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authority for across-the-board autonomy for everyone.

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Let's apply the standards, and these standards

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are the ones that the Majority must agree to or it would

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not have cited this report to this Board of State Colleges.

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This board has been in existence exactly four years. It

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has never requested statutory autonomy from the legislature.

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It comes to this Constitutional Convention for the first

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time and requests constitutional autonomy for all times.

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The board has a staff, a total budget of

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$80,198; it has one executive director and three staff

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specialists to run six full-blown colleges in this State.

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They simply do not meet the requirements set out in the

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Eisenhower Report. Perhaps some day they will, and we

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of the Minority certainly hope that when they do, they

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will present their case to the General Assembly, where

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certainly it would be appropriate, and will withdraw

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this rather vague pie-in-the-sky notion that this Conven-

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tion will see fit to incorporate in the Constitution

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autonomy for these types of institutions. The idea for

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the Board of State Colleges came out of the famous Curlett

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Commission Report in 1962.