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Reply Never Sent

Mr. Ogle had admitted Wednesday
that he had never replied to the invitation
because he was under the assumption that since
President Shannon had regularly invited the
Student Council's President and Vice President
to the Board meetings, that they were always
expected.

Mr. Ogle added that in the minutes of a
Student Council meeting sent to the Board, a
motion dealing with letters to the Board had
indicated the desire of the Council President
and Vice President to attend the meeting.

The Student Council meeting was called
yesterday to discuss what the response of the
Council should be to the exclusion of its
President and Vice President from the Board
meeting.

The first motion called for Council approval
of a letter from Mr. Ogle to the Board of
Visitors. In that letter, Mr. Ogle reviewed the
'misunderstanding' and confusion causing the
exclusion of Student Council delegates.

He also expressed his disappointment over
the situation and over the lack of efforts to
improve student-Board communication.

The conclusion of the letter read in part,
that "A terrible grievance against the Student
Council and student body because of personalities
and misunderstandings can prevent the
student body's elected representatives from
addressing the University's governing board on
matters of major import. Despite the Council's
best and sustained intentions to improve
communication we are not even allowed the
opportunity to convey our constituents' concerns
in open discussion."

Ron A. Hickman

The letter ended with an invitation to the
Board to meet with the Council at a special
meeting.

The motion to approve the letter was
unanimously passed by Council.

A motion was then made by Ron Cass of the
College calling for Council to ask the other
students invited by Mr. Rogers and Mr.
Hereford to the Board meeting not to attend
the meeting unless delegates were invited from
the Student Council. The motion also called for
the other students invited to the meeting to
publicly give their reasons why they would not
attend that meeting.