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Discrimination:
Policy

MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL SESSION
of the
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
February  28, 1970

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The Trustees met in special session on Saturday, February 28, at 9 a.m.  in the Lincoln Room,
Kellogg Center, for the purpose of revising and approving the ftMichigan State University
Anti-Discrimination  Policy and Procedures"  (Brookover Report) previously submitted  to the
Board  of Trustees.

Those  in attendance  at this special meeting were  Trustees Hartman, Huff, Martin, Merriman,
Stevens, and Thompson; President Wharton, Executive Vice President and  Secretary Breslin,
Acting Vice President Wilkinson, Vice President Dickerson, Vice President Muelder, Vice
President  Sabine, Assistant Provost Green, Assistant to the President Ballard, and Attorney
Carr.

Trustees Nisbet and White were absent.

Representing  the Brookover  Committee were professors Brookover, Henderson, Killingsworth,
Kumata, Nickerson, and Messrs. Thornton, McClinton, and Emerson.

Following a brief presentation by Professor  Brookover  and members  of his committee, the Board
of Trustees  considered  the Report  through paragraph by paragraph discussion.

Trustee Huff moved  that Item B-4 under Article III concerning an executive secretary for the
Committee Against Discrimination be referred back to the President for subsequent recommenda-
tion as to how the Committee would  be organized.  The motion failed with Trustees Huff and
Hartman voting  in favor and Trustees  Stevens, Martin, Merriman, and Thompson voting against.

President Wharton* s suggested  change in the wording of Item B-4 allowing  the Director of
Equal Opportunity  Programs  or a person designated by him  to serve as executive  secretary to
the Committee and providing  the Committee with  staff and  legal assistance was presented  in
the form of a motion by Trustee  Stevens.  The motion carried unanimously.

Trustee  Stevens moved  that changes be made in C-1 of Article III whereby any alleged abuse
of investigative powers by the Committee  can be appealed at any time to the President who
shall have authority  to direct corrective action.  The motion was approved  with five members
voting in favor and Trustee Merriman against.

Trustee Stevens moved  that the entire report be approved  as amended.  Trustee Merriman made
an amendment to the motion which was accepted by Trustee  Stevens.  The amendment provides
that the Brookover  Committee  stay in existence  for six months and at the end of that period
the procedures be reviewed by  the Board with  the idea of making  changes  in policies and
procedures  if necessary.  The motion was unanimously approved.  Final copies were  distributed
to the Board of Trustees and are on file in the President's Office and the Secretary's Office.

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Adjourned.

President

Secretary