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that in our opinion the existing constitution is too "democratic" and too cumbrous for local needs.
80. According to section 8(1) of the Ordinance the
Vice-Chancellor
"shall be the chief administrative officer
of the University, and shall have such
powers and duties as the Council shall
assign to him”.
So far as we are aware the Council has never defined those powers or those duties and the Statutes are silent on this point. It would indeed seem that his statutory powers are limited to a single vote, liable to be over- ruled by the majoritv. in Senate, Council and Court. We would suggest that he should be given definite authority to give orders to his staff and such statutory powers as would ensure, without further ado, that those orders are obeyed.
81. As regards the Senate, we are strongly of the opinion that its sphere should be rigidly confined to academic matters and that all else should be liable to be ruled, under Statute, to be out of order. This would seem to be implicit under the specific terms of seventeen of the eight een paragraphs of Statute 10, but the whole of these are nullified by the very wide terms of paragraph 8 of that Statute, which reads:
"To discuss and declare an opinion on any
matter what sover relating to the University".
The simple deletion of that paragraph would in our opinion be of great advantage to the discipline of the University.
Even though the question may in practice only
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