Meeting

Rosenblatt, assistant professor of English, on the new Commission on Inquiry. Created by the Faculty last May to serve as an ombudsman for the Harvard community, the commission is composed of three members of the Faculty Council-Dean Epps, Rosenblatt, and Doris Kearns, assistant professor of Government-and two student volunteers from the Supercaucus, the informal group of all the students on all the various student-faculty committees.

Rosenblatt said the Commission is open for business, and that it will accept inquiries and complaints in writing and attempt to direct them to the appropriate agency.

If the inquirer or complainant has applied to the appropriate agency without success, or if the problem involves no one particular agency, the Commission will intercede on his or her behalf, or apply to the Faculty or Faculty Council for an ad hoc arrangement, he said.

"We're trying to take the jargon element out of the word 'communication,'" Rosenblatt said.

Breaker

Dunlop said the Faculty's budget problem-which he refused to label a "crisis"-will force an "absolute reduction" in the number of non-tenured appointments next year. He said he will meet with the head of every department to see where cuts might be made, rather than turn to such "gross methods" as the job freeze instituted last month at Yale.

In the years 1960-67, the Faculty built up a surplus in its unrestricted account of $9 million. "Any dean of this Faculty would today rejoice if some prophet could assure him that the seven fat years of the 1960s would be followed by no more than seven lean years in the 1970s," Dunlop said.