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ASG calls for synchronized campus clocks
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Rachel Williams
Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: News
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The Associated Student Government Senate considered a bill Tuesday which would require the ASG Press Relations Committee and ASG President Nate Looney to work with UA administration to develop a system for synchronizing clocks across the UA campus.
"At no point and time during the day can students travel between two buildings and see the clocks set for the same time in every building or the clocks in the same building set for the same time," according to the bill, introduced by Sen. Jonathan Powell of the College of Engineering.
"Basically, we're asking the university to get it together," Powell said. "You can look at Old Main, and the clocks don't match."
Powell told about his own experience in which he had to move between classes in Kimpel Hall and the Bell Engineering building and found the time displayed in each building different by five minutes.
Despite the problem, Powell said, students were penalized a letter grade for tardiness.
"I'm requesting that we get a synchronized clock system such that every clock on campus would be the same," Powell said.
Senators expressed concern at the cost of implementing such a program and discussed alternatives, such as the manual resetting of clocks.
The goal is to "work together with the university administration and find some way to get it done," Powell said.
The Senate also established standing rules for the year's Senate meetings.
A resolution encouraging the use of free textbook Web sites was passed with an amendment broadening the language to include Web sites other than Freeload Press.
In his opening address to the Senate, ASG President Nate Looney highlighted the upcoming meeting of the Safe Ride committee.
"From what I can tell, the numbers are up. That's good. I'm glad to see people are using the program," Looney said.
Although has increased, the committee will consider "a lot of ideas as far as publicity goes to help reach more students," Looney said
Looney and Bob Duffy, USA Today's liaisons for the UA Razorback Readership Program, will meet with the Dean's Council next week to discuss expanding the use of the program, said Dayna Wolek, the adviser for ASG.
"We want to try to include [the program] more into the academic arena of students' lives," Looney said.
Looney cited the example of a course he took in which the professor began each class with a discussion of recent news articles and then related the current events to the day's lecture.
The UA Readership Program was one of the top 20 in the country last year, Looney said.
"Last year, students read over a quarter-million papers."
The goal for this year is to increase readership to 275,000 papers a year, Looney said.
"At no point and time during the day can students travel between two buildings and see the clocks set for the same time in every building or the clocks in the same building set for the same time," according to the bill, introduced by Sen. Jonathan Powell of the College of Engineering.
"Basically, we're asking the university to get it together," Powell said. "You can look at Old Main, and the clocks don't match."
Powell told about his own experience in which he had to move between classes in Kimpel Hall and the Bell Engineering building and found the time displayed in each building different by five minutes.
Despite the problem, Powell said, students were penalized a letter grade for tardiness.
"I'm requesting that we get a synchronized clock system such that every clock on campus would be the same," Powell said.
Senators expressed concern at the cost of implementing such a program and discussed alternatives, such as the manual resetting of clocks.
The goal is to "work together with the university administration and find some way to get it done," Powell said.
The Senate also established standing rules for the year's Senate meetings.
A resolution encouraging the use of free textbook Web sites was passed with an amendment broadening the language to include Web sites other than Freeload Press.
In his opening address to the Senate, ASG President Nate Looney highlighted the upcoming meeting of the Safe Ride committee.
"From what I can tell, the numbers are up. That's good. I'm glad to see people are using the program," Looney said.
Although has increased, the committee will consider "a lot of ideas as far as publicity goes to help reach more students," Looney said
Looney and Bob Duffy, USA Today's liaisons for the UA Razorback Readership Program, will meet with the Dean's Council next week to discuss expanding the use of the program, said Dayna Wolek, the adviser for ASG.
"We want to try to include [the program] more into the academic arena of students' lives," Looney said.
Looney cited the example of a course he took in which the professor began each class with a discussion of recent news articles and then related the current events to the day's lecture.
The UA Readership Program was one of the top 20 in the country last year, Looney said.
"Last year, students read over a quarter-million papers."
The goal for this year is to increase readership to 275,000 papers a year, Looney said.
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