VES Student Committee Plans Opinion Poll of Concentrators

A committee of Visual and Environmental Studies concentrators will distribute a questionnaire to students in the department next week asking them to comment on their experiences in the department and to make suggestions for its future.

"We want to provide an input into the department and let them know students' interests and concerns," Mary E.B. Meagher '76, a spokesperson for the group, said yesterday. "We also want to provide better communication with the department," she said.

The ad-hoc group of approximately 12 students will send a report of its findings to Robert G. Gardner '48, acting chairman of the department, and to the eight members of the department's executive committee, Meagher said.

The executive committee is preparing a report dealing with all aspects of the department's future which they will submit to Dean Rosovsky later this year.

Eric Martin '58, lecturer on Visual Studies and head tutor of the department, said yesterday that the executive committee's recommendations will directly affect the department's choice of courses, hiring policies, and budget.

"Students are upset because they haven't really been brought into the process," he said.

Suggestions

Julia T. Rowe '77, a member of the committee, said yesterday "We want to find out whether the department will welcome efforts on our part to make suggestions to the executive committee."

The group began meeting after the department announced it would not rehire Martin, Len Gittleman, lecturer on Photography, and Lois S. Charney, lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Alexander V. Griswold V '76, a member of the group said yesterday.

Meagher said the group may distribute a second questionnaire to all students enrolled in Visual and Environmental Studies courses.