January 23, 2012

FACULTY SENATE MEETING MINUTES
January 23, 2012
3:15 p.m., 601 Rudder Tower
http://facultysenate.tamu.edu
 
 
Present: Louise Abbott, Derya Akleman, Ergun Akleman, Jorge Alvarado, Carisa Armstrong, Hassan Bashir, Michael Benedik, Leonard Bierman, Edward Brothers, John Carhart, William Bedford Clark, Jonathan Coopersmith, Richard Curry, Robin Dabareiner, Swaroop Darbha, Walter  Daugherity, Darryl De Ruiter, Janice Epstein, Jose Fernandez-Solis, Edward Funkhouser, Norma Funkhouser, Holly Gaede, Fran Gelwick, Clare Gill, Ira Greenbaum, Janet Hammer, Mike Hanik, Ed Harris, Kevin Heinz, Kim Quaile Hill, Shelley Holliday, Richard Hutchinson, Wendy Jepson, Guido Kanschat, Andrew Klein, Karen Kubena, Paulo  Lima-Filho, Blanca Lupiani, Igor Lyuksyutov,  Clint Magill,  Vanita  Mahajan, Stephen  Miller,  Jeffrey Morris, A. Gene Nelson, Brian Perkins, Harland Prechel, Sudarsan Rangan, Leslie Reynolds, Dale Rice, J. Maurice Rojas, Luis San Andres, Jason Sawyer, Karen-Beth Scholthof, Brian Shaw, Kathleen Speed, John Stallone, Elizabeth Tebeaux, Mike Thornton, Grace Townsend, Manuelita Ureta, Gary Varner, Wei Wan, William West, Tryon Wichersham, B. Dan Wood, Richard Woodman, Jim Woosley, Keyan Zhu-Salzman
 
Absent: Jaime Alvarado-Bremer, Perla Balbuena, Judith Ball, Maria Barrufet, Doug Biggs, Charles Bollfrass, Patrick Burkart, Gwendolyn Carroll, Joe Cerami, Gwan Seong Choi, Mark Clayton, Joe Dannenbaum, Ron Douglas, John Edens, Gioia Falcone, L. Paige Fields, Stephen Guetersloh, Karl Haupt, James Heilman, Thomas Linton, Carol Loopstra, R.N. Mahapatra, Sam Mannan, Christopher Mathewson, Kathryn McKenzie, Michelle Pine, Richard Stadelmann, Douglas Starr, Bob Strawser, Winfried Teizer, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, Jijayanagaram Venkatraj
 
Call to Order:
Speaker Benedik called the meeting to order at 3:17 P.M. There were two senators from Galveston present via videoconferencing.
  
Speaker  Comments:
Speaker Benedik discussed the Senate Officers' visit at our Qatar campus. He said they were able to meet with one of the Senators, Ed Brothers, and a large fraction of the TAMU faculty at Qatar to learn about the unique faculty issues they have.
 
Dr. Benedik then stated President Loftin briefed the EC last week. He has made a request for a substantial tuition hike to meet the increased costs that are anticipated for next year. He acknowledged that Merit increases are well overdue and has gotten that message loudly from the faculty and from the Deans. On top of which are significant increases in unfunded legislative mandates. Once there is a better idea on what the BOR will support, President Loftin has agreed to update the Senate on what that means for next years budget. It is still too early to know.
 
Speaker Benedik briefly discussed how the Core Curriculum Council has been working hard on developing a plan to meet the new requirements from the Coordinating Board and how he thinks we are still on schedule for that to come to the full Senate in March or April.
 
He announced that we are still planning to have our regularly scheduled Senate meeting in February on the 13th and the joint UT Faculty Caucus and TAMU Faculty Senate meeting is also scheduled for late February.
 
