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REGULATIONS

(1) The Session-Hour.—All courses are measured in terms of the session-hour
as a unit. A session-hour is one hour a week throughout the
session of lecture or recitation, or two hours a week throughout the session
of laboratory work.

(2) Maximum and Minimum Number of Session-Hours.—Each college
student is required to undertake each session courses aggregating at least 15
session-hours (with the exception noted under Probation below). This number
may be increased in the following cases:

(I) Any first-year student may take 18 session-hours, provided he
is credited with 6 session-hours of advanced standing.

(II) A student not in his first year in the College of Arts and Sciences
may take 18 session-hours, provided he (a) has passed in the preceding
session or in the third term thereof courses aggregating 15 session-hours, or
(b) is in his graduating year and needs 18 session-hours for his degree.

(III) A student not in his first year may take 21 session-hours provided
he passed in the preceding session or in the third term thereof courses
aggregating 18 session-hours.

(IV) Any student whose term grade (or class grade, if the term grade
is not available) for the first or second term is at least 75 per cent. in each of
his courses, may take 3 additional session-hours for the ensuing term.

Physical Education is not counted in the maximum and minimum requirements
detailed above.

Exceptions to the above regulations will be allowed only by special permission
of the Committee on Rules and Courses.

(3) Grade.—The grade of a college student in any course either for a
term or for the session, is determined by his class standing and his examination
grade, combined in such proportion as the professor in charge of the
course in question may decide. Class standing in any course is determined
by the regularity of the student's attendance upon the lectures (and laboratory
or other similar exercise) of the course, and by the quality of his work,
as indicated by his recitation grades, written tests, laboratory work, etc. For
passing in any course in the college a grade of 75 per cent. is required.

(4) Exclusion from Courses, Probation and Suspension:

(I) Exclusion from Courses:

1. A student who is evidently making no real progress in a course, may,
at any time during the session, be excluded from the course by the Dean
upon recommendation of the instructor concerned.

2. A student whose term grade in a course is less than 50 per cent., or
who discontinues the course without permission of the Dean, or who is absent
without excuse from the term examination, will be excluded from the course.

(II) Probation and Suspension:

1. Probation is a state of warning, involving withdrawal from the student
of certain privileges enumerated below. Suspension means forced
withdrawal from the College.

2. A student will be placed on probation if, in any term, he does not pass
on 6 hours of work; and, if he shall be excluded from a course or courses,
he must, in order to avoid probation, pass on a number of hours 6 in excess
of the number from which he is excluded.

A student will be suspended if, in any term, he does not pass on 3 hours
of work; and, if he shall be excluded from a course or courses, he must,
in order to escape suspension, pass on a number of hours 3 in excess of the
number from which he is excluded.

3. A student on probation must carry at least 12 hours of work or be
suspended. A student not on probation must carry at least 15 hours of
work or be placed on probation.

4. No student may remain on probation for more than two terms in his
entire college course. If his record is such as to invoke probation a third
time, he will be suspended. No student suspended a second time may reenter
the College.

5. No student on probation may be a member of any student organization
which publicly represents the University, such as an athletic team, a
musical club or a student publication.

6. Suspension, if imposed during the session, applies to the remainder
of the regular session; if imposed at the end of the session, it applies to the
whole of the subsequent session.

7. Probation or suspension may be absolved by the completion of 3
session-hours of work in one term of the Summer Quarter.

8. A student who is permitted to withdraw from the University during
the session will be re-admitted only on probation if, at the time of his withdrawal,
he was on probation. A student previously suspended will be readmitted
only on probation.

9. The application of these regulations is automatic. A student may,
however, appeal in writing to the Committee on Rules and Courses for
relief from their application. The Committee is empowered to grant relief
for just cause.

(5) Absence from Examinations will not be excused except for sickness
on the day of examination, attested by a physician's certificate, or for other
cause which the Faculty by special order may approve. An unexcused absence is
counted as a total failure.

A student excused from more than one-half of his term examinations on
account of illness may not be a member of any student organization which
publicly represents the University, such as an athletic team, a musical club,
or a student publication, until he has taken his examinations.

No student may remain in the College if he misses all the examinations
of two consecutive terms on account of illness.

(6) Special Examinations.—A student whose absence from an examination
is excused, in accordance with (5) above, is entitled to a special
examination on a date during the regular session to be arranged between
himself and the professor in charge of the examination.

