UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
TUESDAY
MAY 4, 1999
GRADUATION Traditions continue 3
MOVIE REVIEW Entrapment 16
BATTLE OF BANDS Show rescheduled 4
COLUMN Is P E. a scam? 19
AROUND CAMPUS Campus happenings 12
LETTER Gay issue debated 21
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New student transcript may focus on college activities By Trent Dugas
In with the new... Elaine Amos helps Russell Amos work out a fall schedule before prenrolling as a freshman at UCO last Wednesday afternoon. Russel was one of thousands of students preparing to enter UCO as other prepared to graduate next week.
Senate bill leaves tenureless professors less protected By Trent Dugas
Staff/Mier Professors on UCO campus who do not have tenure can be fired or denied promotion without legal due process. Senator Bernest Cain, DOklahoma City wrote Senate Bill 382 but the bill never left the House Education Committee. The bill would have given professors due process when being fired or denied promotion. Due process would be a letter in
writing as to why Dr. Tom the professor was Guild, being fired or president of The American denied AAUP and Association of University promotion. U CO Professors (AAUP) The American professor of sponsored the bill and Association of general claims there are few University business, Professors institutions in Oklahoma said the (AAUP) that give due process to reason why faculty members. sponsored the the bill did bill and claims not pass was there are few institutions in because of power . He said top Oklahoma that give due process officials from universities to faculty members. pressured the legislators to let
the bill die. Guild said they pressured the legislators because the due process would have taken power out of their hands. Oklahoma is not very progressive on employment issues Guild said. The people who were opposed to the bill did not think through the consequences of their actions. "We are not private V See TENURE,
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StalfMitar The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education is encouraging state colleges and universities to provide an extra transcript to students. But the idea is not popular with UCO officials. The student activity transcript will include information on any accomplishments a student might have that will not show up on an academic transcript. Student leadership, sports, campus organizations, honors, scholarships, awards, workshops, conferences and participation on campus are some of the things that might be on the transcript. The State Regents have adopted a model plan for the transcript from the University of Oklahoma. Jarrod Marcum-Noftsger, assistant to vice president for student services, said in theory the student activity fee is a good idea but not realistic. "I think we will want to do some looking into it to see how much employers value the transcript before we commit a huge amount of resources to it," Noftsger said. "We don't have quite as many resources as some of the other universities so we're much more targeted about how we spend money so students can get the V See TRANSCRIPTS, Page 2