April 16, 1969. 

D. C. 

Chairman, 

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Senate Committee on Deans and Heads, 

Simon Fraser University. 

Dear Professor Tuck: 

Thank you for the final report of the Committee, dated 9th April 

1969. This dissenting report is concerned with Section IV, and centers on 

the Review Committee described on pp. 4-5. Insofar as this Review Committee 

is supposed to judge the fitness of a Department to choose a Chairman 

the Department has even tried to choosea Chairman, this proposed Review 

Committee violates the provisions of the Interim Council Report II-4-6b and 

II-4-6c, where the reviewing Dean's Committee asks the Department to choose 

a candidate from outside the Department if the choice from within the 

Department is unacceptable. The Interim Council Report makes good sense: 

there is no point in raising all kinds of accusations 

counter-accusations 

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as

a Chairman. 

a (god forbid!) 

Even a 

normal 

suspect 

procedure 

Department 

prior 

may

to

come 

a Department's 

up

a perfectly 

efforts to 

acceptable 

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Chairman either from within or outside the Department. If the Department's 

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candidate is unacceptable, then the trouble obviously begins. But 

dissenting report asks: 

create a lot of trouble before you have to? 

And 'I predict that there will be a lot of unnecessary trouble if Senate accepts 

this notion of a Review Committee granting or withholding its "Certificate of 

Good Housekeeping" on the basis of goodness knows what rumour and hearsay 

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evidence. 

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Yours sincerely, 

Ralph Maud, 

Professor df English, 

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member of the Senate Committee. 

/pa

c.c. Dr. K. Strand 

Mr. N. Collins ? 

Dr. A. 1 

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Mr. W. Hamilton 

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Evans 

Dr. L. Boland 

Professor C. Sperling 

Professor J. Hutchinson 

Dean D. Sullivan 

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