Assembly tries to raise policy awareness

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Academic Assembly met last night and passed legislation 12-0 to request the cooperation of associate deans and other university officials to raise student awareness of an existing policy regarding classroom problems.

The University Faculty Senate policy "Resolution of Student Classroom Problems" exists because "students are occasionally confronted with classroom situations... that cause them concern and/or inconvenience."

George Chriss, Academic Assembly faculty senator for the Eberly College of Science, said an example of a problematic classroom situation would be a student smoking in class and nobody doing anything about it.

The assembly hopes to help promote the policy by sending a letter asking the deans to encourage their instructors to reference the policy on their syllabi, to include readily available information on departmental and/or administrative unit Web sites, and to discuss the policy with students at events like freshman orientation.

"We feel students aren't aware of the policy," Chriss said. "We want students to know they can approach the department heads and academic deans with any classroom problems they may encounter."

McGraw, Hill to perform at BJC in June

Husband and wife country singers, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill will bring their Soul 2 Soul II Tour to the Bryce Jordan Center at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21.

Tickets for the concert go on sale at 10:00 a.m. Friday and are priced at $35, $60 and $85. Tickets can be purchased at the Bryce Jordan Ticket Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Tickets Downtown, the Altoona Campus ticket outlet, all Ticketmaster locations, or charged by phone at 814-865-5555, or 800-863-3336, or online at www.bjc.psu.edu.