Speaker-Elect Stallone previewed the upcoming February 27, 2012, annual joint meeting with the University of Texas’ Faculty Council and announced that in addition to the two university presidents, state senators Steve Ogden (Senate Finance Committee Chair) and Judith Zaffirini (Senate Higher Education Committee Chair) will speak in the plenary sessions. There will also be three breakout sessions, on core curriculum, faculty accountability, and faculty rights (academic freedom and speech). The meeting will be held in the Hagler Alumni Center.
 
Speaker Benedik noted that today the senate office emailed senators proposed changes to the core rule on faculty responsibility, promotion, tenure, and review; he encouraged prompt feedback. He then encouraged senators to come to the second Faculty Night Out at the University Club, Friday, Jan 27.
 

Guest Speaker:
Speaker Benedik introduced guest speaker Pamela Matthews, who provided an update on the upcoming decennial SACS reaccreditation visit April 2-5, for which our Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is mandatory. Ben Wu’s slides from the last meeting are posted at http://provost.tamu.edu/initiatives/QEP.  She said Texas A&M won’t be reaccredited without approval of our QEP, and the SACS visitors will ask faculty about it; consequently she urged faculty to see this as an opportunity to focus on all aspects of student learning, and welcomed feedback on our QEP. She is currently preparing Texas A&M’s response to the SACS off-site report; this response is due February 20th. The next Commitment to Excellence Dialogue, to be held at 4:00 P.M. on February 2nd in Rudder Theater, will focus specifically on our QEP, "Aggies Commit to Learning for    a Lifetime."
 
Kim Hill (Political Science) asked for clarification on her recent message underlining that every course and program change, no matter how small, must go through the full approval process. Pamela Matthews confirmed that this is correct. Kim Hill then asked what the Strategic Plan 2010-2015’s call for increasing our undergraduate graduation rate will mean in practice, and how the college targets were determined. Pamela Matthews said it was by discussion with the deans. It was noted that our target is the four-year graduation rate, while federal statistics track the six-year graduation rate.
 
Karan Watson elaborated that modeling based on our peer institutions indicated that our annual graduation rate should increase from 11,300 to 12,500 and this has been apportioned to the colleges.  Part of that is the number of incoming freshmen and transfers, and part is the rate of progress (which has been for the most part been below that of our peers).
 
Beth Tebeaux (Liberal Arts) said some states have high requirements for high school graduation.  Karan Watson said Texas has kept changing the state tests and requirements, and noted that A&M and UT see a need to distinguish “Tier-1 college ready” from “college ready.”

 
The December 12 Faculty Senate meeting minutes were approved as submitted.             Motion Passed 
                                                                                                                                             FS.29.108
                                                                                                                                             Attachment A
 
Consent Agenda    The consent agenda was approved as submitted.                   Motion Passed
GRADUATE COUNCIL                                                                                             FS.29.109
New Courses - December 1, 2011                                                                          Attachment B          
ARCH 669 Foundations of Research in Architecture  
EDCI 632 Program Evaluation in Curriculum and Instruction  
GEOL 653 Geobiological  Research  
HORT 626 International Floriculture Marketing  
MARB 604 Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals and Seabirds of New Zealand  
SCSC 629 Laboratory Quality Systems  
SCSC 634 Regulatory Science: Principles & Practices in Food Systems  
SCSC 635 Comparative Global Standards in Food Systems  
SCSC 636 Regulatory Science Methodology in Food Systems  
VIBS 611 Tumor Cell Biology and Carcinogenesis  
VIZA 630 Contemporary Art Studio/Seminar I  
VIZA 631 Contemporary Art Studio/Seminar II  
VTMI 629 Laboratory Quality Systems  
WFSC 643 Geospatial Technology in Military Land Management  
 
Course Changes - December 1, 2011                                                      Motion Passed   
AERO 625 Digital Control of Aerospace Systems FS.29.110
AGEC 605 Rural Real Estate Appraisal and Organization Attachment C 
ARCH 601 Design Fundamentals I  
ARCH 610 Visual Communications  
ARCH 619 Applied Solar Energy  
ARCH 621 Energy Optimization in Building Design  
ARCH 625 Sustainable Housing Design  
ARCH 631 Architectural Structures III  
ARCH 633 Environmental Systems III  
ARCH 634 Architectural Lighting  
ARCH 647 Recording Historic Buildings  
GENE 643 Quantitative Genetics and Plant Breeding  
SCSC 643 Quantitative Genetics and Plant Breeding  
 
