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TheLouisville Cardinal
Vol XLVI No. 28 Room 117, Otter Hall, Louisville, Ky. 40208 April 18, 1975
Same as witht:lrawal
Pass-fail deadline
extended in A&S
By Steve Wingiteld
The faculty of the College of Arts and
Sciences this. week changed the pass-fail
system so students can change from a
letter grade to a pass-fail until the regular
withdrawal date.
The old catalog provision stated no
changes from letter grade to pass-fail or
vice versa could be made after the fourth
week of the semester.
Tt~ A&S standards and admissions
committee originally proposed at the
faculty meeting to move the decision
date on pass-fail back to thf~ end of the
drop-add (one week after the semester
starts).
When the standards and admissions
oommittee proposal was mov~ed, students
who sit on the faculty meetings with full
voting status moved to amend the motion
such that students could change the grade
basis for a course up until two weeks after
the announced mid-term ~examination
period.
Bruce Atherton, who moved the
amendment, explained that students
needed the extra time in order to gauge
their standing in a course before making a
decision on · pass-fail. He also said
expanding the decision time would
encourage students to expand their
educational background by taking courses
outside of their field of study in whcih
they normally could not compete.
The old provision in ilhe Catalog
concerning pass-fail courses says a student
who has been admitted to ~mior College
may take one course a semc~ster outside
of his major field.
The main objection to student
amendment centered on the optmon
students would use the pass-fall as
"nothing more than a tool'' to protect
their grade point averages.
During debate on the stu4ent
amendment the amendment itself was
amended so the decision dat4~ on pass-fail
would be the same as the withdrawal date
(four weeks before the 1end of the
semester).
The faculty approved the student
amendment by a substantial margin.
The faculty then defeated a Sbndards
and Admissions committee proposal to
not officially inform instructors as to
whether or not a student 1~s taking a
course on a pass-fail basis.
In other action the faculty approved
the addition of English 100 as part of the
curriculum. Incoming freshmen who are
deficient in writing skills will be required
to take Eng 100 before being allowed to
enter the regular Eng 101-102 courses,
which are required for graduation.
The English Department originally
proposed the addition of Eng 100
because they said as much as 25% of
incoming freslunen are so wanting in
writing skills they cannot successfully do
college level work.
Controversy arose over whether a
student should be granted credit for Eng
100. The course wiiJ be remedial in
nature and some f41cu1ty members
contended that credit should not be
allowed for gaining a level of writing
competency which the student should
have before entering college.
The faculty, after much debate, chose
to allow the student credit for Eng J 00,
but the credit will be used for
determination of full-time status only and
wiR not be counted towards graduation.
In this issue
Graduation changes .......... .4
Cardinal looks back ........... 7
Quintessence ............... 1 2
"Rivals" review ............. 14
Deathsedge concludes . ....... 18
Phototmaph by Jcbb llan~
Where are those warm spring days of yesterye•? Deane Petkus enjoy1ed the sunny
weather a few years ago, but so far thti spring the gods of the weather haven't smiled
upon Belknap campus.
l.1 of L yearbook Deja-Vu, arri•v es
The 1975 edition of Deja- Vu was
released for sale to students yesterday.
The cost for U of L students is $2.00 per
ropy for the 232 page look at the year's
people . and events. Copies are on sale at
all campus bookstores and in the lobby of
the U.C. Building. Editor Joe Fowler told
the Cardinlll that only a limited number
have been printed. "Anyone wishing to
purchase a copy should do so as soon as
possible," he said. He added that anyone
who ordered a book in advance should
pick up his copy at the table in the U.C.
Building.
Dejtl- Vu has been in production since
August of last year. The final deadline for
any material to be included in the
coverage ,was late January. ''It's
unfortunate that we can't cover anything
that goes on after January but that's just
how it has to be in order to get the book
back in April," Fowler said. "This year,
however, we're doing a supplement so we
can -cover the NCAA basketball
tournament." "You must · return the
enclosed card in order to receive a copy
of the supplement," added Mike Kraus,
Deja- Vu business manager. "It wil1 be
mailed out sometime in June."
This is the second year that the
yearbook has been called Deja- Vu. Before
1973, it was known as the Thoroughbred
Due to internal staff problems, no book
was published in 1973. Last year'
therefore, with the book back in
production, it was felt that a change of
name would help the new yearbook
establish its identity.
Both the 1974 and 1975 editions of
Deja- Vu provide sections 0111 groups and
seniors, and in format arc similar to the
classic yearbook style. This is in contrast
to the recent magazine-type product that
was attempted here in 1970 :and J 971 but
was not well received. M~odcrn design
techniques and, according to Fowler, ·
"very fine photography" giv·c ·the book a
contemporary Joo k.
"We've tried to include as many
people and events throughout the year as
possible," Fowler stated. "We feel we've
improved over the 1974 bqok and hope
next year's can be even bc~tter. I think
that ten years from now:, a graduate
should be able to pick up this book and
remember what went oo her<~."