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Provost Declines

David A. Shannon, Provost of the
University and chairman of the Committee of
the Future of the University, informed Student
Council Monday that he had "no intention of
attending" the open Council meeting held last
night concerning problems of expansion.

The two reasons he offered for not being
present were: "first, that the Committee on the
Future of the University and the relevant
subcommittee have already met within the past
twelve days...and second, that it seems to me
that an open meeting, with the kind of
atmosphere one can expect at such a meeting
after twenty-four hours of demonstrations,
would be of no value to the Committee in
dealing with the serious problems it has to
face."

Four others of the 26-member committee
also declined to attend, for various reasons, the
open Council meeting. Robert J. Harris,
professor of government and history, David B.
Hamed, professor of religious studies, Ralph
Eisenberg, of the Provost's office, and Edwin
M. Crawford, Vice-President for Public Affairs.