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Meet U-Houston at So. Arkansas Meet
OrienteersTry For Undefeated Season
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By PHIL HAMILTON '
The Hardin-Simmons Orienteering'
team is scheduled to attempt to push
their winning streak to four tomorrow
when the team travels to Southern Ar-
kansas University for an orienteering
meet.
Although the team is the defending na-
tional champion the meet in Magnolia
Ark. will not be easy. The team mem-
bers will be in competition with the Uni-
versity of Houston which beat the team
last year at the meet and several other
good orienteering teams from other
schools.
The team's coach Sgim Landry said
"The terrain is hilly and has consid-
erably more relief in elevation than the
previous meets attended by the orien-
teers this season." Greater relief in ele-
vation means steeper hills which have to
be run up and down while negotiating
the course.
This is the final meet of the fall and
should the team place first as it has in
the past three meets the team will have
gone undefeated .throughout the fall sea-
sort. -
Those persons who will be competing
on the varsity team in this weekend's
meet include Tom Shelton (HSU) and
Rick Strange (HSU) who is starting is
place of James Stevens (ACU) who will
be unable to attend the meet.
The other members of the orienteers
include Janet Killmer Leta Robinson
Melvin Compton and Michele Trull.
Additional meets are also scheduled
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and the team is scheduled to try to win a
second national championship in April.
Faculty Tables
Honors Revision
By Students
By GREG JAKLEWICZ
Brand Editor
The Hardin-Simmons faculty moved to
table a revisement of the university hon-
ors system until its January meeting.
The HSU faculty met in its monthly
meeting Wednesday afternoon and lis-
tened to arguments in favor of a revise-
ment by Gary Risley member of
Student Congress and chairman of the
Congress Academics Committee.
Dr. Charles Garraway introduced the
proposal to the faculty and then turned
the discussion over to Risley.
The honors system currently in use at
Hardin-Simmons defines a student mak-
ing all A's as attaining Dean's List
status while a student earning a 3.70 av-
erage for the semester is awarded an
Honor Roll standing. There is also a mi-
nor award the Honorable Mention Roll
for students maintaining a 3.70taverage
and taking between 6-11 hours.
Risley's proposal is to lower the Honor
Roll to 3.50 lower the Dean's List to 3.70
and establish' a President's List at 4.0.
These figures would then be more in
conjunction with the undergraduate hon-
ors given by the university at gradu-
ation...cum laude (3.50) magna cum
laude (3.70) and summa cum laude
(3.85).
The effort in adjusting the honors sys-
tem is not one to lower the academic
standards of the university but to bring
them more in line with those observed
by other Texas colleges and universities.
Risley offered two furth explanations.
One is that the current system does not
provide enough incentive for students
and a second reason is that the work of
many deserving students goes unnoticed.
Risley read a resolution from Student
Congress unanimously supporting a
change in the current system.
Biology professor Dr. George Newman
stated that the "limitations are very
high" with the current system but would
the students accept a two level system.
A question was brought up concerning
the number of student attaining honors
recognition at HSU. Dr. Garraway read
from his notes that in Fall semesters of
1976-77 1977-78 and 1978-79 listed 58 52
and 57 students at Dean's List and 72 74
and 60 students achieving Honor Roll
status.
Sociolog professor Dr. Julian Bridges
suggested that Risley check the percent-
age of students receiving honors at HSU
against those at other colleges and uni-
versities. History professor Dr. B.W. As-
ton argued that percentages "don't have
anything to do with it."
The faculty voted unanimously to wait
until its January meeting to hear more
information on the issue.
n?.r.MmtBCt CltyUm president of the
HSU faculty thanked Risley and student
representatives Philip Ashby Cathy
Fisher and Greg Jaklewici for their in-
terest and atteadaace.
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