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July 24, 1967

TO: Members of Senate

FROM:

Sharon Yandlo, Senate Student Representative

The inclusion of student representatives on Senate In June of this

year poses: a problem regarding the closed nature of Senate meetings.

Student

senate

members, like their faculty counterparts, have been

elected to represent a certain constituency. Unlike their faculty counterparts,

however, student senators do not represent constituents numbering in the dozens;

our constituents in September will number 5000 to 6000 or possibly more. Because

of this obvious disproportionate reprosontdtiOfl, student senators cannot discuss

Senate proceedings or issues as can faculty in, for example, departmental or

faculty meetings. Our only recourse to informing students of Senate activities,

therefore, is through the student newspaper, The Peak, or though a student Senate

newsletter.

This problem has been further compounded by a unanimous vote by the

Student Society Execut1ve Council "that student senators be requested to report to..

Council after each Senate ming". (Minutes, Student Society Executive Council,

June 26, 1967). Since Student Council meetings are open to both press and public,

such reports will immediately

be

reproduced in the Peak. The first such report

has in fact been made, a Peak excerpt of which is enclosed.

Because reports by any given Individuals are almost inevitably to cause

some unintended distortion of Senate proceedings, it would appear to be in the

Interests of all concerned that Senate meetings be declared open as soon as possible.

(Open Senate meetings, of course, would not restrict Senate from moving in camera

If the nature of particular

proceedings

should Justify such a move.)

No doubt It will be recognized that those problems were not extant

during the discussion of this issue by Senate last semester. In view of the

changes since

that

time, therefore, and in the hope of some free discussion of

this question and the possibility arising therein of some viable alternative, we

urge the acceptance of the following motion:

THAT SINCE THE INCLUSION OF STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES ON SENATE APPEARS TO CREATE A

PROBLEM HITHERTO NON-EXISTENT, THE QUESTION OF THE CLOSED NATURE OF SATE MEETINGS

BE RECONSIDERED.

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In arepurttoStudcrts'Coun.

cii Senator Simon Foulds stated

that ". . there were objections

(n Serat) t(!'whether the

Kineslolody currIculum was less

strenuous than the requirements

ofanoiLSc. and whether the

value o the

DSc. would be iOWa

ered.

He reported that two mom.

hers of the Faculty of Science

had objected to the Kineslolcgy

program as on ". . . insult to

the university. It wouli not rev

• present the kind 'f degree nor.

• mally acquired by Science stua

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dents.

"It was argued that the

course requirements In :inesi

ology did not Include a 2iician

number of upper level coarsen

• to constItute anything lIke

the

rigorous requirements for a

normal BSc. degree In one o

the natural scIcaces" said

Foulds.

"QesIonz were asked as

to whethe: ane could

CLdy

the

economics, I. orical. and

sev

ciological z.zjcct ohuman move-

ment L. any cangtul

manner."

The program was passed

with Sharon Yanc.e ab5tainlng

and Simon Foulds opj'.csed.

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