SLC clashes on Trustees report

Last night’s Student Life Council meeting resulted in a direct confrontation between students and the faculty-administration members o f the council over the issue of the Board of Trustees’ response to the SLC report on Hall Life. The split began with a motion by Student Body President Dave Krashna to reject the Trustees report, and by the meeting’s close had come close to being reduced to a charge by the student represen­ tatives that the Council could not work in the best interests o f the students since two-thirds o f the members were people who had no contact with student life. Krashna’s motion came imme­ diately after Chairman James Massey had opened the floor to discussion of Board of Trustees’ Chairman Stepan’s letter to the SLC outlining the Trustees res­ ponse to the issues of drinking on campus, hall staffs and in particular parietal hours. Krash­ na moved that the council reject the alteration of the structure o f the Hall Life Board and the determ ination of parietal hours limitations. The m otion was followed by a series o f questions directed to Mr. Philip Faccenda, Special Assistant to the President, who had been present at the Trustees’ meeting. Faccenda explained the rationale behind the call for restructuring the Hall Life Board as a necessary change in order to facilitate work and eliminate the problem of a legislative status for the Board by raising it to an adm inistrative level. Faccenda was also asked to explain the reason for the Trustees lim itation of hours. He said it was the feeling o f the Board that they would not be exercising their responsibility if they allowed for the possibility of all night hours at the University. “They felt some lim itation was called for and they tried to create one beyond which there would be no serious argum ent,” Faccenda said. He then conced­ ed there was of course serious argument even against these