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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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cars on campus, which is considered to be a separate problem. Only an approximate 20 per cent of the students haye registered motor vehicles on campus. The primary concern has been to provide adequate services for the total student body, including the 80 per cent who do not have motor vehicles on campus. As the essential needs of the faculty-staff are met for serving the total student body, w e will turn to the subsidiary problem of providing parking facilities to the extent possible for the 20 per cent of the student body who have motor vehicles on campus. Although the Committees believe that all the major policy decisions are included in its recommendations, they recognize that a number of administrative details remain to be determined before the program may be put into operation. Recommendations for the resolution of these questions may appropriately be made by the Committee on Motor Vehicle Regulations, as has been recommended, and the Campus Planning Committee will not be involved in their consideration. On motion of M r . Johnston, the foregoing recommendations were approved, and authority was given as requested.

AMENDMENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS STATUTES

(26) The University Senates have proposed amendments of Sections 38, Tenure of Academic Staff, and 39, Academic Freedom, of the University of Illinois Statutes and, collaterally, of Section 6, University Senates, which would necessarily be affected by any changes made in Sections 38 and 39. The UrbanaChampaign Senate approved the proposed amendments on June 13, 1961; the Chicago Undergraduate Division Senate on December 5, 1961, approved but with some modifications the amendments proposed by the Urbana-Champaign Senate; and the Medical Center Senate on April 4, 1962, approved, with minor changes, the amendments as modified and approved by the Chicago Undergraduate Division Senate. The University of Illinois Statutes provide: Section 6 (k), in part, that "each Senate may propose amendments to these Statutes through the Senate Coordinating Council to the President and the Board of Trustees as provided in Section 65." Section 65 provides, in part, that ". . . Any proposed amendment shall be referred to the Senate Coordinating Council for its consideration and for transmission to the other Senates for action. If the three Senates agree, the amendment shall be presented to the President for transmission to the Board of Trustees. / / the Senates do not concur in the proposed amendment, the Coordinating Council shall endeavor to promote agreement of the three Senates; -where agreement is not effected, the Council shall transmit its recommendations to the President for submission to the Board of Trustees. Any Senate objecting to a proposed amendment may record its objections by forwarding them to the Board of Trustees, through the President. . . ." (italics supplied) Accordingly, and pursuant to the authority vested in it by Section 65, the Senate Coordinating Council endeavored to promote agreement of the three Senates on the proposed amendments which was not successful; and pursuant to the further authority vested in it by Section 65, the Senate Coordinating Council transmitted to the President of the University, for submission to the Board of Trustees, its recommendations for amendments to Sections 6, 38, and 39 of the University Statutes. On April 2, 1963, I transmitted to all members of all three Senates the complete report of the Senate Coordinating Council presenting its recommendations for amendments to the Statutes, stating that to provide an opportunity for any of the Senates to register an objection to the recommendations (as provided for in Section 65, quoted above), I would defer presentation of the subject to the Board of Trustees until after the June meetings of the Senates. The Senates have offered no objections. On the contrary, the Urbana-Champaign Senate at a meeting on April 15, 1963, unanimously adopted a resolution: ". . . that the Champaign-Urbana Senate approves and endorses the recommendation of the Senate Coordinating Council for revision of Sections 6, 38, and 39 of the University Statutes and urges their adoption by the Board of Trustees.