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To: Senate members

From: Registrar

1 August, 1967

Responding to the concern expressed in the July meeting

of Senate, Faculty Council has requested that the attached paper

be placed before Senate for information.

D.P. Robertson

Secretary,

Faculty Council.

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Paper S-34

To: Senate - for information.

From:Faculty Council

1 August, 1967.

Subject: Procedures followed in the

Templeton School Incident.

The following is a summary of Faculty Council's procedures

involving five graduate students as a result of the Templeton School

incident.

The Council met on Wednesday, March 15, 1967, at 8.30 a.m.

at the request of the Chairman. The Chairman explained that he thought

Faculty Council should discuss the events at Templeton School on

March 10, 13 and 14, in which a number of Simon Fraser University students

were involved.

Faculty Council discussed the events. as it knew them and then

interviewed one undergraduate and four of the five graduate students

whose names appeared on a letter to the Templeton School students.

Faculty Council, through the Chairman, informed the students that the

purpose '

of the interviews was to assist in establishing the facts

regarding the Templeton School incident which had been drawn to its

attention.

The Council agreed that no action should be taken regarding

the undergraduate.

It was agreed that the five graduate students should be

interviewed by the Chairman and their Departmental Heads and that if the

Chairman was satisfied with the results of the interviews, no further

action was required.

On Thursday, May 11, 1967, the Faculty Council met and

discussed a report from the Chairman on his interviews with the five

graduate students. Faculty Council took note of the Chairman's

report and decided to take no further action.

On July 6 Faculty Council met and received a memorandum from

T.B. Bottomore to the Dean of Arts regarding: "Faculty Council Discussion

on Four Graduate Students in the PSA Department". The Council also

heard T.B. Bottomore explain his memorandum in person.

Faculty Council decided to note T.B. Bottomore's memorandum in

the records and re-affirmed its previous decision to take no action

regarding the five graduate students.

P .D.McTaggart- Cowan

Chairman

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