‘ _ ‘ ’ ena‘t‘a . Honourableo John , 'Diefenbakerg be the...) .1 3:. . r ' convocationyspeaker at graduation ceremonies held in May at the University. The Senate were informedf 5f Mr. Diefenbaker's de— cision at the meeting held Thursday,‘Feb.l7th. The Senior Class had invited the former Prime Minister" of Canada as their cOn—‘ vocation speaker during the fall semester. Mr. Diefenbaker shall receive an honourary degree.by the Uhiversity.. - ' Proposed.calendarr changes were accepted by Senate. During the '77—'78 Academic year,-for.the first semester,—supp1e— ‘ mental examinations will NV 6M" film“ on a.” 35.1" w om! ’ was 1 so 591A 'an CAD? ,5 . . 9121 “New 0 “two day earlier. -second semester Juniors ‘and Seniors will register‘* by Bibler “Yes, I know you made. an ‘Ai on your final— but you just look like a ‘0’ student." take place from the 6th to the 8th.of September,. while Junior and Senior registration will be on_ Thursday Sept.38th. . Sophomore and Freshman fstudents shall register on the Ninth with Part— time students register- ing that evening. In other years, registration took place approximately ‘In the onWed.‘ Jan 4th., in - the moring while the Fresh- men and Sophomores shall register in the afternoon: and part—time students register the same evening. This is the first time the university has endeavoured to have all students re-x gister for the semester ' the same day. The Academic Planning Committee submitted its several changes in its ’ed to the English Dept., literature of Atlantic- Canada. The literature of Atlantic Canada has .several years. UPEI was the first institution to it is offered in several ;.Dept. is interested i-n to be a good market for hrsdllllel- Board a 5 Students are needed to serve on the Personnel Board. The term of service will be from March 31, 1977 until_March 30,1983. .1 Applicant forms are available in the Student Union Office, Basement of~ Memorial Hall. . The Deadline for apply-l ing is March 18/77. The job description is below.l L”. PERSONNEL BOARD ' 1- The Council shall \ §Pp01nt the Personnel Board In March., The term of all members is to run from. March 31 to March 30 of the following-year._ J - Ther PersOnnel Beard Shall be responsible for the recruiting.andjse— eCtion of all non-e1- ectediperggnne15LStudent Volunteeriafénhhhéliand allj Salaried‘}g§;'fsbhné1fém— plOYEd by the UPEISU Committee Boards and all Committees on which the , "my ‘person, board or committee 'UPEISU which wishes "3. The Personnel Board is UPEISU shall appoint mem— bers and thus be represent— ed, and all staff, student, or otherwise, which shall be employed by the UPEISU. _The” Personnel Board shall .administer_salaries and »honoraria given to the above and to all the electe‘ program for next year. Two new courses have been add- ,thennzfiEnglish.231 (topics in,literatnre) had been peased‘by.the Academic _Planning Committee to be_ gincluded under spcial 'studies, and that the -regu1ations>pertaining to rspecial studies apply with ' the exception that the < course be made available to Sophmore students. Pre— viously only Senior student of high Academic standing who were majoring in English were allowed to . take special studies. The motion made by the Aca- demic Committee was de- feated on the grounds that the course which had been ,assigned as.a 200 course would be numbered a 400 level course if it was _1abeled under special in studies; also that this action would be self ‘ defeating in that soph— more students would be Ithird report before Senate. The EngliSh Dept. has made topics in’literature, and been offered as a seminar under special studies for offer this course but now Atlantic Universities. TheI ‘offering several Canadian options and there appears ‘ discouraged to take a 400 level course. The motion was passed by Senate ‘that the course,EngliSh 231 (Topics in Literature) be accepted as originally porposed by the English Dept. An amendment was approved that the part making the course come under special studies be deleted from the motion." The amended motion was then passed. English 241 (Intro. to Mbdern Literature), and 251 (Man The Measure: Literature from 1600 to 1832) and' 261 (Medieval and Eliza— bethan Literature ) \respectively were all passed as proposed. 241 would be offered each semeSter while 251, and 261 would be offered in the fall and Spring semesters respectively. Course numbers 110, 250, and 280 represent a mod- 'ification and expansion of content from fermer English courses 201,202. English courses 332, (Mod- Vinappropriate. . . ' j I ‘ L 7 .IV \ . 1.1 ‘. I learscalend‘ardates, poll- _scl problems a ' ' ‘ern British Literature) :and English 311 were both approved. Both these are a combination of , two other courses. The English Dept. wish to make it a requirement that all courses leading to 'a major in English must be at least 60%.; This has 'r not been passed as yet by the Academic Planning Committee, but it is * possible that all other f Deptartments in the Arts Faculty may also pass a motion with the concensus. An unusual incident was brought to the attention of Senate by Chairman of the Political Science Dept., Fred Von Dreger. In Political Science Course 361, he thought that the marks that had been awarded,in the ‘course had been in most cases to high' the class average being 89%. The Professor re-read the exams after the chairman's request, and the marks became an average 11 points lower than the original marks afiter the re~read. Both the Prof. concerned and the Chairman deemed that the latter marks reflected more acur— ately the student's ef— forts in the course. Also the Prof. had not read all the exams himself, as he had an assistant grade somr of the papers. Senate ‘passed the motion that the chairman of a Dept. may *within one month request re— consideration of evaluation of grades, where they consider the mark to be The re— assigend grades will be put on the student's transcript as passed by Senate. After the re- read three students re- .ceived a higher mark in the course than had been precorded previously. The next Senate meeting will be’Thursday, the 24th at-3 PM in the board 1 room of the Kelly Building. i H, -... WW.~ ed_personne1.‘ No other shall have any authority to .appoint or hire UPEISU or volunteer personnel without obtaining prior approval n at a meeting of the Personnel Board. The Personnel Board shall also provide such services_to ,any suborganization of the to make ‘ if the includ— use of this service organization is not ed in the above. in all cases subject to Council approval. only the Personnel Board may hire or fire Persgnnel, - r: I a»... (I w! int-Ia at" M 3“*""“““ * . February 11/): . @nfederahbn ' Cehire, ” ~ ' ' Admission: 50¢ for Students 1.00 non-Students Room 205 Blanchard RRoom 316 Marion 'Student Union Office or at the door from I p.m. Saturday . Tickets AVaiable: Th 9.. .C!‘ i n.” 9 5Enigma...earn;i qt. ion, 1 Acupuncture invetheasn‘ia - awu Shu, ChinesenMortial Arts 7 ' JVA‘crobafic's gig/977 * lh13¢2 ’fllIVQ. i