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The first Senate_meeting‘ ~of 197k brought few surp- \

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the form_of any dynamic resolutions for the new year. The main ingredients of the get together were housekeeping in nature as the Academic Planning Comm- ittee of Senate brought in .proposals to update and tie dy up the UPEI course cal- endar.‘ .

At the start of the meet, ing, Chairman Baker announ- ced the names of faculty members who will be on the Senate committee investig- ating the'ins' and 'outs' of pre—registration. The students will have at least one and possibly two rep- resentatives on this comm- ittee, howeVer, as of now, the student positions are vacant. The names of the a faculty members on this co- mmittee are R. Black, Educ- ation; M. Hennesey; Admin- istration; E.L. Wannacot, Physics; K. Cassidy, Hist- cry.

The next issue brought be- fore Senate was the report of the Academic Planning Committee. Delivering the report was Professor R. Mahen of the Education ’ Faculty.

The Opening point of deba- te was the was the consid- eration of motion that the present statistics courses on campus be retained in their present nature with safeguards against double- crediting. The problem here stems from the fact that although a student has a statistics course to his/ her credit it may not be rthe one required for a ma- ' jor. For example, if I have Math 221 (statistics) and decide I want a soc- iology major I still must take the sociological sta— tistics course and lose

credit for Math 221 since ' there Shall be, according to the motion, no double- crediting. Only one stat- istics course can be all- owed for obtaining/a degree. I will IOSe all credit for all other-statistics cours— es except the one pertain- ing to my major. ’

Some Senators, including

Smitheram and MacDonald, voiced concern as to the logical footings of the motion. Their argument consisted in the fact of recognition of a1L~four

statistic courses by Senate, yet this same Senate allows only one, in effect, to be

;creditable. The motion, in

essence, is contradictory.

M. Hennesey, registrar, defended the motion by not- ing that only a handful of students are affected by this motion and that no co- mpromise seemed evident at this time. "Mostguniversi- ties”, he claimed, "mainta- in at least four separate statistic courses on their calendars". Motion was carried!

(a point of clarification- since the motion really means a continuance of the present policy the Dean of the faculty will decide on the legality on double-cre- diting in individual cases.)

At this point the ACademic Planning Committee announ- oed plans of the Business Administration section of the Arts Faculty's expan— sion of its "Human resou- rces-special topics" field of instruction. Professor Ellison spearheaded the drive to convince Senate of the necessity of the expansion which means the addition of two new courses in the human relations, hu- man resources, section of Business studies and the

_ability-of the staff of

the Business Administra-’ tion department to handle such a movement into neo- psychological studies, (as it were).

Pr. Jim Kelly, classics department, wondered if this type of so-called expansion could be, in fact, inflationll He asked if these new areas of study were not.covered by various other social sciences which could cover this field of Business studies by an ele- ctive incorporation rather than by creating two new courses. r 'Professor Ellison felt that, at present, no oth- er departments effectively cover this area of human

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relations - human resources, at least the aspects that businessmen would be inter- ested in. This argument se- emed to satisfy Senate as they adopted the original motion, with only Senator Kelly opposing.

At this point Fr. Kelly reccommended the student input at the Senate level on the various aspects of

the debate concerning the proposals of the Academic Planning Committee. He no- ticed that the Senators re- presenting the students had contributed a great de-* al to his decisions on the ' various motions at this meeting - for this he than- ked the student senators in attendances who were, by the way, Dianne MacDonald, Stan Dalton, Barbara Stev- enson and Irene McCardle.

Another important issue that came before Senate was the consideration of motion concerning the committee' , which is attempting a study of the philosoPhy and price rities of the education being administered at UPEI.

The motion before Senate asked that inputs into the committee from students, local politicians, clergy and professionals be gath- ered as soon as possible so as to facilitate an or- ganized report on this matter of priorities and philosophy of education on this campus.

Fr. MacIntyre, English department, commended the people responsible for giving this motion a chance in Senate. He argued that a study of this type is in dire need so that people' in Eastern Canada will be able to better understand UPEI and its 'raison d'etre:

Senator Smitheram asked the committee to seek other studies done by various universities and governmen- ts in North America, in order that some sort of measuring apparatus-for standards, etc. could be gained. x

As far as I was concerned much of the debate and iss- ues before Senate were nee-

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