Faculty Council Views Proposal For Early Semester Calendar

Prospects for a new academic calendar by Fall 1974 look favorable after the Faculty Council yesterday reacted positively to the proposed early semester schedule.

Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, a Council member, said yesterday that the chances that the Faculty will approve the proposal "look really good."

Edward O. Wilson, professor of Zoology and a Council member, said yesterday that the Council had been "very well impressed" by the arguments for revision of the calendar. He added that the members of the Council raised "no substantive questions" about the implementation of an early semester.

Other members of the Council agreed with the statements of Wilson and Horner. Several commented that Faculty opposition to the change is small if not non-existant.

"I don't there's any serious opposition anywhere." Paul G. Bamberg Jr. '63, associate professor of Physics and a Council member, said yesterday.

The entire Faculty will discuss the adoption of the schedule changes at its meeting on April 10, but the actual Faculty vote on revising the schedule is not expected until early May.

Under an early semester calendar, members of the freshman class would arrive before Labor Day, and the two days following the holiday would be used for registration and the first days of classes.

The first term would end before Christmas vacation, and the Spring semester would begin in mid-January and end in mid-May.

The Joint Subcommittee on Revising the Calendar drew up the proposal for an early calendar after investigating similar schedule revisions at other universities.

Members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the Educational Resources Group sit on the subcommittee.

During the meeting, the Faculty Council asked members of the subcommittee to poll graduate students on the possible change. The motion which the Faculty will vote on would change the calendar for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as for the College.

The entire Faculty will discuss the adoption of the schedule changes at its meeting on April 10, but the actual Faculty vote on revising the schedule is not expected until early May.

Under an early semester calendar, members of the freshman class would arrive before Labor Day, and the two days following the holiday would be used for registration and the first days of classes.

The first term would end before Christmas vacation, and the Spring semester would begin in mid-January and end in mid-May.

The Joint Subcommittee on Revising the Calendar drew up the proposal for an early calendar after investigating similar schedule revisions at other universities.

Members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the Educational Resources Group sit on the subcommittee.

During the meeting, the Faculty Council asked members of the subcommittee to poll graduate students on the possible change. The motion which the Faculty will vote on would change the calendar for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as for the College.