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L ' t i \ 5 S 5 G r A campus poll... fllh® gi®oirgiiair« y SIR GEORGE WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY JUN 1 3 tg g g VOL. XXXII, NO. 3 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1968 8 CENTS MONTREAL Council unable to select editor McGill opens Senate I Poll called for Daily duo MONTREAL (CUP)_. Wednesday as the McGill More chips fell of the rapid University Senate voted to ly crumbling wall of Cana open its meetings. dian university secrecy After a year and a half of bitter debate, the Senate voted to open its session Students reject "To observation by any member of the University "tokenistic” Community and the accre dited press subject to representation limitation of space good Ottawa (CUP) - Two uni conduct and special consi versity student councils Wed derations confidentiality.” nesday rejected “Tokenistic" Student President Robert attempts by administrations Hajaly was encouraged, to restructure university go saying: "It’s an important vernment. The University of Manitoba step towards thedemocrati- Students Union refused to send step towards the demo seven student senators to the cratization of university university’s 9o-man academic government. ’ ’ However, senate. Student Council had called At Toronto, student council for the opening of the Board declined to accept adminis of Governors and Senate tration president Claude Bis- Committees as well and has sell's offer of two seats on a not yet won that point. commission to examine uni "AH SHALL NOT RUN IN 68": McGill Daily Editor hopeful, George Radwanski, versity government. At Manitoba the Student U- In other moves to accept voices his disapproval of the "campus poll" at Wednesday night's Council session. nion set the following con controversial reform pro ditions to their acceptance poses with which it had In an unprecedented move, a Wednesday Following a series of exchanges among of the seven seats: grappled for months, the night meeting of the McGill Students' Council Council members, Radwanski and Starowicz 1) That council determine McGill Senate also: decided to call a campus-wide emergency were given the opportunity to voice their the method of election of stu Agreed to Student Council poll to settle the question of the editorship of opinions about the proposed poll. dent senators demands that plans for re the McGill Daily. The former qualified his earlier declara 2) That students be gua writing the student discipli The hassle over the new Daily Chief arose tion by stating that politics and journalism ranteed seats on the board ne code be scrapped in last spring when a majority of the 1967-68 were fundamentally incompatible and that the of governors favor of a code applicable Students' Council refused to ratify, as editor, poll was obviously a political solution. He 3) That senate and board Mark Starowicz, who had been previously said that he could not take part because “ the meetings be open to the pub to all sectors of the Univer selected by a committee established by the poll will, in all probability, tur n into a popu lic (two representatives of sity, to be drawn up by a same Council to choose the editor. The posi larity contest.'’ council walked out of the Se student - faculty - adminis - tion was then filled by an interim editor, “I am certainly not afraid of going before nate Wednesday when a mo tration committee. Peter Allnutt, but Council refused to allow the campus" he concluded, “but I feel that tion to open the meeting was Agreed to add three the publication of a Daily until a permanent as a journalist, the entire proceeding would tabled:) students to its key commit editor had been found. Lack of a Council be ethically inacceptable." But the Manitoba adminis tee on academic policy re quorum over the summer, made the selection Starowicz indicated that he too shared tration apparently does not versing a previous decision of a permanent editor impossible. Radwanski’s distaste for the emergency poll accept the union's right to Included junior profes The Wednesday night meeting, which took but that under the circumstances, there reject the seats. In a letter sors as members of all fa over three hours to decide on a course of seemed to be no other practical alternative. to student president Horace action re the Daily, multitude of amendments A humerous note was injected into the Patterson, administration culties of the university. (A and subamendments pertaining to the original meeting when Commerce Representative, president Dr. H. H. Saunder- faculty is a decision-making issue. Joel Rabay, introduced a five page motion son said he regretted mem body previously consisting recommending the establishment of a Board bers of Council would not only of senior staff.) Council President, Robert Hajoly initiated of Publications which would include among be running for senate election In the session, perhaps proceedings by introducing a motion that others, two professional journalists selected but added “we would hope its last behind closed doors, “ Students" Council name the Editor-in-chief by the Editors-in-chief of the Gazette and with the large number of ca the Senate also produced a of the McGill Daily at a meeting on Wednesday Montreal Star. pable students in the univer final version of proposals September 25, from among the candidates Hajoly's original motion was finally passed sity, it should be possible for overall changes in uni named above (Mark Starowicz and George with a majority vote leaving the names of to obtain able representatives versity government. These Radwanski); but only after consulting the Starowicz and Radwanski on the ballot. of the student viewpoint as membership of the Students' Society through The wording of the ballot, “Whereas Stu members of the Senate." In proposals go to the Board dents’ Council has been unwilling to decide Of Governors for approval an emergency poll between these candidates, other words, if council re to be held on a Students' Society-wide basis the appointment of an Editor-in-chief of jects the seats, he would ex on Monday. on Wednesday, Sept. 25; the McGill Daily this year without reference pect someone else to take Although the senate is “That Students’ Council agrees to abide to campus opinion, it has decided to put them. withholding its university by the result of the poll;” the following question to the members of Thursday Saunderson was legislation pending board Hajoly's motion went on to suggest that this the Students' Society: In your opinion, which to meet with student leaders approval, it is expected procedure not be considered a precedent in of the following persons should Students’ of the various faculties. There eight students will be added any way and that standing legislation re Council appoint as Editor-in-chief of the are fears that the meeting, to senate and the number garding the method of selection of the Daily's McGill Daily, George Radwanski or Mark closed to the public, will pro of elected faculty members Editor, not be modified. Starowicz?” was also approved by the Coun duce a mechanism bypassing Andre Mecs, the representative from the cil meeting. - council. (Now eight) will be almost Council seemed confused as to how they tripled. law faculty, responded to Hajoly’s motion The Toronto council came by pointing out that freshmen voting in the poll should act once the wishes of the students back with a counterproposal knew little about either candidate and conse are known. While Council as a whole is of a new commission made Elected faculty and stu quently would have no criterion on which to definitely obligated to abide by the results up of four elected faculty dents would then have a base a decision. He stated that it was of the poll, the responsibility of individual members and four elected numerical majority on the Council's responsibility to select an editor Council members is not clear. student members with ex-of senate over more than and proceeded to read a statement from In any event, the poll will take place next ficio administration repre twenty -five administrators Radwanski who said that he could not be a week and the will of the people shall be sentatives. and governors. candidate in such an election. known. 2/rti«8»orgion, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1968 CLASSIFIEDS RATES: Classified Advertising rates for the georgian registered students are c75 for one insertion and $1.25 for the same insertion in two conse cutive issues. 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