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Relations Group
Passes New Rule

The Human Relations Council
passed the following resolution in
regard to student housing at its last
meeting.

In view of the recent interest in
off-grounds housing, we
strongly urge the adoption of
the following recommendation:

1) That the structure of the
present University Housing
Committee be changed to include
half students and half
faculty and administration, the
students to be appointed by a
majority vote of the Student
Council. The students are the
people most immediately concerned
with the student housing
situation, and there has been an
evident lack of communication
with them.

2) That an ad hoe committee
be appointed to investigate the
entire scope of the University's
housing policy, that this committee
be appointed by the
President of the Student
Council, the President of the
Faculty Senate, and the
Director of the University
Housing Office (or their representatives),
in joint consultation,
that this commitee be
composed half of students and
half of faculty and administration,
and that this committee
present its recommendations on
student housing to the President
of the University for appropriate
action.

Copies of this resolution were
sent to Mr. Titus, Mr. Shannon, and
Mr. Saunier.

The entire student housing situation
seems terribly confused to us.
The staff of the University Housing
Office seems very overworked, and
the present University Housing
Committee seems very unaware of,
or unresponsive to, some of the
basic problems. This resolution is a
preliminary effort to find viable
solutions.

ROTC Stand

Why was the article on "Pittsburgh
Drops Credit for ROTC
Courses" shunted off to the back
page between the "Rotunda Tree"
and Peanuts, rather than being
given the banner headlines it
deserved? Indeed, why was Peanuts
put on the back page? - it's far and
away your best regular feature.
Most importantly, why doesn't a
responsible University official declare
publicly why we have not
followed Pittsburgh's example in
dealing with ROTC?

Captain Meade's revelation that
ROTC courses are recommended by
the Dept. Of the Army is totally
irrelevant to our objections, to
them: it says nothing about the
anti-intellectual nature of those
courses (or is he merely "name
dropping?"). Furthermore, the Dept.
of the Army is hardly infallible -
one of its latest goofs was to advise
President Johnson in the early
summer of 1965 that American
combat troops, in introduced into
Viet-Nam, could have that country
"pacified." and begin to withdraw,
in the late fall of that year (!).

I suggest that ROTC be relegated
to its proper place as an
off-grounds military training center,
without University credit - or that
the administration publicly rationalize
its presence here (both it's
presence, and that of ROTC).

Falvey Omitted

Yesterday's letter on the
Judiciary Committee was also from
Mr. Falvey. His name was omitted
by accident. - ed.

Falvey Praise

Although I am generally in
disagreement with the Students for
a Democratic Society's ideologies,
and especially the anarchistic and
unstructured methods of the SDS, I
must commend Tom Falvey on his
letter of Dec. 11.

His remarks are perceptive,
rational; even pragmatic; perhaps
prophetic.

SWMSPCHCECT

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