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Dissatisfaction

"The Student Council's
dissatisfaction with the manner in
which Mr. Titus and the
Off-Grounds Housing Bureau
handled the procedure of approving
housing this year and especially the
timing of its efforts to enforce
compliance with ts
nondiscriminatory regulations
during the academic year:

"The Student Council's concern
over the possibility of students
being forced to find new housing in
the middle of the academic year,
especially during first semester
examinations."

Pieter Schenkkan then
presented his motion dealing with
housing, which passed
unanimously. It reads: "The
Student Council strongly urges
President Shannon to immediately
change the composition of the
Housing Committee to include as
many student members as
non-student members. Student
members are to be chosen by the
President of the Student Council
and subject to the approval by a
two-thirds majority, of the Student
Council.

We urge that this reconstituted
Housing Committee take up, at its
first meeting, the general question
of whether or not the University
should claim the right to regulate
off-grounds housing, other than to
require that such housing be open
to any University student.

"If the Housing Committee
finds in the negative, we ask it to
join us in appealing to the Board of
Visitors that they repudiate this
claim."