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Report of Fainsod Group Suggests Faculty Council

Fifty-four of the 657 present members of the Faculty do not hold academic appointments. The report did "not recommend any retroactive action which would deprive [them] of Faculty membership."

The Fainsod Committee endorsed the Committee of Fifteen's working paper on discipline and recommended its adoption by the Faculty. It also recommended the continuation of the present Faculty policy allowing student media to cover Faculty meetings and permitting the dean of the Faculty to invite student representatives "to participate in discussions of matters on which their views are deemed relevant."

A final recommendation of the report was that the Faculty Council establish "a subcommittee on Plans and Resources, composed of five of its members, with the explicit mandate of addressing itself to problems. choices, and priorities in Faculty development."

Fainsod Was Draftsman

Fainsod himself wrote the first draft of the report and mailed it over the summer to members of his Committee, who sent suggestions back to him. Fainsod wrote a second draft before the Committee's first meeting this school year and revised the report since then.

Besides Fainsod and Thomson, other members of the committee were Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry: Giles Constable '50, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History; Andrew M. Gleason, professor of Mathematics; Harry T. Lavin, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature: Don K. Price, professor of Government: Howard C. Berg, assistant professor of Biology; and Kenneth M. Deitch '60, assistant professor of Economics.

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Five students served as consultants to the committee. They were Kenneth M. Glazier '69, ex-chairman of SFAC; Stephen H. Kaplan '69, ex-president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council: Kenneth M. Kanfman. ex-chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee: Ellen Messer '69, ex-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students: and Paul G. Munyon, teaching fellow in Economics, president of the GSA.

Each committee member probably will present a part of the report at the October 28 meeting, and each major section will be considered separately. The Faculty must approve the parts of the report dealing only with Arts and Sciences, while Corporation approval is necessary for the other sections.

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