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...want total deregulation or none at all. But eventually administration supporters garnered enough votes to invoke cloture and kill the kind of stalling tactics which Metzenbaum and Abourezk used to defeat deregulation a year ago. Pro-deregulation showed their muscle last week when they killed an attempt to recommit the bill to the House-Senate conference...
...spring of 1973, the last time the Faculty council recommended calendar changes that would place exams before Christmas vacation, the Faculty voted to recommit the motion to the council...
Rosovsky says he returned from sabbatical during last spring to find the Faculty at its May meeting last year voting to recommit a motion for a calendar revision to the Faculty Council. Faculty members wanted further study because numerous unanswerable questions came up on the floor debate. Rosovsky says that watching that meeting persuaded him that the Council must study legislation in more detail, with more extensive staff support, before passing it on to the full Faculty...
...Faculty usually follows the council's recommendations, but this time it did not. During the debate on the calendar change, several important drawbacks to the new calendar came up--its effect on fall term studying time, for instance--and the Faculty voted to recommit the issue to the council for further study...
Last spring the Faculty Council recommended that the Faculty vote in a new calendar with a first semester that would end before Christmas break--and the Faculty voted to recommit the matter to the council effectively killing the change for at least one year. It was one of the few times last year that the Faculty did not follow a Faculty Council recommendation...