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...Faculty voted last Tuesday to postpone a vote on the Faculty Council. The Council and other recommendations of the Fainsod Committee will be up for consideration at a meeting on November...
...Faculty Council. according to the Fainsod report, would replace the present Committee on Educational Policy and act "as a combined dean's cabinet and steering committee of the Faculty." The report suggested that the dean of the Faculty nominate candidates for all Council seats, with the possibility of further nominations by the Faculty itself through petitions signed by at least ten Faculty members...
...Fainsod report has been a topic of much discussion in both Faculty caucuses since it was made public on October 17. The caucuses held a joint meeting about the report on October 20, and discussion within the conservative caucus about circulating a letter began shortly thereafter...
Gleason and James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, are the two members of the steering committee who were not present at the meeting. Gleason served on the Fainsod Committee and therefore was not asked to sign the letter. Wilson went to Michigan on October 23; he said yesterday that Wolff tried to reach him after his departure for the airport...
...Fainsod Committee's recommendations, the letter said. "already provide a large element of election in the process of choosing the Council. We think any future dean will need the tiny minimum of opportunity allowed him by the Fainsod report to select members of the Faculty Council in whom he himself has confidence...