While SGA is taking action Tueday night against the new grading scale that would add a minus sign into grade point averages, the younger student representatives have bowed down to it.

At last week’s Freshman Council meeting, chairman and freshman in biological sciences Alex Porter said he is upset with the new grading system because students did not have input.

“It will probably pass,” Porter said. “We just kind of wanted student participation to come out. It is open to anybody. You will not be able to voice your opinion, but by being there you’re voicing the students’ opinion.

“It is not an issue of are you for or against it. They really kind of did it without any student knowledge,” Porter said.

He said he wants students to be at the Nov. 19 faculty senate meeting when the senate will vote on approving the Undergraduate Council’s minutes. If the senate approves the minutes, UT will add a minus sign to its undergraduate grading system.

“We need to be there. The next time they pass something like this there will be more student notification of this,” Porter said. “Tell a lot of students about this. Let everybody know.”

The floor was passed to Alex Marcus, parliamentarian and freshman in political science, who presented the first bill of the year. The bill, scheduled for a vote on Thursday, Nov. 8, will establish a forensics program where students compete in acting, speech and debate contests. He said if the bill passes students will participate in tournaments around the country, and UT will join the American Forensic Association.