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Students Present Ideas To Committee
On Faculty Meetings During Conference

Students and members of the faculty
met last week with a committee of the
faculty of the college to present their
respective cases as to why or why not
meetings of the faculty should be open to
students.

At the Thursday meeting with the
committee, which is composed of Ralph
Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Government
and Foreign Affairs (Chairman); Fred A.
Diehl, Assistant Professor of Biology (Secretary);
Arthur C. Kirsch, Associate Professor of
English; Bernard Mayo, Professor of History;
and Marvin Rosenblum, Professor of Mathematics,
approximately 20 students, including
most of the college representatives on the
Student Council explained why they thought
the meetings should be open to students.

Bud Ogle, President of the Student
Council, began the session by saying that he
thought opening the faculty meetings would
help end the "depersonalization" of higher
education and help establish "honor and trust"
between students and faculty at the University.

Charles Murdock, a Student Council representative
from the College, said that the mere
presence of students at faculty meetings would
not be enough, he felt, but that the students
should also be allowed to participate in the
debate.

Tom Bin a Student Council representative
from the Graduate College of Arts and
Sciences, noted that he had attended large
meetings of Jesuits where everyone participated
and which were kept under order. He said he
did not think there would be problems with
disruptive students if they were admitted to the
faculty meetings.

Kevin Mannix, another Student Council
representative from the College, said that he
thought Dean Shannon could effectively
control the larger crowd that the open meetings
would entail.

But John Kwapisz, who is not a student at
the University, but is chairman of the Virginia
chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom,
said that although he felt the meetings of the
faculty should be open to students, he was
wary of the "circus atmosphere" that might
result from open meetings.

Also discussed at the Thursday meeting was
the request of the Student Council to review
resolutions brought up by the faculty that
concerned student interests. Mr. Eisenberg
noted that it would be difficult to determine
which resolutions were of concern to students.

Friday, approximately six faculty members
showed up a meeting scheduled to hear their
side of the open faculty debate.

Mr. Eisenberg told The Cavalier Daily
yesterday that he expected his committee to
make their report sometime after the Christmas
break. He said that any student or member of
the faculty who was unable to attend either of
the two meetings and who would like to
express an opinion on opening the faculty
meetings to students could write to any
member of the committee.