Course Withdrawals - December 1, 2011                                                                    Motion Passed                      
ARCH 677                               Neuroscience and Architecture                                      FS.29.111         
FLOR 691                               Research                                                                        Attachment D
FLOR 693                               Professional Study
 
 
Special Consideration - December 1, 2011                                                                 Motion Passed                              College of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning                          FS.29.112
Proposal for a 4+2 Program for BLA + MUP                                                                  Attachment E
Bachelors of Landscape Architecture + Masters of Urban Planning

 
Special Consideration - December 1, 2011                                                                   Motion Passed                            College of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning                            FS.29.113
Proposal for a 4+2 Program for BLA + MSLD                                                                 Attachment F
Bachelors of Landscape Architecture + Masters of Science in Land evelopment


Special Consideration - December 1, 2011                                                                 Motion Passed                            College of Liberal Arts                                                                                                    FS.29.114
Proposal for a Graduate Certificate in Film and Media Studies.                                     Attachment G

 
Special Consideration - December 1, 2011                                                               Motion Passed                                College of Agriculture and Life Sciences                                                                      FS.29.115                                      
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences                                                                        Attachment H
Proposal for a Graduate Certificate in Regulatory Science in Food Systems
 
 
UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE                                                      Motion Passed
New Course - December 8, 2011                                                                                 FS.29.116                                      
ALEC 450                              Global Social Justice Issues in Agriculture                     Attachment I                                  
ALEC 494                                Internship
ANTH 323                               Nautical Archaeology of the Mediterranean
ANTH 360                             Ancient Civilizations of the World
ANTH 412                               Archaeological Theory
ANTH 418                                Romans, Arabs, and Vikings—Seafaring in the Mediterranean during the
                                               early Christian Era
ANTH 434                             Human Evolutionary Ecology II: Reproduction and Parenting
ANTH 440                               Studies in Globalization
ANTH 445                             Studies in African Diaspora
ANTH 461                               Environmental Archaeology
BIOL 350                                 Computational Genomics
BIOL 400                                 Tropical Ecology Costa Rica
BMEN 427                               Magnetic Resonance Engineering
COMM 437                              Visual Communication
COMM 471                              Media, Health and Medicine
ECEN 463                               Magnetic Resonance Engineering
ECEN 465                               Experimental Optics
ENTC 333                               Product Development
HISP 201                                 Current Issues in Hispanic Studies
HISP 205                                 Don Quixote and the Other Arts
HISP 206                                 Food in the Hispanic World
JOUR 455                               Literary  Nonfiction
MATH 437                               Principles of Numerical Analysis
MEEN 361                               Materials and Manufacturing in Design Laboratory
MEEN 417                               Basics of Plasma Engineering and Applications
PHYS 102                             Freshman Physics Orientation II
PHYS 444                             Art of Communication in Physics I: Communicating Science to Scientists
PHYS 445                             Art of Communication in Physics II: Communicating Science to Non-Scientists
VIST 442                                Digital Characters: Art, Technology, Uses and Meaning
VMID 927                              Community Connections
WFSC 433                            Molecular Ecology in Wildlife and Fisheries
 
