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...Faculty overwhelmingly voted down SFAC's plan to limit campus recruitment yesterday. But by a narrow margin it adopted a second SFAC recommendation that a recruiting organization "be required to discuss its policies at a public meeting" if 500 students petitioned requesting such a discussion...
With the entire section describing sanctions knocked out of SFAC's resolutions, several Faculty members thought it was unclear whether the remainder could be enforced. One said last night that the University could do no more than request corporations to debate. But SFAC members including Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, said that SFAC intended the clause to bar any company which refused...
CLAUSE TWO: The majority supporting this clause--presumably larger than that supporting the resolution as a whole--considered that the OGCP offers not only a service to students but a substantial convenience to the interviewing organizations. To the majority of the SFAC, such activities as the interviewing of students with a view to prospective employment or the providing of information by a company as part of its business policy, seemed ancillary to the University's central purpose. The convenience offered to organizations interviewing at the OGCP was held to be rather a privilege than a right. It seemed...
Some arbitrariness was of course unavoidable in setting the minimum number of petitioners at twenty per cent of the undergraduate body, but the majority of the Council felt that this figure would be high enough to exclude all but the most earnest petitions. The SFAC would in any case be empowered to reject a petition if it were contested by an opposing group of students or for other; substantive reasons...
...only after the organization has been given an opportunity to defend its policies, and the petition must then receive about 1200 signatures of undergraduates who feel that stronger action needs to be taken. It must further be approved by a majority of those voting at a meeting of the SFAC, after an open hearing in which the merits of the petition have been explored and opposition to it has been weighed...