The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, March 8, 19893
Chancellor's. AwsiircS to hoooir i'Buy.st
founder of senior class
gift
By LESLIE WILSON
Staff Writer
A new Chancellor's Award has
been established in honor of E.
Eugene Jackson, a retired associate
director of the UNC Development
Office who established the senior
class gift in 1976.
Jackson helped raise nearly $1,000
from the senior class for the first gift.
"Since Jackson's beginning we've
come a long way," said Steve Tepper,
senior class president. "We, as a class,
wanted to honor him."
The award, which the Chancellor's
Awards Committee approved last
Tuesday, will go to a senior who is
"outstanding in dedication and ser
vice to the University and the senior
class," Tepper said.
"The recipient should also have
furthered the class objectives, which
are threefold," he said. "They are
demonstration of class pride and
University loyalty, senior leadership
to service the University's needs and
enrichment of the lives of seniors in
their last year."
Anyone may nominate a senior,
and nominations are due Friday at
5 p.m. to Lee Marks, assistant to the
dean of students, in Steele Building.
Nomination forms may be picked up
in the senior class office.
This year's recipient will receive a
$100 cash award because the Jackson
award was established so recently,
Tepper said. But next year, when
there is more time to choose an
award, a plaque or a medal, which
will last longer, will be presented with
the rest of the Chancellor's Awards,
he said.
This Chancellor's Award will be
the 26th for students, with some of
the oldest awards dating back to 1 877.
Other awards recognize achievement
in other areas of academics, student
activities and service to others. The
two most recent awards, honoring
Cornelius O. Cathey and Gladys Hall
Coates and Albert Coates, were
established in 1987.
"It's not easy to get a Chancellor's
Award," Tepper said. "This award is
important because it is in honor of
Mr. Jackson and will recognize
student achievement within the senior
class."
NCSU may abolish common exams
From staff reports
RALEIGH The Student Senate
at N.C. State University passed a
resolution last week to encourage the
university's administration to abolish
common exams.
"Common exams gear the teaching
of classes toward passing the final
exam instead of teaching what the
professor wants to teach," said
Brooks Raiford, president of the
Student Senate. "Common exams
don't allow individuality in teaching."
Common exams should be
replaced by exams prepared and
administered by the individual
instructor, he said. Common exams
often cover material that has been
covered by some instructors and not
others.
Davidson begins raising funds
DAVIDSON Davidson College
announced last week a $150 million
fund-raising drive believed to be one
of the largest ever for a liberal arts
college.
Davidson is targeting alumni and
friends of the college throughout the
nation to raise the money, $90 million
of which will fund professorships,
student scholarships and academic
programs. The remaining $60 million
will go toward operating expenses
and capital needs.
Gifts and pledges totaling $50
million have already been raised.
Twelve individual gifts of $1 million
each have been pledged, and the
Davidson Board of Trustees has set
a goal of donating $25 million.
Illinois to shorten Christmas break
URBANA, 111. The University
of Illinois' Senate recently passed a
Across the
Campuses
resolution that will shorten semester
break from five weeks to three weeks
beginning in the 1990-91 school year.
According to the new schedule,
classes in the fall of 1990 will begin
on Thursday, Aug. 23, and finals will
end on Saturday, Dec. 15. Classes will
resume Jan. 10, 1991, and commence
ment is scheduled for May 12.
Several faculty members expressed
objections to the schedule changes.
Many said starting classes earlier
rushes the already hurried process of
printing class rosters.
Shortening the break also gives
instructors less time to process grades
from the previous semester, some
teachers argued.
Many students at the university
said they were upset because they
would start classes earlier and would
have fewer reading days than other
Big Ten schools.
But members of the calendar
committee cited evidence that the
University of Illinois has 10 more
days of instruction than other Big Ten
schools. The committee said other
area schools also have only one
reading day before finals.
Christian fraternity founded
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. A chapter
of Alpha Delta Omega, a Christian
fraternity recognized by the National
Interfraternity Council, has been
founded at the University of
Tennessee-Krioxville, and founders
of the Alpha chapter are hoping' to
make a positive influence on campus.
"Christian social fraternities are
few and far between, with only three
others in the country," said David
Queener, president and founder of the
Alpha chapter.
"We started ADO for two main
reasons, he said, "hirst, since a
number of us had been involved in
Greek organizations in the past, we
saw the excesses. Second, we wanted
the opportunity as Christians to
promote and grow our faith.
One-fourth of the fraternity's
operating budget goes to ministries
in the Knoxville area, Queener said.
The group also supports Habitat for
Humanity, which helps build homes
for those in need.
Grading system controversy
NORTHFIELD, Minn. Educa
tors at Carleton College say a student
veto of a faculty decision to change
the school's Pass No Credit system
mav backfire.
The council voted to change the
Pass No Credit grading system to a
Satisfactory Credit No Credit sys
tem next fall, and students want to
negate the action.
The move has faculty worried that
students have too much power in
governing academic issues.
But students argue the Pass No
Credit system reduces academic
pressure and allows experimentation
in areas other than their major.
Many professors disagree.
"Pass No Credit has become an
excuse to blow off courses rather than
to genuinely experiment," said Con
stance Walker, professor of English.
"It's an abuse'of the principle.Tt's not
there, togive people a free ride."
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