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CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT POLICIES If you are absent see or call the instructor as soon as possible to arrange a time for a make-up lab. ATHLETES!! You already know your travel schedule (post-season tournaments excepted), so discuss any labs you may miss with your instructor NOW!! You can make definitive arrangements later (week of the lab) but let them know now. You are expected to complete all missed lab work either on another day during the week an experiment is given or during that week immediately following. If you will be gone on a family emergency, or are hospitalized please have someone notify us so we can set aside or remake what you will need. Otherwise, since we do not – and in some cases cannot store reagents indefinitely, you will have to make your own solutions as well as perform the experiment. Note that an excusal form allows you to make up the lab; it does not change the original due date of the laboratory report. If you do comply with the rule about excusal forms or abuse the use of them we may not be able to give credit for your work. These forms are necessary to preserve equity for everyone. There will be a charge assessed on any damaged instrument, and on certain community items that are particularly expensive and hard to replace. If you drop the course you must check out of your lab drawer or be assessed a $25 fine. All appeals on grading problems will be considered by the instructor in charge only if they are in writing. We reserve the right to regrade the entire test or report if any part of it is appealed. For scientific questions, start by seeing your instructor. If your instructor is not available consult another lab instructor. Office hours for lab instructors will be posted in the department’s board in the hall. If you have exhausted these reasonable resources, consult the professor in charge of coordinating the labs. Since this course is so large, he will see students in order as they request to consult him. Your reports must be in by the beginning of your regularly scheduled period of the week following completion of the experiment. You will be penalized 5% of the total possible points for each additional day that a report is handed in late. Extensions will be granted only by instructor.