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Policy Misinterpreted

Apparently, the misunderstanding concerning
the Board's invitation to Messrs. Ogle and
Hurdle arose due to a misinterpretation on the
part of Mr. Ogle of the policy concerning the
invitation of Council officers to the Visitor's
meetings.

Mr. Ogle said yesterday it was his understanding
that the Council officers had a
standing invitation to the meetings of the
Board's Student Affairs Committee and that it
was naturally assumed that the officers would
attend those meetings unless they specifically
declined the invitation.

The Council President said that he reached
this assumption since the Board, upon the
recommendation of President Edgar Shannon,
had changed the policy concerning student
invitations to the meetings.

Mr. Ogle said that, under the former policy,
President Shannon regularly invited Council's
President and Vice-President "if they showed
interest. I assumed that we are always invited
and the invitation accepted unless we reject it."

Mr. Hereford said yesterday that in his
invitation to the officers, he asked that they
give a response, either positive or negative, to
Norma Lane, President Shannon's confidential
secretary. This he said was the policy for all
invitations and that he himself had to make
such a reply to the secretary when he was
invited to the meetings by President Shannon.

Mr. Hereford said that he was asked by the
Rector of the Board, Mr. Rogers, if the officers
had replied and that he had not received a
positive answer from either officer. Mr. Rogers
then told him to invite the Chairmen of the
Honor and Judiciary Committees instead.