The San Francisco call., 1897-07-31
HIS HANDS
MAY Be
UNBOUND
Greater Authority to Be
Granted President
Kellogg.
BUDD'S INFLUENCE SUSPECTED.
Three Important Committees
of the Regents to Be
Dispensed With.
SLACK And HOLDEN TO ADVANCE.
Cursory Methods of the Board Said to
Compare Badly With Those of
Pa1o Alto.
SLACK And HOLDEN TO ADVANCE.
Oursory Methods of the Board Said to
Compare Badly With Those of
PaIo Alto.

BERKELEY, CAL, July 30.-The rights
and prerogatives of President Martin Kel-
logg of the State University are to be
vastly increased. By a resolution now
pending in the Board of Regents his au-
thority will be almost doubled. Much of
the red tape and painful formality now
peculiar to the systems OF the board will
be dispensed with, ana broad step taken
toward establishing a one-man govern
ment at Berkeley. In fact as much of an
advance in this direction as is possible
under the fundamental laws governing
the institution will be made. As far as
the academic government of the institu-
ton is concerned he will be practically an
autocrat.
Three hitherto important committees,
viz: the committe on internal admins
tration, the committee on law and the
Lick Observatory committee, are to be
done away with, and the authority once
exerted by them will be vested in the
pre- esident. This having been done, he
will have absolute power to recommend
directly or to the board any changes in
the government of the institution and the
appointment ofinstructors and professors,
without being first obliged to refer the
matter to the several committees. ~
The question is now in the hands of
special committee, headed by Regent
Denicke, which will recommend at the
next board meeting the mentioned
change. The committees which will lose
their identity by such move are: Inter
nal administration, consisting of Regents
Marye, Slack and Black; law, Regents
Wallace, Rodgers and Reinstein; Lick
Observatory, Regents Phelps and Slack.
Regeut Charles f. Crocksr was also
mem Der of this committee.
As matters now stand, any decrease or
depletion in the fore OF instructors or the
slightest change in the administration OF
the institution ou side OF the immediate
authority of the faculty is required to be
first submitte1 by the president to the
several SuD-com mlttees-
To do their work console ntiously these
committees must spend considerable
time in securing the important details OF
the case, and thus traverse the very ground
justg over by the president. In many
cases they are absolutely unable to secure
sI the necessary Information themselves
and are forced to rely on the judgment of
the president. Thus delay Is occasioned
and the wheels of the university are al
lowed to roll lazily around.
1t is to do away with this tedious COM
mittee work, to expedite matters and to
vest in the president greater aui ihority
that tne cnange IS 10 oe maoe. WIN an
increase in his rights will also come an
advance in the power of Judge Slack as
dean of the Hastings Law College, and OF
DR.. Holden as director OF the Lick
Observatory.
1t has long been argued that the presi-
dent has been hampered in his work by
the rules of administration laid down by
the regents, and because of them he has
been unable to work up to the margin oi
his ability. He has been declared TO be
nothing more than tigurehead subj ,ct