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...Faculty on May 15 rejected the calendar proposal, in spite of its overwhelming student support and unanimous endorsement by the Faculty Council. After numerous Faculty members cited their objections to a schedule change, the Faculty voted, 79-63, to recommit the "early semester" plan to the Faculty Council for further consideration, and thus made calendar revision by Fall 1974 unlikely. Marion C. Belliveau, Faculty Registrar, has said that the schedule could be changed by that date only if the Faculty approved a new calendar by its first meeting next October...
After Faculty members had spent an hour discussing the proposal, Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, approached Robert J. Kiely, associate dean of Undergraduate Education and the author of the calendar-revision motion, and told him that he planned to move to recommit the plan to the Council. Although Kiely insisted that he wanted a vote on the plan at the meeting, Beer decided to forward the motion, explaining to the Faculty, "I don't think the Faculty Council looked closely enough at this." Beer is a member of the Council...
Assignment to a Radcliffe House wasn't the only news development this week that drew freshman fire. Many members of the Class of '76 weren't too happy Tuesday when the Faculty voted to recommit the proposed "early semester" plan to the Faculty Council, apparently delaying any calendar revision until Fall...
...vote on the recommit motion of Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, followed an hour of debate during which numerous Faculty members cited their objections to the proposed schedule...
...supporters, however. Besides Nixon's statement, the White House released endorsements of the nominee by eleven of his fellow judges-a measure of questionable value, considering that another seven of Carswell's colleagues refused to back him. In an attempt to head off the vote to recommit the nomination to the Judiciary Committee, an action that would ordinarily mean the death of the Carswell nomination, a majority of the committee signed a letter saying that "no useful purpose" would be served by recommittal-and implying that they would simply bounce the nomination back to the full Senate...