Committee to Request Delay of Examinations

Dean May will ask the Faculty today to allow all students but seniors to postpone their Spring exams and papers to next Fall so that they will be free now to "engage in constructive political action" against President Nixon's Indochina policy.

The student-Faculty Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, which May chairs, yesterday approved a resolution to this effect. The committee discussed, but decided against, the possibility of eliminating Spring exams entirely and giving passing grades to all students.

"The public could have interpreted that as simply meaning that students wanted to get out of their exams; this would take a way from their view of students as committed," May said last night.

"And completely eliminating exams this Spring would be almost taking the Agnew position that what goes on in universities doesn't matter," he added.

Under the committee's plan-which May read to last night's strike meeting in Sanders Theatre-seniors cannot postpone their Spring academic work beyond commencement.

Today's Faculty meeting begins at 4 p. m. in Sanders and will be broadcast on WHRB, 95.3 FM. The docket includes a motion by Charles G. Gross '57, lecturer on Psychology and co-chairman of last night's meeting, which raises the case of Chester W. Hartman '57, radical assistant professor of City Planning in the Design School whose contract is not being extended beyond June-allegedly for political reasons.