Recognizing the constraints of the Task Force's schedule, College Park's observations shall be focused on some of the administrative implications of the proposed recommendations, rather than on more general aspects of the Report.
Universities exist to foster exploration and personal discovery, to offer and permit the new.
We seek to encourage a free and open access to a diversity of philosophies and beliefs. Our policies, need, therefore, to favor the liberties of individual choice, rather than control. There are some ambiguities in the Recommendation, however, which in their operation may promote the opposite effect. The Report describes the threshold difficulty faced by the Task Force in agreeing what type of group was to be the object of its inquiry. We understand there was no consensus among the Task Force members, and the Report purposely offers no definition.