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1	twenty years, had it really be plagued by problems. I
2	believe that the thing that we are talking about here is
3	that when a board does not have firm authority on a
4	reasonable continuing basis — now, certainly, the
5	Constitution could be changed by the voters; but where
6	it can be changed in any given session of the legisla-
7	ture, it has somewhat of a dampening effect on the extent
8	to which it will, move ahead in pursuing new knowledge
9	and in fact pushing this knowledge so that people will
10	fully understand it. I think that this is where we are
11	really concerned.
12	I don't believe the university can say it has
13	been plagued. I think perhaps, and I've not been in the
14	central administration in the period prior to 1953, when
15	the Autonomy Act went through; I think prior to that
16	there were considerable problems in the minor acts of
17	running a university. You don't approve a new position
18	and therefore you can't get going on something. I have
19	to say that since the Autonomy Act went through, there
20	has not been too much, or certainly no major problems
21	of this type.