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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 16,2003
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POLICE BLOTTER
The following items were reported to the University Police for the period
April 21 - May 13.
Residential Colleges
Brown College
Lovett College
Martel College
Baker College
April 26 Intoxicated male arrested and sent
to Harris County Jail.
May 5 Subject arrested for criminal
trespassing and sent to Harris
County Jail.
May 9 Suspicious individual arrested for
public intoxication and sentto Harris
County Jail.
May 12 Personal refrigerator stolen.
Academic Buildings
Alice Pratt Brown Hall April 30
Duncan Hall
Baker Hall
Other Buildings
North Servery
Allen Center
Willy's Pub
Fondren Library
May 8
May 12
April 22
April 24
April 24
April 26
Rice Memorial Center April 28
Graduate House
Apartments
Gymnasium
Parking Lots
West Lot
May 4
May 13
April 22
Lovett Lot April 26
North Colleges Lot April 30
Other Areas
Entrance #2
April 24
Rice University May 1
Entrance #13
Entrance #1
May 1
May 6
Bicycle stolen.
Laptop reported missing.
Bricks near the Jamail Plaza appear
to have been burnt in an incident of
vandalism. In addition, writing was
found on a faucet in a restroom.
Money stolen from a purse.
Cashier's Office reported two counts
of theft by check.
Underage student observed
consuming alcohol.
Student reported that he left his
laptop in the library and went to
lunch. When he returned, the laptop
was gone.
Permanently attached Rice Cinema
fliers were found on the building.
Vehicle keyed and two tires
flattened.
Vacuum cleaner reported missing.
Bicycle stolen. The bike was not
secured or registered, and the serial
number is unknown.
Minor two-car accident.
Vehicle booted for excessive tickets.
The subject removed the boot from
the vehicle and left campus, taking
the boot with him. The subject was
later arrested and sent to Harris
County Jail for theft.
Call from Houston Police Department
regarding a subject masturbating at
Sunset Blvd and Main Street. Subject
was arrested and sent to Harris
County Jail. (See Story, Page 10.)
Student reported a
international passport.
missing
Bicycle stolen. A subject was arrested
for theft and criminal trespass
and sent to Harris County Jail.
Officer reported a possible car
burglary to a white Jeep.
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positions.
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Saturday between 1:30 and 3 p.m.
(713) 523-9958.905 Taft Street.
Distribution credit awarded for more APs
by Ian Everhart
THRESHER STAFF
Credits awarded for Advanced
Placement exams in U.S. History
and Physics B now carry distribu-
tion credit — Group II for U.S. His-
tory and Group III for Physics B.
Dean of Humanities Gale Stokes,
who oversaw the credit associated
with the AP U.S. History exam, said
the change was made last month to
correct an oversight made when a
new course was added. Dean of Natu-
ral Sciences Kathleen Matthews
characterized the change to the phys-
ics exam as making the award of
distribution fall in line with the chem-
istry and biology exams.
Stokes said that in previous years,
there was no equivalent survey course
to the material covered in the AP U.S.
History exam in the history depart-
ment. For the past two years, stu-
dents with the exam were awarded
six credits for HIST
105/106, courses that Stokes charac-
terized as "fictitious" because they
were not offered at Rice. Students did
not receive distribution credit for the
course. Prior to the class that ma-
triculated in August 2001, students
with AP U.S. History credit received
six hours of HIST X credit, which
counted for Group II distribution.
"We didn't want to give [distribu-
tion] credit [unlessitwas] oneofthe
courses that transferred directly in,"
Stokes said.
The past two years or so, he said,
have seen the introduction of HIST
117 and 118, which are American His-
tory survey courses covering material
similar to that on the AP syllabus.
What should have been done when
that course was started, he said, was
to begin to code AP credit as HIST
117/118, which does receive Group II
distribution credit. Instead, Stokes
said, students continued to receive
credit for HIST 105/106.
"Somehow, it slipped through the
cracks, and [students didn't] get dis-
tribution credit for it," Stokes said.
In the middle of the Spring 2003
semester, the Registrar notified sev-
eral seniors that they did not have
sufficient Group II credits, and those
students petitioned Stokes to award
distribution credit for the AP U.S.
History test.
SISWeb accounts originally
showed distribution credit for the
history course to those freshmen
and sophomores with AP U.S. His-
tory credit; however, Registrar Jerry
Montag said the credit was removed
early in the spring semester.
"That was an error," Montag said.
"We made a change to the system, and
we notified the student community."
Stokes said he and Montag dis-
cussed the possibility of having AP
U.S. History count as distribution.
"[The Registrar] came over to
talk to me about it, and I realized that
this was a mistake, that this should
get distribution," Stokes said. "In
the future, AP credit for American
History should get credit for [HIST]
117/118."
"It's no big structural change or
changing of the criteria," Stokes said.
"It's just the realization that this had
never been actually looked at."
Matthews said the decision to
award Group III distribution credit
for the AP Physics B exam was made
on the basis of the policies of other
departments for other AP exams.
"AP credit in other areas was
given a course number and that those
courses were courses that counted
for distribution," Matthews said.
In previous years, students have
received seven hours' worth of credit
for PHYS X for scoring a 4 or 5 on the
AP Physics B exam. Now, she said,
students will get six hours of credit for
PHYS 141/142, which will count as
Ciroup III courses. Matthews said the
discrepancy was pointed out by the
Physics and Astronomy department.
"[PHYS 141 and 142] are not
taught at the present time but they're
on the books and cover comparable
material of that on the Advanced
Placement test," she said.
Physics 141/142 is known as
"Conceptual Physics" and is non-
calculus based. Stan Dodds, the As-
sociate Chair of the Physics and
Astronomy department, said the
department had originally recom-
mended that the Physics B exam,
which is not a calculus-based course,
be awarded six hours of PHYS X
with the distribution credit, but it
became seven hours without distri-
bution. He said the AP Physics C
curriculum is quite similar to PHYS
101/102 and it gets seven hours with
distribution.
"There was an asymmetry in how
it was being treated because there
had not been a comparable course
that the physics department felt that
they could give credit for," Matthews
said. "This was what they came up
with [as] a way of balancing what
was perceived to be an inequity."
Matthews said current students with
PHYS X credit will have the opportu-
nity to retain that or convert it to
PHYS 141/142, but all students in
the future will receive PHYS 141/
142 credit.
Kristi Sikes, a Will Rice College
sophomore, said she has not been
very pleased with the distribution
system overall. Sikes, who trans-
ferred mid-year from the University
of California at Berkeley, said she
has had some trouble getting
courses she took at Berkeley to count
as courses towards a major, let alone
distribution credit. She wishes the
system of distribution were simpler.
"It should either be all the AP
courses give you the distribution or
none of them do, regardless of
whether there's an equivalent
course," she said.
Baker College senior Dan Castle
agreed.
"If you're going to get credit for
[an API course, there doesn't seem
to be any reason why you shouldn't
get distribution credit for it," he said.
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