The proposed Committee on Graduate Education may dissolve before ever meeting if the Graduate Student Association (GSA) Council decides tonight not to nominate students for the vacancies on the committee.

Only one graduate student has agreed to run for one of the five spots on the committee, and GSA president Kenneth W. Allen, a third-year grad student, said yesterday that it seems unlikely that the GSA Council will decide to nominate students for the other four vacancies.

Dean Dunlop has requested the GSA Council to nominate students for the vacancies. Under the authority voted him by the Faculty, Dunlop has said, he will automatically appoint the nominees to the committee.

"The general temper of the Council is against simple acquiescence with Dunlop's request. The fact is that we just do not understand the committee's function well enough to explain it to students considering running," Allen said.

The committee, proposed by the Fainsod Committee and approved by the Faculty last Fall, was formed to formulate educational policies in the entire Graduate School. Student elections were scheduled for last week.

Allen said yesterday that "the results of the filing of the nomination petitions reflect widespread apathy on the part of the students.

"In such a case filling the vacancies with our suggestions would manufacture the appearance of interest where it obviously does not exist," he said.