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DELEGATE MARION: Another ques-
tion, if I might.
If the University of Maryland is to be-
come a principal department and is to have
a board or commission so that it would
come under certain exceptions which are
provided in these sections here, would not,
under this constitutional language, the
board or commission be the head of that
principal department, within the meaning
of those words elsewhere ?
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: It is my understand-
ing that the university would not be a
principal department. I thought that was
fought out pretty thoroughly when this
was before us once before in the Commit-
tee of the Whole.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Marion.
DELEGATE MARION: May I ask fur-
ther whether the word "head" in line 45
means the same to you as the word "head"
in line 28, where in that sentence it is
speaking of the head of a principal depart-
ment and each chief administrative officer,
and then it goes on ,to make an exception
for the head or chief administrative officer
of an institution of higher education or the
state public school system?
THE PRESIDENT.: Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: Whether it does or
does not is beside the point and misses the
thrust of my argument. My argument is, if
you take the word "head" out of line 28, as
your amendment seeks to do, and leave the
words "chief administrative officer" in, you
are not then talking about the president of
the University of Maryland.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any further
discussion?
Delegate Hanson.
DELEGATE HANSON: Mr. President,
as I read this section, I am afraid that both
Delegate Marion and Delegate Case are
correct; and this leads me to a series of
problems with it that I am not sure that we
can correct on the floor.
1 agree with Delegate Case that "chief
executive officer" would be more appropri-
ate, but it would seem to me that the head
of the school system is the Board of Edu-
cation, and if you leave "head or chief ad-
ministrative officer" in, then I am not sure
that I know who appoints the Board of
Education in this case.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Pullen.
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DELEGATE PULLEN: I would like to
ask Delegate Hanson a question.
What is the difference between the au-
thority of the Board of Regents at the
University of Maryland and the State
Board of Education insofar as selection of
the chief administrative officer, or what-
ever you want to call him ?
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Hanson.
DELEGATE HANSON: I take it that
under this section it is intended to be the
same, but the way I read the section I am
not sure it is the same, in light of the col-
loquy which has just occurred.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Pullen.
DELEGATE PULLEN: That is all I
wanted to establish, except to ask Delegate
Case hereafter when he talks about the
University of Maryland, to be kind enough
to include the State board along with it.
THE PRESIDENT: Are you ready for
the question ?
(Call for the question.)
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 15. Delegate Hopkins, did
you want to be recognized ?
DELEGATE HOPKINS: Yes, sir. Maybe
it will not make any difference. That is why
I sat down again.
I wanted to rise to say that I think I
agree with Delegate Case, and just wanted
to say when we get into the state college
system if we take out the word "head" then
there is certainly a great question in my
mind whether you are referring to the six
college presidents or to the administrators
on their six campuses, or the administrator
for all the colleges whose offices are in
Baltimore. We would not know what you
mean by "head."
THE PRESIDENT: Are you ready for
the question ?
(Call for the question.)
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment 15 to Committee Recommen-
dation EB-1 and EB-2 as amended by Re-
port S&D-13. A vote Aye is a vote in favor
of Amendment No. 15. A vote No is a vote
against.
Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted ? Does any
delegate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
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