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Vol. 84, No. 30
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Thursday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Legality of proposal questioned
Senate seeks access to transcripts By Susan Garrett The Faculty Senate has passed a measure to seek legal advice regarding access to transcripts of students who have received scholarships. The action resulted from an investigation by Dr. Lewis Irving, chairperson of student/faculty relations committee, into CSU's guidelines for student scholarships. However, one Faculty Senate member, Sherri Hancock, director of student finances, disagrees with the proposal. Hancock said she voted against the measure because of a lack of information presented to the senate. "At the present time, I feel it is an invasion of a student's privacy," Hancock said. Hancock said when the issue was brought up on the Faculty Senate floor she couldn't figure out exactly what the issue was and where they wanted to take it.
"At the present time, 1 feel it (the proposal) is an invasion of a student's privacy," — Sherri Hancock, director of student financial aid. "This is an extremely controversial issue," said Dr. Lewis Irving. "What we're dealing with is the distribution of scholarships and recipients receiving scholarships. "It all came about when I started making inquires about the method and use of student activity budget funds," said Irving. "We started inquiring about specific qualifications to receive these funds. There was a degree of variance between departments and the use of funds." "What happened," Irving said, "the athletic department is receiving 74 percent of activity money. I had heard that athletes had low grade point averages. I didn't
Library director says inspections to continue Library personnel will continue their policy of inspecting backpacks, briefcases and book carriers of persons leaving the premises, according to the library director. The policy, which was started in the Fall 1984 semester, resulted after excessive theft and vandalism of Max Chambers Library materials was noticed. "Only a small amount of people will steal," said John L. Lolley, director of library services. "They regard book theft as not a serious crime. They are probably nice people, but don't realize what their doing." Lolley said when a person is caught stealing a book or article belonging to the library, security is called, and an arrest can be made. "We can have them arrested for grand larceny if the amount is over $50." Lolley said. "The big deterrent is to realize they're stealing government property and liable to all the penalties." "The average cost of a book after we process it is $45. Try walking out a public bookstore with a $45 book," Lolley said. "Science and technical books cost up to $80 and some art books cost $200 to $300. You would be put in jail if you stole these from a store," he said. Lolley said he doesn't believe that some people regard book theft as stealing. "They just think we have plenty of them", he said. Lolley made the comparison of book theft with walking out of Safeway without paying for an item. "Journals receive the worst offenses with pages being mutilated or torn," Lolley said. "We can't get some particular journals replaced. The dealer will charge three times as much. "You penalize your fellow classmates. There is nothing worse than spending your time looking up an article and finding it torn out," Lolley said. "That person has robbed you of time and effort. The policy of inspecting books is not new. Library personnel inspected bookbags from 1969 to 1978, when the metal detectors were installed.
know if that was accurate. I started looking at transcripts. I was told I was violating student's rights." Irving said that faculty have access to students records if the student is in his or her class, or if the student seeks faculty advice. "We want to evaluate present scholarship students," said Irving. "We will ask the computer to generate general data in categories without student names — addressing private data but we won't know whose data it is. The data would be open to the Student and Faculty Senate," said Irving. Irving suggested that a scholarship evaluation could then be made.
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"The issue is," said Irving, "are students receiving scholarships to CSU who are on probation. If so, are they in a specific department? If so, is it a university problem?" Irving asked. "We have to have this data before we can answer any of these questions." Irving said that a student receiving a scholarship should be required to maintain at least a 2 point grade average. "Are students willing to have a percentage of their tuition support students with scholarships who don't maintain a 2 point grade average?" Irving asked. Hancock said that one-half of the scholarships are chosen by
departments. "Who they select is their business," Hancock said. "Is there a question as to each others ability to determine scholarships? The intent must be to monitor themselves. "Applying for scholarships is to show your credentials," said Hancock. "Students supply the information to those doing the evaluating. We have no control over a person after he or she receives a scholarship." "We have to decide how to judge someones talent," Hancock said. "When a department wants to grade their students for scholarships a lot of things have to be taken into consideration." Hancock said a student could be extremely talented in the field of music and have little talent in biology. She said students should be recognized for their talent. "We need to look at the positive side of scholarships." Hancock said.
Summer instructional salaries budget Summer enrollment 1983 1984 1985
5,660
1986
(projected) 5,541 5,388
$1 million
$853,000
$750,000
$723,000
While summer enrollment has held steady over the past three years, the instructional salaries budget has slipped over 25 percent from 1 million in 1983 to a projected $723,000 in 1986.