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sideration of section 6; under the debate
schedule, sections 6, 7, and 8 are to be
considered together.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Wheatley,
Vice Chairman of the Committee.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Mr. Chair-
man, we have at this time an amendment
to offer which we would substitute in lieu
of the original language, Amendment MM.
THE CHAIRMAN: Pages will please
distribute amendment MM.
This will be Amendment No. 9.
The Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 9
to Committee Recommendation GP-6 by
Delegates Boyer, Wheatley, Blair, Cald-
well, E. J. Clarke, Jett, Key, Kirkland,
Lord, Pullen, Ritter, K. L. Robie, Singer,
Sosnowski, Vecera:
On pages 2 and 3 strike out all of sec-
tions 6, 7 and 8, comprising lines 28
through 50, inclusive, on page 2 and lines
1 through 6, inclusive, on page 3; and in-
sert in lieu thereof the following:
"Section Higher Education
The governing boards provided by law
for the University of Maryland, the State
Colleges and all other state institutions of
higher education, including community col-
leges, shall formulate policies for their re-
spective institutions and shall have gen-
eral supervision thereof in all academic
matters. Such boards may by law be grant-
ed such additional powers of supervision,
direction and control of their respective in-
stitutions and the expenditure of the funds
thereof as the General Assembly may deem
to be appropriate."
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment hav-
ing been duly submitted and seconded by
the co-sponsors, the Chair recognizes Dele-
gate Wheatley to speak to the amendment.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Mr. Chair-
man and ladies and gentlemen of the Con-
vention, in the mood of the holiday spirit
which has pervaded this body, members of
the minority and majority met over the
weekend with representatives of some of
the institutions of higher education in order
to avoid prolonging the masochistic pro-
ceedings that have accompanied some of
the discussions of our last report. In con-
sidering the recommendations that were
made, we thought it would be highly in-
appropriate to attempt a detailed presen-
tation on higher education since we had
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not, in our last meeting, accorded the same
recognition to the elementary and second-
ary schools.
Further wishing to avoid essentially the
last week of the Convention being engaged
in long debate on many technical points, we
at great length concluded that it would be
much more sensible to recognize that which
the majority and minority have recognized
at the outset, the following essentials: one,
that the boards of the institutions of high-
er education be recognized as the mode of
government for institutions of higher learn-
ing; secondly, that the existing types of
institutions of higher learning be recog-
nized, those being the University of Mary-
land, the state colleges, and the community
colleges; and thirdly, that it is indeed a real
necessity to preserve freedom in academic
matters as expressed by this language; and
finally, that this should be interpreted from
time to time by the General Assembly and
that it would be limited only to the extent
that they would be unreasonable in their
interpretation as a court might determine.
Therefore, with those very real theoretic-
al matters as well as the practical matter
of not having enough votes (laughter), we
again decided that it would be unfair and
unwarranted for those who had pursued the
point in great detail to pursue that same
debate through the balance of this week or
at least through the balance of this day and
for that reason I sincerely recommend to
you for your consideration the language of
Amendment MM, which it will be moved to
be substituted for the more detail provi-
sions and we will trust that this Convention
sitting as a Committee of the Whole would
reaffirm its faith in higher education and
thereby support this unanimous proposal.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any discus-
sion?
Delegate Maurer.
DELEGATE MAURER: I have a ques-
tion for Mr. Wheatley, please, for clarifi-
cation.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wheatley,
do you yield to a question?
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: I will be
happy to yield.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Maurer.
DELEGATE MAURER: In Amendment
MM, line 11, you say all other state institu-
tions of other education including com-
munity colleges and I would like to ask you
to define "State" in that phrase because
community colleges are local colleges; the
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