RESOLUTION OF THE AD HOC FACULTY GROUP

April 28, 1968

We believe that there is a fundamental crisis which is shaking the foundations of this University and that thus far no solution has been found. The Ad Hoc Faculty Group proposes what we believe may be the last possibility of peaceful settlement.

I    We recommend that the President establish the Tripartite Commission in the form defined in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee composed of Professors Galanter, Hovde and Trilling.
We recommend that the University statutes be revised by the Trustees so that the Tripartite Commission serve as the body of ultimate judicial review on all matters affecting University discipline.

We believe that the dimensions and complexity of the current crisis demand that a new approach of collective responsibility be adopted, and in this light insist that uniform penalties be applied to all violators of the discipline of the University.

II    All excavation work at the gymnasium site having been suspended, we now recommend that the Trustees at their next meeting, which we urge occur within three days, request the Mayor of the City of New York urgently to convene a panel composed of:

1. a. representatives of the Trustees,
2. b. representatives of the Community appointed by the Mayor,
3. c. representatives of the Faculty to be chosen by the Faculty themselves.

We recommend that this panel review the gymnasium and adopt an alternative to the present plans. Should the alternative involve remaining on the present site, this plan shall be acceptable to the representatives of the Community.

III    We request that once the President indicates that he accepts these resolutions as his recommendations to the Trustees, we call upon the students now improperly occupying various buildings to vacate these buildings immediately and to submit themselves to due process as shall now be established.

IV    These proposals being in our judgment a just solution to the crisis our University is presently undergoing, we pledge that

1. a. If the President will not adopt these proposals, we shall take all measures within our several consciences to prevent the use of force to vacate these buildings.
2. b. if the President does accept our proposals but the students in the buildings refuse to evacuate these buildings, we shall refuse further to interpose ourselves between the Administration and the students.

V    We cannot believe that the Trustees, charged with the welfare of all segments of the University, will not accept a solution regarded as just by students, faculty, and the President.

VI    As members of the faculty, we are determined to do everything within our power rapidly to resume the full life of this institution in the firm expectation that our proposals will permit a climate to prevail that will once again allow reason, judgment and order to reign.