bounce. Albertsons has a policy similar to Skaggs and they cut down on the number of student checks that are accepted in the month of June mainly because students leave for home and theres no way of tracing bad check passers. Lins Thriftway requires a local telephone number and a local address, as well as identification in order to cash checks. Once Lins becomes familiar with student customers theres no need for students to present their I.D. to cash their checks. All of the above stores and the other stores in town depend heavily on students for their business and they dont turn down too many checks. In the past, there have been some problems with bad student checks and the college has withheld the students transcripts until the bill was paid. '4 |