"Since graduate students play such a major role in tutorials, it only seems fair that they should be part of the committees," he added.
The Faculty did not respond to his recommendation.
Alan E. Heimert, Cabot Professor of American Literature, supported the legislation and called tutorials "a glorious opportunity."
He added that he hoped the legislation would especially encourage professors to teach sophomore and junior tutorials, the two areas where professors are least involved in now. He added he finds advising senior theses "generally boring."
Several Faculty members had prepared speeches in advance for the South Africa debate. Mendelsohn had also arranged for Donald Woods, Nieman Fellow and exiled South African journalist, to speak before the Faculty.
Dean Rosovsky proposed that the Faculty devote a full meeting to the debate on South African investments later this spring but no date was set