Student Members to Be Chosen To the Commission of Inquiry

The nine student nominees to the Commission of Inquiry will select two of their number tomorrow to serve on the commission for the rest of this academic year.

The selection of the student members will mean that the commission--which has not met yet this year--can start working on its first case, a complaint about bicycle riding in the Yard.

The nine nominees are all members of one of the three student-Faculty committees. Three were nominated from the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, five from the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and one from the Committee on Graduate Education.

George F. Carrier, McKay Professor of Applied Physics and chairman of the commission, said Friday that he would like to see one of last year's student commission members serve on the commission again this year.

Since only one of last year's student commission members--David L. Johnson '74, the Adams House CHUL representative--has been nominated this year, it appears likely that, if the student nominees follow Carrier's wishes, he will be reelected.

The commission, which resolves complaints about matters under the jurisdiction of the Faculty, was not well known until last year, when radical students submitted complaints about alleged biases in Faculty hiring and in the teaching of Richard Herrnstein, professor of Psychology.

The commission, however, refused to hear either complaint, and the radicals appear to have given up on the commission. James Pope '72-4. a member of the New American Movement who helped draft the hiring and Herrnstein complaints, said earlier this year that he thought the commission was ineffectual and that he would probably not try to deal with it any more.