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Hilltop Views
Attendance policy controversial
English group goes to Pittsburgh
SEKARA ORTEGA
CAITLIN CECIC
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DeCaulp, who presented - literature. “Many people think
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Requiem draws crowd
Threat forces evacuation
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the rooms.
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Student wages may rise
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nize the university can’t pay had higher paid student work-
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Class hosts music event
ALEX D. LAMB
Evacuated students wait on the field in front of Main Building.
Bus stop proving inadequate
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COURTESY OF JENNA BROCKMAN
From left to right: Alyssa DeCaulp, Jenna Brockman, Kate Sepanski, Sarah
Billeiter, Tim Lloyd, back, inside the church Brewworks, a church converted
to a brewery.
object, which turned out to
be an umbrella.
Amador said the university
was gratified by the response
pay higher wages than St.
Edward’s. Additionally, a num-
ber of benchmark schools also
“I think ultimately it should be your
choice,” she said. If you miss class, “you’re
the one that’s going to suffer.”
miller said. “And we recog-
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cates and iPod shuffles to auto-
graphed boxing gloves.
“We just want to put on
an event for people to come
together before finals,” Senior
Kelly Cortez said. “We also
hope that this event will get
the artists’ names out.”
The show is scheduled for
9 p.m at Momo’s Club, 618
West Sixth Street. Doors open
at 7 p.m., and tickets are $5 at
the door and include all four
shows.
Special Transit Service.
Peterson said university
officials and campus master
planners would meet this
week to discuss a solution.
“We want to get all the issues
out and correct them at one
time,” he said. “We thought
it was a good location but we
are now looking into other
areas on campus.”
so many subjects, from racism
to modernity to history and a
million things in between.”
The St. Edward’s students
said they also enjoyed hearing
each other’s presentations.
Sepanski said she really liked
the poetry DeCaulp presented.
“I was really moved and really
impressed. I realized I was
traveling with very talented
peers who had great things to
say. We can all learn from each
other.”
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p
modate.”
Anjelica Ruiz thought the
university’s initial reaction was
er,” Konevich said.
SGA’s report said the univer-
sity is losing qualified individu-
als to off-campus employment.
According to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, the average
wage in Texas for general office
and administrative workers is
$13.50 an hour. At St. Edward’s,
students who work at the com-
students market wages, but
it seems reasonable that the
university pay students livable
wages.”
Konevich said compared to
the universities of similar size
and purpose that St. Edward’s
uses as its benchmark, the uni-
versity’s pay scale ranks near
the bottom.
around talking about the
event.
“I was surprised so many peo-
ple came,” Sophomore Ruby
Ganal said.
This performance was impor-
tant not only for the university
but as a way for the campus
to reach out to the local com-
munity
“I think it was nice to see
outside musicians come to sup-
port St. Edward’s,” Sophomore
Boomer Trujillo said.
experience,” she said. “I got
to hear brilliant and inventive
papers and learn a lot I didn’t
know from writers all over the
country. They all were very
talented.”
Sepanksi, who presented an
essay entitled “Moses, Faust,
and Prometheus: Modernity
in History and Literature,”
said the conference gave her
a newfound appreciation for
sonable. “The university gives
faculty the right to set an
attendance policy and give
a WA (Withdrawal due to
Absences) if the student vio-
lates it,” Lewis said.
If a student misses more
classes than they are allowed,
the professor has the option
of giving the student a grade
of WA for the class.
Instead of only penalizing
absent students, some pro-
fessors provide incentives for
students to attend class.
Junior Analisa Falcon likes
the fact that one of her pro-
fessors will add three points
to her final grade if she does
not miss a single class, two
points if she misses one class,
and one point if she misses
two classes.
“I like the fact that he
rewards his students for being
there,” Falcon said.
Gregory Hennessy, adjunct
professor in the School of
Management and Business,
agrees that instructors should
set their own policies because
each class has different
requirements.
“In some classes, it’s more
self study,” he said. “If you
don’t come to class, you’re
hurting yourself.”
reading literature is something
boring they may have to do for
class, but really it’s something
that everyone should do in
their daily lives,” she said.
“You can learn so much about
will be more inclined to pay
their employees fair wages after
graduation, thereby promoting
the mission statement’s call for
social justice,” Konevich said.
SGA has proposed linking
student wages to an index of
economic conditions, such as
the Consumer Price Index.
SGA has also suggested creat-
ing a panel of university offi-
cials and a student representa-
tive that would evaluate costs
and wages.
Thursday, April 19,2007 NEWS www.StEdwards.edu
‘All the other universities that
surround the Austin area are
little brothers to the University
of Texas. If St. Ed’s is going to
be considered a fine school,
then it has to be known for
producing quality That’s exact-
ly what this performance was
about,” McKelvey said.
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“We tried to get bands that
are well-known but local,”
Senior Mark Barker said.
Money raised at the event
will be donated to the Austin
Music Foundation, a non-
profit organization in Austin
that helps local artists get their
start in the music business.
“They will use all the money to
further the progress of others
and the music scene around
Austin,” Barker said.
A silent auction also will
be held. Auction items, all of
which have all been donated,
range from dinner gift certifi-
Eighteen students from an
Event and Venue Management
class have created their own
production company and are
hosting a musical event April
19.
“Turn it Loose! Showcasing
Austin’s Eclectic Music
Scene,” organized by Planted
Seed Productions, will include
four bands: Fat Mansion,
Dave Madden, The Wartime
Social and The Politics, some
of whose members are St.
