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Show •116- not? "All of these," he said, indicating the long list on the board, "represent just grievances. At the moment, however, we want to be specific and to the point. We are deeply offended. What do we want the board to do about it? What are we prepared to do if they don't do anything?" He went on to propose that the Chairman appoint a committee to drax-r up such a resolution. "We are too unwieldy a group. For myself, I xrould prefer to leave the actual wording to a committee of six or eight persons? who could meet tonight and formulate a document to be presented to the general faculty tomorrow." Listening to this older colleague restore some order and purpose to the meeting, the Professor momentarily forgot his aching stomach. He quickly made a motion that the Chairman be empoxfered to appoint such a committee, composed of six members, who would prepare the resolution for submission to tomorrow's meeting. It was immediately seconded and? after some discus-yrv sion of the ake-up and number of the committee, approved with few dissenting votes? The dissenters were all from the younger faculty, one of who asked: "How do we know the senate will agree to call a meeting?" The Chairman had just begun to explain that the senate rules obliged them to call a meeting xrtien any single department requested it? vihen the rea/ door opened and the txro senators entered the room. The senate, they said, had issued the call |
