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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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MEMORANDUM
SENATE
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SENATE AGENDA COMMITTEE
From
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REQUEST TO UNDERTAKE PHOTOGRAPHY!
Subject .........
TAPING ... DURING ... SENATE ... D,IS.CU.SS.ION ON
COMMUNICATION STUDIES PROPOSAL
Date
......TOBER .24., .....72.......................................................
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A request has been received for permission to undertake
photography/taping during the Senate discussion on the Communication
Studies proposal. See the attached.
The Agenda Committee believes this request should be
dealt with by the Senate - without comment by the Committee as to
its merits or demerits.
Senate has ruled that there may be a short period before
Senate meetings begin when photography and recording may be permitted,
but that this would not be allowed while Senate is in session.
The Agenda Committee proposes that the following motion be
placed before Senate at its meeting of November 6, 1972 as soon as
it convenes for Open Session, to permit decisibn by Senate:
MOTION: "That Senate suspend its rule that interferes
with photography/taping for the Open Session
of November 6, 1972 to permit of photography/
taping as requested during debate on the
Communication Studies proposal."
Note: A motion to suspend the rules is non-debatable and requires
a two-thirds vote to pass.
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Dr. K. Strand
Presidents Office
Simon Fraser University
October 24th, 1972
Dear Dr. Strand:
I am writing to ask you whether a group of students, all of us
interested in communications and the proposed new Communications
Department, could videotape Senate discussion of the Communications
proposal.
There are two basic reasons we wish to tape this session of Senate:
a)
to tape such a meeting intelligently is an enormous challenge for
students interested in communications,
b)
it seems only fitting that the inception of a Communications Department
should be recorded in a typical communications medium. It will be of
value for those students who cannot attend and for posterity.
We realize that there are good reasons why Senate would not want to
have all its proceedings videotaped. However, we submit that the present
occasion is sufficiently exceptional to merit exceptional treatment.
The taping arrangements would be identical to those which Senate
experienced before the meetings were opened to the University community,
i.e.
two stationary, opposed cameras. There would be no editing of the
tapes other than splicing; between the two camera tapes, or at Senate
direction. The tapes would, of course, be the property of the University,
which would have complete control over how they are used: we do not envisage
them being used other than at the University.
We hope that you are in agreement to this request. Thank you for
considering this matter.
Yours sincerely,
Ms. Janet Lemmon
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Communications Department
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