Edward’s students.
traffic.”
Ursery said that he wrote
to Perea as well as to Vice
President of Financial
Affairs David Dickson in
January, and that much of
his correspondence was
forwarded to Peterson.
“After three months, when
the spring recital.
“I thought it was well put
together. Michael McKelvey
did an excellent job,” Junior
Libby Dees, said.
“I loved this piece. I was very
energized tonight. We worked
hard and it came together,” alto
vocalist, Jessica Lewis, said.
Even as the event ended,
members of the audience who
could not get a seat stood
All day, as they waited for slow. “I don’t think the halls
it was apparent that little if students, faculty, and staff
anything was happening, I who may need to use the
decided to write an official
letter,” Ursery said. He also
brought the problem to the
attention of the Faculty
Senate.
Ursery was quick to point
out that St. Edward’s is a very
accessible campus. “This is
the only thing I’ve noticed
that is problematic,” he said.
Ursery said the problem
needs to be fixed for future
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a collection of poetry about
relationships as well as an
essay entitled ‘Anthems for
a New Nation,” said she
learned a lot from other young
writers. “It was a really neat
to class without professors
deducting points for atten-
dance. “I think ultimately it
should be your choice,” she
said. If you miss class, “you’re
the one that’s going to suf-
fer.”
Private universities through-
out the state each have differ-
ent attendance rules.
Most, including The
University of Incarnate Word
in San Antonio, Concordia
University in Austin, and
St. Thomas University in
Houston, do not have univer-
sity-wide attendance policies.
At St. Mary’s University in
San Antonio, professors have
the option of dropping stu-
dents who miss the equiva-
lent of two weeks of classes.
Baylor University, on the
other hand, requires students
to attend at least 75 percent
of their classes throughout
the semester, and professors
can require students to attend
more classes if they choose.
St. Edward’s has chosen not
to set an attendance policy
because one set of rules would
not fit all situations.
“Just like you probably
couldn’t get students to agree
to the attendance policy, you
couldn’t get faculty to agree,”
Dean of Academic Standing
Molly Minus said.
John Lewis, a professor in
the School of Natural Sciences
said the existing policy is rea-
“Our research into other col- puter help desk earn between
leges found an overwhelming $6 and $7.25 an hour.
majority of the U.S. News and “When student workers are
World Report top 25 schools treated fairly in college they
Five members of St.
Edward’s chapter of Sigma
Tau Delta chapter, an
international English honor
society, presented their works
at a national conference in
Pittsburgh in late March.
This year’s theme was
“Confluence,” and 500 honor
society members from across
the country came to support
it. St. Edward’s students Tim
Lloyd, Jenna Brockman,
Alyssa DeCaulp, Kate
Sepanski, and Sarah Billeiter
all presented works. The
students were accompanied by
English Literature Professor
Christopher Flynn. The
students were chosen after
submitting their work in the
fall to a panel of St. Edward’s
faculty.
Students were grouped in
panels of three to five, with
each one organized by a topic.
Besides listening to other
students’ presentations, the
conference participants also
had the opportunity to listen
to nationally renowned writers.
DeCaulp and Sepanski, both
juniors majoring in English
Writing and Rhetoric, enjoyed
hearing Canadian born writer
David Rakoff, a talented
essayist and satirist known for
his dry humor and wit. “It’s
always great to hear people
reading their own works,
because they really bring it
alive for you,” Sepanski said.
the university to be secured, were evacuated until about of students and the speed with
students posted comments on 8:40 a.m. I just wish they had which police officials worked,
various web sites including the moved more quickly in evacu- “When I arrived on campus, I
Austin American-Statesman’s ating the halls and emailing was really surprised and proud
blog. everyone,” Ruiz wrote. of the way the evacuation hap-
“I’m very impressed with St. Edward’s was not the only pened and how calm people
the response time and campus Tuesday to receive were,” Amador said. “People
organization of our very a threat. The University of were standing in the drizzle
small University Police Tennessee at Chattanooga in the soccer fields. The way
Department,” Sarah Germick was evacuated for about two people responded was posi-
wrote. “For those of us with hours after receiving a tele- tive and orderly Most people
research papers and presen- phone bomb threat. The felt we had done a good job. ’
tations this busy week, they University of Oklahoma also
can wait and be rescheduled, got a scare. There was some- seuhilltopviews@stedwards.edu
Our professors will accom- one carrying a suspicious
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A persistent complaint
among students at St.
Edward’s is that they are
penalized for missing class.
And coupled with that com-
plaint is that the university
does not have campus wide
attendance rules. It’s up to
each professor to make the
call.
“I don’t think we should
have an attendance policy at
all,” Junior Dianne Saathoff
said. “We are accountable
for anything we miss in class.
That is reflected in our grades
and attendance should not be
part of our final scores.”
The undergraduate bulletin
states that while the univer-
sity considers regular atten-
dance in all classes to be one
of the important obligations
of each student, instructors
decide the policy they want to
put in place.
But they explain their
expectations to the class in
writing at the beginning of
the semester, and they can’t
change their mind half way
through the year.
In most cases, instructors
allow students to miss three
classes.
SophomoreNathanKennedy
thinks the typical three class
rule is too restrictive.
“I like the idea of having a
policy that says people have
to be in a class, but when you
put it in practice, it doesn’t
leave a lot of room for outside
circumstances,” he said.
Junior Doreen-Marie
Esparza says that students
should be able to make their
own decision about going
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