 
Change in Courses - December 8, 2011
AGEC 484                                         Internship
AGEC 485                               Directed Studies
AGEC 491                               Research
ANTH 424                               Introduction to Human Evolutionary Ecology
ASTR 119                                Big Bang and Black Holes: Laboratory Methods
BIOL 358                                 Ecology Laboratory
CHEM 102                            Fundamentals of Chemistry II
CHEM 112                            Fundamentals of Chemistry Laboratory II
CHEM 238                               Organic Chemistry Laboratory
COMM 230                              Communication Technology Skills
EHRD 408                               Diversity Issues and Practices in HRD
ENGL 221                               World Literature
ENGL 222                               World Literature
ENGL 227                               American Literature: Colonial to American Renaissance
ENGL 232                             Survey of English Literature II
ENGL 321                               Nineteenth-Century Literature (Romantic)
ENGL 331                               Fantasy Literature
ENGL 337                               Life and Literature of the American South
ENGL 350                             Twentieth-Century Literature Pre-World War II
ENGL 352                             Twentieth-Century Literature Post-World War II
ENGL 360                               Literature for Children
ENGL 361                               Literature for Adolescents
ENGL 376                               Twentieth-Century American Novel
ENGL 377                               English Novel to 1870
ENGL 378                               The English Novel, 1870 to Present
ENGL 386                               Creative Nonfiction
HIST 360                                 History of the American Petroleum Industry
HIST 435                                 Tudor England, 1450-1603
HIST 436                                 Stuart England, 1603-1714
HIST 447                                 Constitutional History of the United States to 1901
JOUR 230                               Communication Technology Skills
MATH 172                               Calculus
MATH 220                               Foundations of Mathematics
MATH 304                               Linear Algebra
MATH 309                             Linear Algebra for Differential Equations
MATH 311                             Topics in Applied Mathematics I
MATH 323                               Linear Algebra
MATH 415                             Modern Algebra I
MATH 416                             Modern Algebra II
MATH 417                             Numerical Analysis I
MATH 491                               Research
MEEN 221                               Statics and Particle Dynamics
MEEN 360                               Materials and Manufacturing Selection in Design
MODL 221                               World Literature
MODL 222                               World Literature
NVSC 102                             Leadership and Management I
NVSC 203                               Naval Ships Systems I: Engineering
NVSC 302                               Naval Operations and Seamanship
PHYS 101                                Freshman Physics Orientation
PHYS 119                                Big Bang and Black Holes: Laboratory Methods
 
 
**Attachment J moved to Committee  Reports                                                                                 
Attachment J under Committe Reports
 
 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                                Motion Passed                                              
College of Architecture                                                                                  FS.29.117
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning                        Attachment K
B.L.A. in Landscape Architecture
 
 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                                Motion Passed                                      Dwight Look College of Engineering                                                             FS.29.118
Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution              Attachment L
B.S in Engineering Technology
Electronics Engineering Technology Option

 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                                  Motion Passed                                            Dwight Look College of Engineering                                                               FS.29.119
Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution                Attachment M
B.S in Engineering Technology
Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology Option

 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                                  Motion Passed                                            Dwight Look College of Engineering                                                               FS.29.120
Department of Nuclear Engineering                                                                Attachment N
B.S. in Nuclear Engineering
 

Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                                  Motion Passed                                            
College of Geosciences                                                                                 FS.29.121
B.S. in Environmental Geosciences                                                               Attachment O
 
 
**Attachment P moved to Committee Reports                                                                         
Attachment P under Committe Reports
 
 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                                   Motion Passed                                            College of Liberal Arts                                                                                      FS.29.122
Department of Communication                                                                        Attachment Q
B.A. in Communication
B.A. in Telecommunication Media Studies
B.S. in Telecommunication Media Studies

Attachment Q

 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                                 Motion Passed                                              College of Liberal Arts                                                                                    FS.29.123
Department of Hispanic Studies                                                                     Attachment R
B.A. in Spanish
 
 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                               Motion Passed                                                College of Liberal Arts                                                                                 FS.29.124
Department of Psychology                                                                          Attachment S
B.A. in Psychology
B.S. in Psychology

 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                          Motion Passed           
College of Science                                                                                  FS.29.125
Department of Mathematics                                                                    Attachment T
B.S. in Mathematics

 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                         Motion Passed                                                      College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences                     FS.29.126
D.V.M. Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine                            Attachment U

 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                                                             Motion Passed  College of Agriculture and Life Sciences                                                                                                   FS.29.127
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management Watershed Certificate – requirement changes     Attachment V

