Taking Care

The administration is taking its time--and great pains--in issuing its long-awaited prounciamiento on the Student Security Patrol, Tuesday, the two-member faculty panel probing the student nightwatch group over the last three weeks submitted its final, half-inch-thick report to Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration.

Hall, who refused to make the panel's findings public, promised to have ready by Wednesday or Thursday a conclusive "statement that we'll have to stand by" on charges of financial abuses and mismanagement against the patrol's leadership.

Hall had a statement prepared on time, he said yesterday, but then some other Mass Hall notables got in on the act. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, took a day or two to redraft Hall's statement, and then Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, decided to look it over, according to Hall.

The new target date for a pronouncement from on high is next Tuesday--11 weeks to a day from the date three students on the patrol sat down and hammered out their letter--one that blew the whistle on the patrol's management.