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1972-04-21 Daily Iowan Article: ""Delay action on monitor plan""

DI 4/21/72
Panel needs more information
Delay action on monitor plan

The University of Iowa Security Committee will not recommend the implementation of its tentative faculty-student monitor plan at this time. 
"I don't see how the committee can make a recommendation until we've received more input from students," committee chairman Gene F. Lata said. 
Three weeks ago the committee sent a letter to UT faculty and staff members asking whether they would serve as monitors in times of campus unrest if such a system were established. 
Over 500 UI faculty and staff members indicated they would serve as monitors, but Leta said that the list of volunteers represented "more of an informational inquiry," than the implementation of the plan. 
"No monitoring system has been set up," Lata said. "We were only interested in seeing who might volunteer for such a system."
Lata said the committee sought and received approval of the proposed monitoring system by local law enforcement officials to avoid confusion if the system were ever used. 
Two weeks ago Student Senate okayed a resolution recommending that no monitor system by established. 
"That's the type of information we'd have liked to have had a long time ago," Lata said. 
He said the Security Committee is trying to "make sure that any peaceful, legal activities that have been planned can be carried out."
That may or may not mean the committee will recommend some kind of action, he said. 
"Ideally there should not have to be any kind of organization," Lata said.

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DI 4/21/72 Panel needs more information Delay action on monitor plan The University of Iowa Security Committee will not recommend the implementation of its tentative faculty-student monitor plan at this time. "I don't see how the committee can make a recommendation until we've received more input from students," committee chairman Gene F. Lata said. Three weeks ago the committee sent a letter to UT faculty and staff members asking whether they would serve as monitors in times of campus unrest if such a system were established. Over 500 UI faculty and staff members indicated they would serve as monitors, but Leta said that the list of volunteers represented "more of an informational inquiry," than the implementation of the plan. "No monitoring system has been set up," Lata said. "We were only interested in seeing who might volunteer for such a system." Lata said the committee sought and received approval of the proposed monitoring system by local law enforcement officials to avoid confusion if the system were ever used. Two weeks ago Student Senate okayed a resolution recommending that no monitor system by established. "That's the type of information we'd have liked to have had a long time ago," Lata said. He said the Security Committee is trying to "make sure that any peaceful, legal activities that have been planned can be carried out." That may or may not mean the committee will recommend some kind of action, he said. "Ideally there should not have to be any kind of organization," Lata said.