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Add-drop processes 12,750
By VIVIAN MARTIN
Approximately 12,750 students have gone through the add-drop process in the 3% weeks that it has been conducted. UConn's registrar said Wednesday. _ .
Registrar Thomas J. Burke said in addition to students who have dropped and added courses, the 12,750 figure includes graduates and undergraduate students who have registered this semester or resolved incomplete schedules.
The figure was released after Burke compiled the results of the period Aug. 27- Sept. 17. Burke said 11,128. people went through between Aug. 27-Sept. 10, while it was still in the ROTC Hangar.
Under the new add-drop procedures, students have until Sept. 28 - next Tuesday - to drop a course and receive a W. After the four-week period, students will recieve a letter grade of ‘F’ for any course dropped.
The new add-drop and pass/fail rules were passed last
semester. after much debate by the University Senate. Richard Cartun, a fifth semester student member of the Senate
who was present when the new rules were approved, said Wednesday one of the strongest arguments for changing the rules was that many students were abusing them.
Cartun said many of the deans and faculty did research into the topic way before it was presented before the Senate. He said they found that a lot of students register for excess courses. and then drop them later. Meanwhile, students that need the courses for their major were not able to register because of full classes, Cartun said. “By the time there were spaces in the class, it would be much too late to register." he said. -
Although he said he is aware that the new procedures are
strongly criticized by students, Cartun said, “When you look at it
that way, it's only fair.”
Burke said the Registrar's Office has always received the “largest bulk of drops" during or near the formerly designated nine-week deadline, whereby students could drop courses up
until the ninth week and still receive a ‘W’ on their records.
‘'50 it's very hard to say whether or not the number of people dropping courses is unusually large or small," he said.
Earlier this week Gary T. Steel, newly appointed student senator, said that he was displeased with the new rules and that he had heard much in the way of student disapproval. Steele said that he would like to see the add-drop rules bought up on the
Senate again. V
Innocent plea expected from Reilly
LITCHFIELD (UPI) - An inno- cent plea to a manslaughter charge is expected from Peter A. Reilly, 2l, today in Litchfield County Sugerior Court.
Three years ago Reilly was arrested in the Sept. 28, 1973
slaying of his mother, Barbara to appeal the six to 16 year on grounds
Gibbons. 51. in their Falls Village sentence he received. home. Reilly, then a high school
1974. Reilly was freed on $60,000 bond new trial for Reilly
BOG budget report due
By ELLEN GRAY
The student government chair- man said Wednesday night he expects a budget report from the Board of Governors (BOG) will be delivered at a meeting of the student government Central Committee today.
"We have a number of ques- tions regarding the budget, and we're asking for the report in an attempt to find out what is going on," said William Finch. chair- man of the Federation of Student Services and Organizations FSSO).
Finch said some of his questions would concern BOG s allocations for minority porgramming. as well as the group's $40 appro- priation for theater tickets. bought to reward deserving BOG members for their work.
Finch said that it had been his understanding that BOG Pres- ident Jeffery Naus would present the report at today's meeting, but
he was not positive that the report would be delivered.
Naus could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.
Finch said he plans to announce the two remaining University
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Senate appointments today. Five students appointed by FSSO's Central Committee serve on the
Senate. Twelve students will be appointed to positions on the admissions, budget, scholastic standards, student welfare, growth and development and curriculum and courses
committees of the Senate, Finch added.
Finch said the Central
Committee will discuss the com- assistant-4
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September 27 ll-5 Student Union Rm. 103-I04
Exhibit will run until October 1
Sponsored by the Public Relations and Recreation committees
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After receiving support from senior. was charged with murder neighbors, Reilly's case received but convicted of manslaughter in national publicity. Superoir Court Judge John A. Speziale ordered a last March
Program Review Commlittee be released to FSSO, in the event that some answer to the com- plaint has been received by today.
He said he will announce the name of the new managing editor of the FSSO Forum today, as well
as the names of FSSO's executive secretary and administrative
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new evidence probably would bring about a different verdict.
The state plans to go ahead with the retrial but on a lesser charge of manslaughter. The Litchfield County State's Attorney John. F. Bianchi, died of a heart attack Aug. 22. His assistant, Robert L. Beach, filed new information Sept. 1 charging Reilly with first degree manslaughter.
However, Chief State's Attorney Joseph T. Gormley said the final
plaint S week With decision on whether ta the Freedom of Information Com- Remy to trial again win rest with mission, asking that memos of the Bianchi’s successor, who has not
yet been chosen. T. F. Gilroy Daly, the attorney
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who gained the new trial for Reilly after seven weeks of hearings before Speziale, said Tuesday his client would plead innocent to the manslaughter charge.
Daly, a Democrat who is also the state deputy treasurer. was recently named by Gov. Ella T. Grasso to become state insurance commissioner effective Oct. 1.
Daly, who argued the state should drop its retrial plans because of double jeopardy to Reilly, could not say whether he would represent Reilly. '
“We're looking so far into the future, I can't answer that ques- tion." he said.
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WORLD FILMS — FALL 197 6
All in Student Union 101, 7:30 pm 1. Azalea Mountain, Thurs. Sept. 23
Latest opera from Peking with ballet and music depicting the struggle for socialism.
2. Free People in Guine Bissau, Mon. Sept. 27
Historical backgroung of liberation struggle in the former Portuguese colony
3. Madina Bo’e, Tues. Oct. 5
Also from Guine-Bissau. depicting peoples culture as a factor in the struggle
4-. We Demand Freedom, Tues., Oct 12
Shows development of prison philosophy in USA and how it is used against the poor. opprcsscd minority-and working people.
5. Chile with Poemsand Guns, Mon. Oct. 18
Exposes U.S. involvement in the overthrow of the Allende government.
6- M00711 .l0ngm0 (Mt. Everest) & Inner Mongolia, Thurs. Oct. 21
Two superb documentaries on scientific survev of the world's highest peak and minority people in a Socialist country (Peoples Republic of China).
7. (2.1. Jose, Wed. Oct. 27
Explores the life of a young Puerto Rican forced to join the U.S. Army to tight in Vietnam, who awakens to realize that the enemy
is at home.
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