Student Committee Will Advise Government Majors Next Year

An ad hoe eight-person working committee of government concentrators has established a structural plan and a tentative agenda for a Government Concentrators Committee which will consist of all interested concentrators.

One of the main functions of the committee will be to facilitate communication between the Government Department and its concentrators, Peter Biagetti '78, a member of the ad hoe committee, said yesterday.

Cold Aura

Biagetti said this will improve the image of the department by "dissipating the myth of a draconian grading policy" and ending the "aura of coldness" which many students think is a characteristic of the department.

The committee is "a wonderful idea," Nancy L. Rosenblum, associate professor of Government, said yesterday, adding that it can "help us understand the undergraduates' needs better."

Rosenblum said the ad hoe committee's specific programs are "outstanding."

Analysis

The programs on the agenda proposed by the ad hoe committee include an evaluation of the four introductory courses and their bypasses which will "endeavor to provide a more substantive and insightful analysis of those courses...than is presently available in other course evaluation guides."

The committee, working with the Government Department, will try to create volunteer and paid jobs for undergraduate concentrators by contacting graduates of the University.

The ad hoe committee Proposes that this program be limited to the U.S. Congress at first and then expanded to "other branches of the government and public sector as the committee and, the department see fit."

The committee may also serve as a source of information for organizations, such as the Freshman Task Force and the Freshman Dean's Office, which advise undergraduates on concentration selection.

Selection Process

The committee will be elected next fall and will consist of three sophomores; one member from each field of government (political theory, comparative government, American government, and international relations) to be elected from and by the concentrators in the junior and senior classes; and one member each from the junior and senior classes elected at large from those classes.