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April 16, 1969. 

D. C. 

Tuck, 

Chairman, 

Senate Committee on Deans and Heads, 

Simon 

Traser 

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 before 

the Department has even tried to choose a Chairman, this proposed Review 

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

II4-6c, 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 and counter-accusations 

as a (god forbid!) normal procedure prior to a Department's efforts to selec' 

a Chairman. Even a suspect Department may come up with a perfectly acceptable 

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

candidate is unacceptable, then the trouble obviously begins. But this 

dissenting report asks': Why 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 

evidence. 

Yours sincerely, 

Ralph Maud, 

,Professor df English, 

member of the Senate Committee. 

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Dr. K. 

Strand 

Nr. N. 

Collins 

Dr.

A.

McKinnon 

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W.

Hamilton 

Mr. ? 

II.

Evans 

Dr. L. 

Boland 

Professor C. Sperling 

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Professor J. Hutchinson 

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Dean D. 

Sullivan 