Senate defers exam vote
By Dave Stephens
Assistant
Campus Editor
University Senate decided to wait another month
to vote on adding Monday evening exams to the evening exam schedule.
By adding exams on Mondays, which have traditionally
been reserved for fraternities, sororities and student club meetings,
administrators hope to solve problems with scheduling exams.
The decision to wait another month came after Pat
Mondi, student body vice president, asked the Senate to reconsider the
effect of adding Monday evening exams.
"Ninety percent of students that we surveyed had
significant resistance to evening exams," said Mondi.
He also said the Purdue Student Government was
in the process of conducting a formal survey among student leaders to
address the effect of adding Monday evening exams.
During the University Senate meeting in January,
the Senate recommended that the committee that came up with the proposal
to add Monday night exams should do a more formal survey of student
organizations.
At Monday's meeting, Terry Stewart, professor of
animal sciences and chairperson of the Educational Policy Committee
for the Senate, presented to the Senate a list of what nights student
organizations met.
The list, which was the number of requests per
night for activity rooms on campus, showed that Monday nights ranked
fourth as the most active night. The list, however, did not include
organizations that meet in non-academic buildings, such as Residence
Hall clubs, fraternity and sorority organizations and many other clubs
that meet off campus.
"I was a little surprised by PSG coming in at this
late date," said Stewart. "When we contacted them in September, the
response was that it wasn't that big of an issue. Until today's meeting,
I had no indication that it was a major issue. Back in September, the
overwhelming response was 'I wasn't aware of the regulation.'"
Stewart said he thought a lot of the students'
reactions to the proposal were because they thought it would mean more
evening exams.
"If students perceive that we're adding evening
exams, they are mistaken," said Stewart. "We are spreading the exams
out of more nights."
After the meeting in which University Senate decided
to wait until PSG could compile figures from its survey, before voting
on adding Monday evening exams, Mondi took the opportunity to invite
Stewart to address the student senators of PSG.
"I extended to Professor Stewart an invitation
to come before PSG," said Mondi. "The committee that worked on this
proposal worked very hard on it; we just want to end up with something
that both sides can agree on."
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