(7) Re-Examinations.—A candidate for an academic degree who fails
on only one of his courses during his final session of candidacy is entitled to
a special re-examination on the work of that course before the final day,
provided that he average at least 65 per cent. on the work of the three terms,
and provided the professor in charge recommends that the candidate be
granted a re-examination. The professor in charge is to decide whether the
candidate is to stand a re-examination upon the whole course, or upon some
portion or portions of the course. No fee is charged for such re-examination.

It should be carefully noted that no student is entitled to more than one
re-examination on a given course without repeating the course.

(8) Reports.—Reports are sent at the end of each term to the parent
or guardian of each student.

In addition to the above, a report on the standing of each first-year student
in the College is sent to the student's parent or guardian early in
November.

(9) Conduct.—The laws of the University require from every student
decorous, sober, and upright conduct as long as he remains a member of the
University, whether he be within the precincts or anywhere else. Drunkenness,
gambling, and dissoluteness are strictly forbidden, and the President
may dismiss from the University for the residue of the current session every
student found guilty of them, or may administer such other discipline as
seems best under the circumstances.

The President will dismiss from the University every student convicted
of public drunkenness, or of other conduct reflecting serious discredit upon
the University.

In all cases of discipline, the law requires that the student must first be
informed of the objections to his conduct and afforded an opportunity of
explanation and defense.

The keeping of dogs by students within the University grounds is forbidden.

Motor driven vehicles either owned or operated by students are prohibited
from parking in the roadways and alleys of the University grounds
between the hours of 8:30 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. However, students suffering
from serious physical disability, or living more than two miles outside
the city limits, may be granted permits to park.

(10) Voluntary Withdrawal.—Voluntary withdrawal from the University
requires the written consent of the Dean, as well as the consent of the
student's parent or guardian, if he is a minor. Any student who withdraws
without permission will be recorded as having been suspended.

(11) Enforced Withdrawal is inflicted for habitual delinquency in class,
habitual idleness, or any other fault which prevents the student from fulfilling
the purposes for which he should have come to the University. See also
Suspension, above.

(12) Change of Studies.—No change can be made in a student's program
of studies except with the written consent of the Dean, together with
official notification by the Registrar. No permit for change of courses will
be issued after the end of the first week of each term. Any student who
drops a course without permission will receive a grade of zero in that course;
and no credit may be received for any portion of a course attended before
formal permission has been granted as outlined above.

(13) Absence from Lectures may be excused by the Dean, but only for
sickness or other imperative cause. Any explanation of an absence which a
student has to offer must be made in writing to the Dean within one week
after the absence. But no excuse for an absence may be submitted after the beginning
of an examination period.

Any student not on probation is allowed 2 absences without penalty
each term in each course, and a student who passed, in the preceding term,
on all courses taken, aggregating not less than 15 term-hours, is allowed
4 absences without penalty each term in each course. But the performance
of written work and laboratory work is not affected by the allowance of
absences without penalty.

Each unexcused absence (in excess of absences without penalty) from
a class exercise in any term will cause one point to be deducted from the
student's term grade.

A total of more than 10 unexcused absences (in excess of absences without
penalty) in any term will cause a student to be placed on probation.
Probation imposed for absences is called "attendance probation," and it carries
the penalties of probation imposed for failure in courses. If a student
incurs attendance probation while on probation for failure in courses he will
be suspended.

No student who was, for any reason, absent from more than 50 per cent.
of the lectures of a course in any term can receive a grade on the course in
that term. This regulation does not apply to students on the Dean's List or
to holders of Intermediate Honors.

The laws relating to absence from the University of members of athletic
teams are found in the General Catalogue. The same regulations apply,
mutatis mutandis, to members of other student organizations.

(14) The Dean's List.—Any student who passed, in the preceding term,
on all courses taken, aggregating not less than 15 term-hours, with an average
grade on all courses of at least 85 per cent., will be placed on the Dean's
List.

A student on the Dean's List is not subject to the regulations limiting
absence from classes, nor does absence from any class entail on such student
any penalty, affecting class standing, imposed for absence alone. But the
performance of written work and laboratory work is not affected by these
regulations.

(15) Physical Education Requirement.—All first- and second-year students
in the College of Arts and Sciences, except professional students of
Architecture, are required to take the course in Physical Education unless
excused on a physician's certificate.