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Ad Hoc Group Proposes
Student-Faculty Senate

Mr. Ogle was heartened by the
fact that the Council motion was
passed unanimously, reasoning that
it showed that the proposal had
wide support throughout the University.

The ad hoc committee's rough
draft gives one possible membership
outline that could be studied.
Under these guidelines, a Senate of
less than 100 members might be
composed of the following units:
10 percent administration members,
40 percent tenured faculty, 20
percent untenured faculty, 20 percent
student members, with the
remaining 10 percent being comprised
of alumni and various staff
members.

Columbia University has set up
such a body since the student riots
of the spring of 1968. Other
schools which instituted the proposal
include the University of New
Hampshire, the University of Kansas
and the State University of New
York at Binghamton.

This plan, the committee
stresses, is to serve only as a
guideline for the University. It was
drawn up by various faculty members
and students who used the
proposals adopted by the other
schools like Columbia as their own
guidelines.

A spokesman for the group also
stressed that any reform of the
University Senate must be developed
by the Senate itself.

The object of the committee is
not to try to force the changes but
to develop an interest throughout
the University community for a
successful revitalization of the Senate
as an organ to deal with the
pressing issues, he explained.