 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                 Motion Passed                                              College of Agriculture and Life Sciences                                                       FS.29.128
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences                                             Attachment W
B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Option
Natural Resource Collections & Museums Emphasis Aquatic Ecology and Conservation Option
Fisheries Ecology Emphasis Aquatic Emphasis
Vertebrate Zoology Option Pre-professional  Emphasis
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emphasis
Request to remove emphases
 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                     Motion Passed                                         College of Agriculture and Life Sciences                                                          FS.29.129
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences                                                 Attachment X
B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Option Aquatic Ecology and Conservation Option Vertebrate Zoology Option
Request to change grade requirements
 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                   Motion Passed                                          College of Architecture                                                                                     FS.29.130
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning                           Attachment Y
B.L.A. in Landscape Architecture and M.S. in Land Development Request for a 4+2 Degree Program
 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                     Motion Passed                                         
College of Architecture                                                                                       FS.29.131
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning                             Attachment Z
B.L.A. in Landscape Architecture and M. of Urban Planning Request for a 4+2 Degree Program
 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                    Motion Passed        
Mays Business School                                                                                      FS.29.132
Department of Accounting                                                                                Attachment AA
Request for a new Certificate in Energy Accounting
 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                     Motion Passed            
Mays Business School                                                                                       FS.29.133
                                                                                                                           Attachment BB
Department of Information and Operations Management BBA in Information and Operations Management
Request to create two stand-alone degree programs
(BBA in Management Information Systems and BBA in Supply Chain Management) and discontinue the existing degree program

 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                  Motion Passed                                            
College of Geosciences                                                                                  FS.29.134
Minor in Earth Science – requirement changes                                             Attachment CC

 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                   Motion Passed                                        College of Geosciences                                                                                   FS.29.135
Minor in Environmental Geosciences Request for a new minor                      Attachment DD

 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                                Motion Passed                                              
College of Liberal Arts                                                                                   FS.29.136
General Degree Requirements-Electives                                                      Attachment EE
Request to change number of hours allowed for electives
 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                               Motion Passed                                                College of Liberal Arts                                                                                  FS.29.137
American Studies Program                                                                          Attachment FF
B.A. in American Studies
Request to discontinue degree program
 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                               Motion Passed                                                College of Liberal Arts                                                                                  FS.29.138
Department of Anthropology                                                                        Attachment GG
B.A. in Anthropology
Request for a new Archaeology Track
 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                              Motion Passed                                                College of Liberal Arts                                                                                 FS.29.139
Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures              Attachment HH
B.A. in French
B.A. in German
B.A. in Russian
Request to consolidate degree programs into B.A. in Modern Languages with concentrations in French, German, & Russian


 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                             Motion Passed                                                College of Liberal Arts                                                                                FS.29.140
Department of Hispanic Studies                                                                 Attachment II
Minor in Spanish – requirement changes

 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                         Motion Passed                                                    College of Liberal Arts                                                                            FS.29.141
Minor in Religious Studies – requirement changes                                Attachment JJ 
 
 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                         Motion Passed                                                      College of Liberal Arts                                                                            FS.29.142
Department of Psychology                                                                     Attachment KK
Minor in Psychology – requirement changes

 
Special Consideration - December 8, 2011                                      Motion Passed                                                        
College of Science                                                                              FS.29.143
Department of Biology                                                                        Attachment LL
Minor in Biology – requirement changes 
 

 
Special Consideration - From November 2011 UCC meeting             Motion Passed                               
Dwight Look College of Engineering                                                      FS.29.144
University Studies Degree                                                                      Attachment MM
Area of Concentration - Telecommunications Technology Request to discontinue degree program

 
Special Consideration - From November 2011 UCC meeting                   Motion Passed                                                Dwight Look College of Engineering                                                            FS.29.145
Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution             Attachment NN
B.S. in Engineering Technology
Telecommunications Engineering Technology Option Request to discontinue degree option
 
