Report on the Simon Fraser University dispute with members of the PSA Department (Winter 1970)

On 14 July, the Dean recommended to the President In June, four members of the PSA Department, the establishment of a 5-man trusteeship for PSA, and including the member elected by the department as urged PSA to name 2 members. [...] The PSA Department was administered the PSA departmental majority, which in turn led to under the trusteeship (up to 14 October) under the the resignation of the Acting Chairman. [...] Each letter sent by the vote, and of reprisals; one could see on the horizon Acting President to PSA faculty members on the the possibilities of picket lines, of construction committees' recommendations contained the workers, faculty and students being asked not to cross assurance that the Board would reverse any decision them, of violence, of police on campus. [...] to review the present relationships of the PSA Department to the University; (b) provision for a On 3-4 September, the Executive Secretary of the suitable agency of appeal for the 10 faculty members C. [...] During the earlier part of December, 1969, various members of the PSA Department were appealing their suspension to the Board of Governors of SFU, under the provisions of the University Act, and were naming arbitrators for the hearings on dismissal, as was the University.