SFAC Meets To Consider Vote Change

The Student Faculty Advisory Committe will consider a change in its membership at its first meeting of the academic year today.

The committee, set up last year in the wake of the Dow demonstration, will meet at 3 p.m. in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. The student members of the SFAC were elected by their various constituencies, while the Faculty representatives were appointed by Dean Ford.

Some students on the committee feel that new elections should not be held until January, after the freshmen class has had a chance to orient to itself and after sophomores have been integrated into their house. However, one student member of the SFAC, Lawrence S.DiCara '71, has circulated a statement calling for elections to the body right away and the full committee will have to decide the matter at its session this afternoon.

Faculty members have the option to retire. Any vacancies would normally be filled by Dean Ford but some students have suggested that such vacancies should be filled by a vote of the full Faculty. There will probably be some discussion of this proposal at today's meeting.

As for the substantive issues that SFAC might discuss this year, there are two being aired by members. At a caucus of student members of the SFAC held last week it was suggested that the committee take up the problem of University relations with the Cambridge community. A Harvard Committee headed by James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, is expected to report soon on this matter and some students on SFAC think that the body should review the recommendations of the Wilson Committee.

The other proposal is that SFAC deal with the question of Honorary Degrees awarded by Harvard. Last summer's award to the Shah of Iran has come in for some criticism and some members of the SFAC feel that the mechanics of this particular decision-making process ought to be examined with a view to making future awards more representative of University feelings as a whole.