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the head of the Majority members of this Committee, and I

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would urge its rejection should be obvious, but perhaps

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the most subtle and destructive part of the Majority Report

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is found in Section 7, which places the Advisory Council

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on Higher Education in the Constitution.

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You can see by the letter that was on your

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desk today when you returned from lunch that this was

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over the dead body of the Advisory Council on Higher

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Education because they have urged that this whole Majority

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Report be struck and the Minority Report be substituted in

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its place. What this means is the Advisory Council which

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was created also in 1963 and has some control over the

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course of higher education in Maryland by statute would fort

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ever be stripped of this control by virtue of the fact that

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all three branches of higher education would receive con-

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stitutional autonomy. The role of the Advisory Council

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would be relegated to that of assisting in the coordinating

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of programs of higher education. Consequently, higher

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education could ride off in three different directions, and

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the Advisory Council would have nothing to say about it; so

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despite the supposed favor done to the Advisory Council,