CEP Approves Radical Course; Debates Dunlop Recommendations

Soc Rel 149, to be given this spring as a sequel to Soc Rel 148, won unanimous approval from the Committee on Educational Policy yesterday.

Dean Ford said last night that both the CEP and the Soc Rel Department want to review the experiment in radical courses at the end of this academic year, commenting that they had "no basis from Soc Rel 148 for saying that the experiment should not continue this spring."

The CEP took no action on the course's so-called "activism clause," which raises the possibility that some sections will be involved in community organizations as field work.

When the Soc Rel Department recommended the course to the CEP last week, the Department said the course's organizers would have to clear up the confusion by presenting their plans to the department's Executive Committee. The CEP seconded that decision.

In other action yesterday, the CEP held an informal discussion of some sections of the report of the Committee for the Recruitment and Retention of Faculty (Dunlop Committee). The CEP took no action on the sections, because most of them will be moved on the floor of the Faculty meeting January 14 by John Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy.

"They're really in the area of academic personnel policy, not educational policy," Ford explained. The sections which Dunlop will move include provisions on fringe benefits and retirement rules for Faculty members.

Though the Faculty can pass a resolution expressing its sentiment on such matters, the final decision is up to the Corporation, Ford said.

Other sections of the Dunlop Committee report--primarily those concerning housing for Faculty members and schooling for Faculty children--will not be discussed by the Faculty until after the Wilson Committee, which is studying these matters, reports in January, he said.