Students frustrated with course load and quality of classes have a chance to implement change next semester through the Student Association’s plan for a curricular review.

The SA announced plans Monday night to implement the review sometime during the spring semester to examine whether or not a change in the curriculum is necessary, said SA President Andrew Lederman.

‘Students feel some classes aren’t required or are too restricting (for their majors),’ Lederman said.

Lederman decided to push for a curricular review after meeting with the president of the Student Government Association at Harvard University. Harvard’s SGA completed its review last year.

If the review is carried out, it will involve the entire Syracuse University community, including faculty and students.

‘The students have a right to input what the curriculum should be,’ Lederman said.

In other SA news:

n The SA will hold debates between candidates for comptroller and president next week in Maxwell Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.

The debates will be moderated by Jessie Cordova, of SA’s Board of Elections, and will feature questions from audience members. Among the items up for debate is the naming of the student section for SU basketball games.

n SA discussed items up for referendum during this year’s SA elections.

Students will have the opportunity to vote for the new name for the SU basketball student section. Some of the names being considered for the section are Otto’s Army, Orange Wave, The Juice Box, Orange Asylum, and The Juicer. Students who wish to submit name ideas to SA can send them via e-mail to syracusestudentsection@gmail.com.

Another item up for vote is whether or not to approve a bill changing the name of the Student Association to the Student Government Association.

Published on October 25, 2004 at 12:00 pm