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Show UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS MEWS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1999 'Policy' steps up BY GRACE BOYER SENIOR STAFF WRITER The much-debated first-day • drop policy is a marginal step closer to reality after Thursday's Faculty Senate meeting. After committee consideration , the senate approved a policy which gives the option to professors to drop students. but does not require the action be taken. This version of the policy is more stringent than that passed by the SUUSA. Earl Mulderink, assistant professor of social science and president of the faculty senate, said that he wants to take the policy back to the SUUSA Senate to see if it will have student support, before he takes the policy to the Deans' Council next month In its present form, the policy reads: "To ensure that as many students as possible are able to register for the classes they need, and to ensure th·at high demand classes serve as many students as possible, faculty senate proposes that faculty members be given authority to drop from their class rolls students who have not attended the first class session nor contacted the professor prior to the second class meeting. This would allow a professor to sign in students who are in need of and attending the class. "Students should not assume that by not attending a class they will automatically be dropped; therefore, it is the. responsibility of the student to complete the drop process for all classes not being attended.· Mulderink said that the effort to create such a policy has been · around a long time." A similar effort was launched last year by the faculty senate. without prior student support, and was not adopted by the Deans' Council. Should the SUUSA Senate approve the faculty senate version of the drop policy, Mulderink says that he hopes the Deans' Council will respond with favor. Sheldon Cox (left) of Cedar City and Terri Henrikson, a junior physical education major from Santa Clara, Utah, work together, through the Best Buddies Club, to make a face for a pumpkin which was later carved by Cox. Best Buddies is an SUU club that integrates a mixture of service, fun and fulfillment in their activities. Student volunteers spend at least once a month, although some students say they try to spend once a week, visiting and being a friend to a 'special buddy. ' Best Buddies has an activity once a month, at which time the 'buddies' have a chance to interact with other 'buddies.' Policy passed to meet act Kors targets codes (continued from page 1) them to deliver the tests, when in the pa~t the Student Services staff had picked up tests. Others felt that it was the responsibility of the The SUU Deans' Council has approved a new Student Services or the student involved to policy for the testing of those remind faculty to make the tests students with disabilities. The available. policy was deemed necessary for I , The new policy does allow for a meeting the testing variety of delivery mechanisms. accommodations required under Tests can be delivered in person, the Americans with Disabilities by sealed campus mail, e-mailed or faxed. There was no provision Act, in an effort to bring SUU into more complete compliance with for the return of the tests, once . the act. administered by Student Services. The new policy reads, in part: "Instructors will be responsible for Also raised was the issue of delivering tests to Student what constitutes "reasonable Support Services in the Sharwan efforts" by faculty to Smith Center, ST 205 , to WI I · · accommodate students with accommodate the testing needs L-- - - - -----___J disabilities. A state-level for students with disabilities Every effort will be advocate recently ruled that it was beyond "reasonable" for such students to expect to be made to protect the security of the tests." The new. policy received substantial discussion able to take tests and hand in homework at their in Thursday's faculty senate meeting. Some convenience, regardless of the course expectations. senators felt that it was an imposition to require BY GRACE BOYER SENIOR STAFF WRITER The SUU Deans' Council haS approved~ new policy for the testing Of those Students 'th dt.S b ·1,·t,·es a advantage of open-spirits with which most undergraduates enter college, Kors said. He commented that students should have "the right to choose one's identity fQr one's self; to define one's self; to individuate religiously, politically and in terms of voluntary groups among affiliations free of external cohesion and imposition." His third subject dealt with speech .codes and verbal behavior of harassment codes at 80-85 percent of public universities in the United States. According to Kors, most campuses are the scene where policies of ferocious assaults on freedom of speech and · expression are executed. He spoke about SUU's Acceptable Use Policy. Kors said it is "a sore monument to denial of academic freedom.· He commented that what is offensive to some is meaningful to others. He also said that "the policy stands in blaring contradiction to the wonderful statement incurring academic freedom which is part of the mission statement here." Kors then noted several colleges that have policies that contradict the first and 14th amendments. "Liberty doesn't give universities the right to commit fraud and promise academic freedom but deliver selective academic oppression .· In conclusion, Kors said that t,e believes "students choose universities for the value of degree, the human value of an education, the quality light and discovery at an institution , not for the therapists, let alone, political police.· Meningitis vaccine available at Wellness Center BY AIMEE OBERG JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Due to the recent outbreak of Meningococcal meningitis, the Wellness Center and many other clinics are offering the vaccine MenomuneA/C/YIW-135 Meningococcal Polysaccharide vaccine. Meningococcal meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord. The risk for contracting this disease is low, but there have been recent cases of outbreaks in various United States colleges and universities. "I want everyone to just be aware that if there is a problem , we would have [the vaccine] on board for those who wanted Clinical protection from this vaccine it," said Kay Messerly director of student begins 10 to 14 days after immunization health services at the Student Wellness and lasts approximately Center. three to five years·. The American College These immunizations Health Associatiqn strongly can be given to students, recommends that all faculty and staff under 30 college students get the years of age. vaccination, but freshman The symptoms of viral sllldents and those living in meningitis are a feyer, dormitories are at the severe headache, stiff highest risk of contracting neck, nausea and the illness because of the vomiting, generalized higher number of people in aches and pains, the living space. photophobia and/or an The Menomune vaccine occasional rasti. is given by injection and There are several defers the three most of the virus causes of prevalent types including: mumps, herpes, meningitis. Kay Messerly Coxsackie A and B or the ECHO virus which accounts for 70-75 percent·of all cases·. "There are no requirements to get the vaccination. but it has been highly recommended. (The university] doesn't want pa·rents to say, 'We were never given this option'," said Messerly. There has not been a reported case of the virus,at SUU yet, but Messerly· advised students to be informed and aware. The Menomune vaccine cost 1s $60 pre-paid and 1s offered to anyone who compiles with the pre-stated conditions and desires to receive the immunization Call the Student Health Service at 586-7718 for any questions or to reserve an immunization. 1• |