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Students Play Questionable Role In Selection
Of Two High-Ranking University Officials

Replacement Committee Stalemated

By JENNIFER LEVIN

The Committee to recommend a successor to Vice President
for Student Affairs D. Alan Williams met last Thursday and
according to the chairman, Faculty Dean Robert D. Cross, "the
committee has become stalemated."

Although Mr. Cross had hoped the committee would have
been able to recommend at least five or six well-qualified
candidates to President Edgar F. Shannon earlier in the year, he
met with Mr. Shannon last week and recommended "two or
three" candidates from the University community and also
from outside the school.

Mr. Shannon is expected to notify Mr. Cross in the next few
days concerning the future of the committee. Mr. Cross expects
the committee will be asked to continue and "unless something
surprising happens in the next few weeks, they will be back in
the same boat in the fall."

Mr. Cross emphasized that the committee did not want to
settle for "just anyone and that [they] wanted to get someone
really good."

The committee has set about 45 different qualifications they
believe are necessary for a Student Affairs Vice-President. "We
are looking for someone who would be a first-class
administrator, a first-class faculty member, and a first-class