"In the coming year, we hope to make the first few appointments," Martin said. "It's difficult to say what the final number will be, but my guess now is that it will be in the order of a dozen or two."

The Council also spent time discussing issues surrounding the sale of lecture notes to online "knowledge center" companies, a practice explicitly banned in university policies that has become increasingly common and gained significant media attention this year.

The Council voted unanimously to strongly endorse the existing prohibition on the practice.

"There should be no doubt in the minds of students or the members of the administrative board that selling notes is absolutely unacceptable to this Faculty," said Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox, Jr. '59

The Council also discussed a second concern. Members noted that professors' copyrights were being violated by the sale and posting of the notes. According to a legal opinion submitted to the Council by the University General Counsel's office, the faculty-member owns the content of their lectures, so long as they have recorded it in some form.

The issue is not over the rights of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, but rather one affecting the rights of individual faculty-members. Still, Council members said the issue affects the interests of the university community and they hope to further address it at a later date.

In other business, the Council also devoted discussion time to ongoing issues with Project Adapt, Harvard's recently installed financial management system.