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Show ™L DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday.August 8, 2005 LIBRARY STILL OPEN DURING CONSTRUCTION continued from Page Bl and library materials. In addition, Information Commons will include an Automated Retrieval Center. The ARC is a robotically operated unit that can retrieve 2 million books and materials from around the library. Students just have to request their item on one of the computers. "Our Information Commons is going to be really exciting for students because you're still going to be able to get traditional reference help from librarians, but you're also going to be able to get technology help as well," Godfrey said. With the construction going on, both Godfrey and Brett want students to know the library is still open for business. "But for the most part, it should be business as usual for students," The Health Sciences Building is just one of the construction projects on campus. Brett said. "We worked very hard to make it be very accessible for tion." construction and construction edu/construct/. students all throughout construcFor more information about updates, visit http://www.lib.utah. lnarci$o@chronicle.utah.edu Now accommodating U Fall Semester will be a first for new university policy Steve Gehrke Chronicle Editor in Chief Uncomfortable with classroom requirements? Now there may be a way out. After more than six years of legal battles and administrative debate, the U will begin test-driving a policy unlike that of any university in the United States. In the past, the U has required professors to be flexible when dealing with students' attendance when religious or school-oriented conflicts interfered with class. Now the U has a new policy—and this one is oriented not around attendance, but course content. The Accommodation Policy, which the Board of Trustees finalized during the 2005 Spring Semester, allows professors to determine whether a class activity or an element in class curriculum offends a student's deeply held beliefs. If the professor grants an accommodation and allows the student to be exempt or to study alternative materials, he or she must then make similar accommodations for all students, regardless of their creed, etc.However, a professor does have the right to deny accommodations altogether. If he or she does not provide an accommodation to any stu- teaching, research and public service." The Board of Trustees Though summer is slow for consists of 10 members. The the U's Board of Trustees, the governor elected eight of the new board members are pre- members, while the two other paring to meet the goals and members are from the student mission of this fast approach- body, including the student ing school year. body president. The board meets monthly, "We work very closely with with the exception of July, to the students' ASUU student conduct U business that has body president," said Jim Macbeen brought to them by the farlane, the current chairman Academic Senate. of the board. "He is present In the mission statement, for every meeting, and we rely the board vows to be of as- heavily on him to keep the stusistance to students and dents in the loop." faculty, including proper The board is approached representation of the U to by the academic senate about the Utah State Board of Re- policies or concerns the stugents. dents or faculty may have. In its written statement, the In June, the board gave the board promises: To "provide go-ahead to create a new recadvocacy and oversight for the reation center at the request university in such a manner as of students. to enhance the U's capacity to Though the student fees fulfill its three-fold mission of may go up as much as $60 a Caitiin York Interested in photography? Then The Chronicle is interested in YOU. Contact Steve: sgehrke@chronicle.utah.edu Math is hard. You need hell with it. WecamelL Go to the Math Tutoring' Center located in L C B . Need some extra cash? How about a part-time job? dent, he or she may deny them to all. The policy drew some praise and some criticism as it was debated both within the U and among surrounding colleges and universities. The U's governing body of faculty members—the Academic Senate—has the ability to revisit the policy in coming years to address its status. While its future could vary, one thing is for sure: all eyes were on the U in forming this new policy, and they will not likely shift away from the U in tracking the implementation of this unique policy. sgehrke@ chronicle.utah.edu Getting to know the Board of Trustees Chronicle Writer B5. semester to pay for the $31 million project, the students have encouraged the board to take the matter to the state Board of Regents for further progress. "The board deals with a lot of the finances on campus," Macfarlane said. "But what we do on campus, we do quietly." Of the 10 board members, nine are alumni of the U or have family members who are. "Though the governor appoints whomever he pleases to the board, a lot of the members are alumni of the U and are already familiar with the operations of the campus," Snow said. 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