 
Texas A&M University at Galveston                                                              Motion Passed
New Courses - December 8, 2011                                                                   FS.29.146                                                 
MARE 314 Gas Turbine Power Generation Attachment OO
NAUT 200 Basic Communications, Navigation and Seamanship  
NAUT 300
NAUT 400		 Intermediate Communications, Navigation and Seamanship Advanced Communications, Navigation and Seamanship  
 
Change in Courses - December 8, 2011
NVSC 203                               Naval Ships Systems I: Engineering
NVSC 320                               Naval Operations and Seamanship
 
 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                               Motion Passed                                                Texas A&M University at Galveston                                                             FS.29.147
Department of Marine Biology                                                                     Attachment PP
B.S in Marine Biology-License Option 
 
W-COURSES                                                                                          Motion Passed
December 16, 2011                                                                                 FS.29.148
W certification:   Attachment QQ
ENGL 481 Senior Seminar: The Cultural Jane Austen  
INST 462 Language Acquisition and Development  
CLAS 491 Research  
ENGL 481 Senior Seminar: History of the Book  
 
W recertification:
ANSC 414                               Sheep and Goat Production
ANSC 491                               Undergraduate Research with Writing Credit
COMM/WGST 407                  Women, Minorities, and Mass Media  
COMM 410                              Radio, Records and Popular Music
COMM 415                              New Media and Civil Society
COMM/AFST 425                     Rhetoric of Social Movements
COMM 447                              Communication, Group Processes and Collaboration
GEOL 311                               Principles of Geological Writing
MATH 220                               Foundations of Mathematics
MATH 491                               Research
OCEN 410                               Ocean Engineering Laboratory
PHIL 381                                 Ethical Theory
POLS 323                                Political Systems of Latin America
RDNG 371                               Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Literature of Middle Schools
RLEM 430                               Advanced Restoration Ecology
 
 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE                                                                                          Motion Passed 
Proposed Revisions to Student Rules 1.7, 8.4.3, and 14.21                                        FS.29.149                                                                                                                                                                           Attachment RR
 
 
                                                                             End of Consent Agenda                                                                                        
Committee Reports
UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE                                                    Motion Passed
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                                               FS.29.150
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences                                                                     Attachment J
B.S. in Environmental Studies
Attachment J was moved and opened for discussion.  Janice Epstein (Science) asked why there were two identically named degree programs.  Sarah Bednarz (Associate Dean of Geosciences) was recognized; she said when the program was created it was a shared program between the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and of Geosciences, but the programs are now separate.  Attachment J was approved.

 
Change in Curriculum - December 8, 2011                                                      Motion Passed                                        
College of Geosciences                                                                                      FS.29.151
B.S. in Environmental Studies                                                                            Attachment P

  
New Business

 
Committee of the Whole
Speaker Benedik then turned the chair over to Speaker-Elect Stallone to convene the Committee of the Whole.
Clint Magill (Agriculture and Life Sciences) recommended that to improve continuity the membership of the Committee on Academic Freedom, Responsibility, and Tenure (CAFRT) be changed to three members from each college and the libraries, with one of the three elected each year for a three-year term.
 
Bob Bednarz (Geosciences) observed that due to construction, the sidewalk between the new Humanities building and Animal Industries serves a   large number of pedestrians, who are endangered by bicyclists who ride on the sidewalk instead of walking their bikes or using streets and bicycle lanes. He was able to get “No Riding” signs posted there, and asked that the University Police be requested to enforce that periodically. Clint Magill (Agriculture and Life Sciences) said those signs have been removed and the walkway widened.
 
Bedford Clark (Liberal Arts) said it is difficult to walk from Blocker to Rudder without being clipped or nearly run over by bicyclists riding carelessly and at high speed, and urged that something be done sooner rather than later to improve pedestrian safety.
 

Adjourn
There being no further business to come before the Committee of the Whole, Speaker-Elect Stallone returned the chair back to Speaker Benedik who adjourned the meeting at 4:09 P.M.