Two student members of the Committee of Fifteen have prepared an amendment to the recommendations of the Fainsod Committee which, if approved, would allow students in the Houses to elect directly the Harvard student members of two proposed student-Faculty committees.

Kinby C. Wilcox '70 and Richard W. Hausler '72 will ask the Faculty at its meeting tomorrow-if the Faculty finishes its scheduled debate on the election of the Faculty Council-to approve the election of students to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, and to the Committee on Undergraduate Education.

John T. Edsall '23, professor of Biological Chemistry, will introduce the amendment for Wilcox and Hausler.

The Committee on the Organization of the Faculty-which was headed by Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor-proposed last month that the dean of the Faculty appoint student members to the new committees upon the recommendation of the Harvard Undergraduate Council and the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee respectively.

Fainsod said last night, however, that his was a "temporary proposal," and that he and his committee "would certainly not oppose" the Edsall amendment.

The Fainsod Committee proposed that the five Harvard students to be members of a third student-Faculty committee-The Committee on Students and Community Relations-be elected "on a rotating" basis from the undergraduate Houses.

Wilcox and Hausler recommend broadening the principle of "rotating election" to the selection of the members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the direct election of one student in each House and in the freshman class to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life.

"It's starting off on the wrong foot to appoint these people," Hausler said last night. "Under the Fainsod system, the representative is not accountable to a constituency but to a central body." Elected committees, he added, would be "more legitimate."

If the Faculty adopts the Edsall amendment, the relevant paragraphs of the legislation creating the new student-Faculty committees will read:

"The Committee (on Houses and Undergraduate Life) will be composedof the present members of the Committee on Houses, and student members, one each to be elected from the several Houses and the freshman class and appointed by the dean of the Faculty;

"The Committee (on Undergraduate Education) will be composed of five Faculty members named by the dean of the Faculty from the membership of the Faculty Council, and five elected student members, three from the Harvard Houses, one from the freshman class, and one from Radeliffe;

"The three students elected from the Houses to the Committee on Undergraduate Education, together with the five representatives from the Harvard Houses to the Committee on Students and Community Relations, will be elected one from each House on a rotating basis, and appointed by the dean of the Faculty."

'Perfunctory'

Hausler said last night that the dean's "appointment" of committee members after their election would be "perfunctory." and that the provision was necessary because the proposed committees are, technically. Faculty committees.

Under the system of "rotating" election, some Houses would elect members to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, and some would name members to the Committee on Students and Community Affairs.

Eventually. Hausler said, the election of student members to the disciplinary group that will succeed the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities "could be worked into this scheme, because the CRR is a student-Faculty committee and analogous to these other committees,"