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NEW COACHES 2018 MIDTERMS: HOW WILL VOTERS TURN OUT AT POLLS? 101 Ole Miss faculty and students were surveyed on whether or not they plan to vote. Just over half said they plan to vote and around a quarter said they aren’t registered. SEE PAGE 3
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APPROACHES Ole Miss Basketball returns this weekend at the Pavilion. Kermit Davis and Yovett McPhee-McCuin are looking for strong starts to their first seasons as Rebel coaches. Read our previews of the men’s and women’s seasons inside. SEE PAGES 6-7
PRESS PLAY ON TWENTY ONE PILOTS After a yearlong hiatus, Twenty One Pilots “shows massive growth in maturity” with its new album “Trench,” writes assistant arts and culture editor Eliza Noe. SEE PAGE 5
ASB calls for A+ addition to grading scale LAYSEN LANDRUM
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Students could earn an A+ for some courses as early as next fall. The Associated Student Body Senate passed a resolution at its Tuesday night meeting asking for the university to add an A+ option to the university’s grading scale. Sally Boswell, the grading policy chair for the ASB Academic Affairs Board, said the purpose of the resolution is “to give professors the option to reward students for exceptional performance.” “Receiving an A- would no longer render a cumulative 4.0 an impossibility,” Boswell said. The policy, which passed through the senate by a margin of 32-13, would grant professors the option of using an A+ letter grade without mandating that professors use it. To take
effect, the senate’s resolution still requires approval from UM administration. As stated by university policy, the conversion from raw score to letter grade is completely up
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individual semester could be as high as 4.3. The University of Mississippi would be the third school in the SEC to implement this policy. According to information pre-
Receiving an A- would no longer render a cumulative 4.0 an impossibility. Sally Boswell ASB Grading Policy Chair for the Academic Affairs Board
the discretion of the professor. The establishment of this policy would not alter that. If added, the A+ would be worth 4.3 on the GPA scale. The resolution states that cumulative GPA would still be capped at 4.0, but GPA for an
sented at the meeting, University of Alabama and Louisiana State University both already have an A+ worth 4.33 and 4.3 respectively on their grading scales. A major concern expressed by the resolution’s opposition was the lack of student input on the
idea. Senators who voted against the resolution cited the fact that no polls were conducted to gauge student sentiment. “ASB has posted on their social media, at least once, that this is coming to the floor and to contact your senator if you have concerns or thoughts, and to my knowledge, no concerns or thoughts were raised,” ASB Sen. Nick Weaver, an author of the resolution, said. Some senators expressed concerns that the grade inflation may cause issues for students, and worried that this change would create new issues rather than solving old ones. “There are students on this campus who have earned a 4.0 and they’ve earned that 4.0 because they’ve kept it all the way through,” Sen. Charlotte Sackleford said. “And if we do pass this
SEE GRADING PAGE 3
OLE MISS WRAPS UP FALL SEASON IN HAWAII Ole Miss Men’s Golf finished up its fall season with an eighth place finish at the Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational in Kauai, Hawaii. SEE PAGE 8