The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 4, 2002 - 7A CODE Continued from Page 1A amendments were rejected, even though they were moderated from past years' amendments to win University approval. In addition to denying students full legal representation - which the amendments requested only for criminal cases, Block said - changes to allow University students to unilaterally open hearings for cer- tain complaints against departments without their mutual consent were rejected, Block said. And an amendment restricting the University from charging students for off-campus incidents also failed to win approval. The amendment claimed stu- dents would still be held responsible in such cases by civil authorities, and the University's rationale for rejecting the change essentially echoed this argu- ment, Block said. "I'm concerned that the changes that students feel are most important to them and are most necessary to them are not being incorporated into the statement," he said. "Our most pressing concerns have, been mar- ginalized. ... Overall, there was very little substantial change to the the michiqan c I - I statement." As for future recommendations to the statement, Block said he and MSA are uncertain of how to spur substan- tial changes, especially given the lack of significant reforms in past years. "Can we moderate these ideas enough so they can be accepted? I don't know," he said. But Block said he plans future meetings with OSCR and the Student Relations Advisory Committee - a group of students, faculty and staff which decides on amendments - to discuss ways to tweak the amendment process. MSA can offer amendments to the statement every two years, but Block said he will propose to allow statement clarifications to be made more frequently. Clarifications should also be list- ed separately, so the University can- not claim it approved a certain percentage of proposed amendments when the only real changes were grammatical, he said. The revised statement also clarifies that students can appeal a hearing decision for ten days after the Dean of Students signs off on it, and it also prevents students from sending e- mails under another person's identity without permission. I GRADES Continued from Page 1A LSA junior and a physics major. "Most of the math teachers seem to give (grades) on a bell curve." The problem might be simply solved by fostering discussion amongst faculty to help regulate grading procedures, Johnson said. When Johnson first came to the University last year, "There was no guidance or discussion of what the grading practices are." Johnson also suggested weighting grade point averages in regards to the difficulty of grade assessment by teacher. The use of grading curves would likewise help to regu- late grade distribution. He also pro- posed allowing faculty to drop their lowest course evaluation scores so that students signing up for a course would not be as biased by the aver- age grade distributed by the teacher. COME TO DAILY MASS MIETNGSI SEPT.8 8,9,18 AT 7:00P .t I A DOOtRS Al' OP $$4 1O(B{4 f1# ~$I $S(AFTER] the .ar 3' BBBI3C V oao i3.ae #ie s ::as if ° r16 p"£ff . f .f . ri a;^'rE4 x, zkr~ .;"" < s.--} ac ? o £"': . : mv s ". s.;;. Y ) .£ ' x tg x . x , Y. K r t .£, s i ' " t. . it r' y y 130P5m:HEn tPIRESEMST A i .. '' i 3 34ra £ ?s~'- n2 3 3 5t o#o CO 1 F , ft' . t i, ! ".zf ;y ", : ]Vy~ fo2rmv"