He also reported that activities for graduate students are on the rise. He asked that members of both organizations send questions to him in advance. As chair of the A-3 Assembly, Donna Arthur thanked supporters of the Holiday Bazaar which funds the Assembly. The rewriting of the group's constitution is in progress and the Board is expected to approve a final draft in time for the next Council meeting. The Assembly is actively involved in the planning of the Skills Development Center, for which she thanked Ms. McKee.
Verbatim remarks are to be published in a future issue.
Most of the issues brought before Council in the third annual Open Forum meeting were routed to the Council Steering Committee either for assignment to a Council Committee or for Steering's disposition. A preliminary response to a request to consider the establishment sexual minority studies was that academic matters are beyond Council's purview, but Interim Provost Wachter and others gave advice on taking the proposal through academic routes.