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Paper S-126

To: Senate

From: Secretary, Faculty Council.

26 April, 1968.

Subject: Graduate Student Association.

Senate at its meeting of 1 April, 1968, referred back

to Faculty Council for further consideration its recommendation

that the Graduate Student Association be recognised as a separate

.organisation.

On 22 April Faculty Council invited I. Spencer, President

of the Graduate Student Association, and R. Walsh, Acting Chairman

of the Simon Fraser Student Society, to express their opinion as to

whether or not a Graduate Student Association should be formed at

Simon Fraser University. After hearing the views of the student

representatives, Faculty Council passed a resolution that the Registrar

prepare a referendum in consultation with I. Spencer and R. Walsh

asking whether the graduate students were in favour of

(a)

a graduate student association with complete autonomy, or

(b)

a graduate student association completely subsidiary to

the Simon Fraser Student Society, or

(c)

a graduate student association with limited autonomy as

an affiliated association of the Simon Fraser Student

Society.

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It was further decided that if none of these alternatives attained a

5O7 majority vote, there would be a run-off between the two finding most

favour. Faculty Council also expressed their desire to the student

representatives that each would present his views to the. graduate student

body before the referendum was conducted.

It was also agreed that Faculty Council would recomniend to

Senate that pending the result of the reEerendum it give de facto

recognition to the Graduate Student Association, without prejudice

to the final result but to serve the graduate student interests in the

meantime.

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D.A. Meyers\

Secretary, F'aculty Council

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