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OPPENDIX "A"

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PROPOSAL PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT STRAND FOR

SENATE ACTION

Senate is closed to students in three ways: first, we are allowed

only three student representatives out of thirty-seven members which

makes our influence on decisions affecting our lives illusory; second,

the right to be physically present and to express our feelings during

debates has been taken from us; third, the first meeting of Senate to

debate serious long-range proposals on Admissions, academic planning

and Conway's proposals for an open university is to be held without

opportunity for prior debate or even information by either students or

faculty outside Senate (despite President Strand's public statement

to Senate that his blueprint would be 'widely available' to students

and faculty) or at a time when either students or faculty have time

away from exams and essays to make their opinions known.

At the same time, Rob Walsh and Milten Maclaren, without even con-

sulting either the student body or faculty or their own executives, are

having a press conference announcing that a referendum will be held with-

in the next seventy-two hours on new discipline procedures designed to

facilitate expulsion of students or faculty who in the opinion of four

'judges' (and ultimately the president who can make any decision he

wants regardless even of the 'court's' decision) demonstrate 'disruptively'.

At the mall meeting today there appeared to be general agreement

that the Administration had purposely "created" the issue around physical

openess to

cloud

the real issues (the ramming of the academic planning

and admissions proposals through Senate during exams) and to try to pro-

voke students into defending their basic rights - which would then provide

the rationale for introducing repressive disciplinary measures. We do

not intend to be intimidated into surrendering to an arbitrary authority

which seeks to prevent any real, effective influence exercised by students

over university decisions. On the other hand, we wish to call the Senate's

bluff. If they are serious about reaching decisions in the open and res-

pecting the opinions and decisions of the student body and faculty, they

will consider the following two proposals as the first items on the Senate

agenda. The effect of those proposals is to allow tonight's meeting to

continue at a time when students and faculty are least able to indicate

their feelings about openess and the substance of the Strand, Ellis and

Conway proposals. However, we demand that no decision be made on the

three proposals until the three conditions of openess can be reasonably

met.

1.

that final votes on the Academic Planning, Admissions and "open univ-

ersity" motions be made at an open Senate meeting at the beginning of the

next semester, thus allowing the student body and faculty to examine the

documents, formulate their opinions and attend the meeting without the

pressure of exams and essays.

2.

that Senate indicate its willingness to be bound by a referendum vote on

•

the question of a parity Senate (half students and half faculty, elected

according to their own procedures) conducted among students and faculty

either singly or jointly; that if such a referendum passed, that Senate

would agree to ratify decisions made by an interim parallel Senate set up

as an elected parity body before the University act is formally changed.