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...Dean Bender yesterday told Student Council officers that the "gentleman's agreement" between his office and the Council is still in force, despite the fact that the Council was not consulted about Tuesday's Faculty resolution on joint instruction...
Edward F. Burke '50, Council President, and Roy M. Goodman '51, treasurer, reported last night that Bender considered Council action unnecessary because the Faculty only proposed extending to freshmen courses the joint instruction voted for several years...
...Bender also said yesterday that the present agreement concerns only the Dean's Office and that if the Council wants to have similar relations with the Faculty's Educational Policies Committee, it must take up the matter with that group...
...Dean Bender, in reaffirming the agreement, misconstrued his function under this arrangement, and the Council was equally misguided. The Dean says that he did not consider the extension of join instructing to freshman courses an important change in policy. But the function of the Dean's Office in these matters should not be judicial. Dean Bender should pass along to the Council any decision on educational policy without deciding on its weight, leaving it for the Council to pass on whether the matter is worth its consideration...
...Dean Bender said last night that he would prefer not to comment on the issue. He has a regular meeting with the Council officers today...