THE RIDGERUNNER
VOL. 5, NO. 8 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE FRIDAY, JANUARY 23,1970
General Education
Requirements Eased
photo by Dennis Howard
Queen Sheijfi
VlUCvll JIICIIU
Sheila- Cody was crowned Homecoming Queen durmg the
festivities of Homecoming. Sheila, representing the
Cheerleaders is a junior from Swannanoa. Makmg up her court
were Anne Riddle, Sherry Mickle and Barbara
Brookshire, of the Senior Class, Sigma Lambda Chi, Circle K
and the Junior Class.
Meyers Legitimate/
Judicial Board Decrees
Meetings of the General
Faculty were held December 17
and 19 to consider the proposals
submitted tliem by the Faculty
Senate concerning among other
things. General Education
Requirements and curriculum
changes. Dean Roy A. Riggs
presided in the absence of
Chancellor Highsmith.
The first business taken up
concerned insurance rates for
the faculty, then the
recommendation that
instructor's names be listed on
the class schedule whenever
possible instead of "staff". A
recommendation was made to
allow three students to be
non-voting members of the
Senate Committee on Student
Affairs, but a point of order was
called and the recommendation
was referred to the Executive
Committee of the Faculty
Senate.
Changes in the procedure of
supervisors to evaluate their
faculty were involved in the next
recommendation.
The next recommendation
involved the numbering of
courses. The new course system
UUuKs-co/-* Ann
courses, 100-199, Basic,
200-299, Intermediate, and 300
to 400, Advanced. The
Recommendation passed.
Then the matter of a change
of grading systems was
presented. After an hour and a
half of bandying words and new
systems, old systems and such, a
three-slot system was adopted
with the letter designations of E.
S. and U (Excellent, Satisfactory
and Unsatisfactory.) However, a
proposal of giving not only an
overall grade but grades in three
other areas to aid the student
was droDoed.
The last business taken up on
Wednesday, December 17, was
the proposal to keep the foreign
language requirement intact in
the G.E.C. The motion carried
after another battle and the
meeting adjourned.
The meeting reconvened on
Friday, December 19.
Dean Riggs informed the
meeting that the release of the
new grading system to the news
media was a mistake. The matter
of grading was taken up again,
and in true faculty manner, after
another twenty minutes of
squabbling, the old system of
H,G,P and F was adopted.
Following is a list of the
General Education Curriculum
changes adopted at the meeting
on Friday, December 19:
a. Humanities V changed to
an elective and reduced to 3
hours credit.
b. Bibliography retained as a
requirement.
c. Mathematics dropped as a
samiie3’‘*«5^ -
hours in any discipline,
(corresponding to changes in the
Biology lab courses.)
e. All Social Science courses
required dropped.
f. Recommendation that
Humanities course be reviewed,
name changed ( to give the
impression that the course does
not just belong to any one
department) and the course
revised by a committee to be
appointed by the administration.
g. Language OOA retained.
h. Language 13A - a student
be allowed to take a
profieciency test as an option, a
course in formal writing be
adopted as an option to 13A,
and that the course (13A) be
modified to include a substantial
amount of expository writing.)
i. Physical Education retained
as a requirement, but varsity
athletes and veterans allowed to
take skill course instead.
A recommendation requiring
30 semester hours to be earned
in courses on the 300-400 level,
and a recommendation requiring
that no more tharf 36 hours be
required beyond the
introductory level in the major
field and no more than 24 hours
in correlate areas.
Two courses in Black history
were entered into the
curriculum as well as a creative
writing course.
Changes were made in the
curricula of the Physical
Education, Mathematics,
Psychology, Education and
Chemistry Departments.
The meeting adjourned after
his ear. rn iocl,
astounding aspect of the
meetings was the petty squablles
arising out of points of order
and the like. The faculty of this
institution makes the students
look organized, and you have to
be a student to know how
hilarious that is.
The Judicial Board has ended
the eight week controversy over
the legitimacy of Don Meyers as
president of the Student
Government Association.
The Board found in Meyers
favor which allows him to
remain in the position of
president. x ♦
In the last two weeks oT first
term, Meyers withdrew from
two courses which made him a
part-time student according to
the registrar. In the eight-odd
weeks following, Meyers has
presfded over the student body
pending a decision of the
Judicial Board.
The first Judicial Board
decision found Meyers in
violation of the constitution and
removed him from office. When
this decision was presented to
the Executive Council, Meyers
brought to their attention that
the Board members must be
approved. Since they had never
been approved, the decision was
ignored.
Another Judicial Board was
established and approv^ and
the issue of Meyers’ legitimacy
was referred to it.
The decision found that
Meyers did meet the
requirements set forth by the
constitution. This was based on
the fact that a withdrawl-pass
(WP) did constitute a grade in
the same respect that a double
0-A course is a grade. Therefore,
although Meyers received a WP
in two courses last term, the WP
constitutes a passing grade and
fulfills the requirements of the
constitution.
The 'Board reasons that
Meyers did not receive credit for
either course, but he did receive
a passing grade. The Board
interpreted the constitution m
the sense of grades and not
credit hours.
The vote on the decision was
five to zero. Voting were Bob
Bell (chairman), Ron Cappella,
Anne Wutschell, Iris Bartlett and
Jeff Adams. Jim Cole and Lee
Shuster were absent and did not
.vote.
Ham I Doing?
r thp Hark horse (sow) candidate for Homecoming Queen title, Sally
c • M ITiPft Hoht) S Warden, Barbara Brookshire and Jan Sterzer. Running
Smithfield, are (left to right) La y disqualified because her supporters
on the slogan, Brmg the ^ attracted glances of admiration from
several dor.