The Faculty Senate Tuesday appointed one of its members to the Student Senate’s Tuition and Fee Review Committee at the request of the student body president and speaker of the student senate.

Hugh O’Hara and Joe Robbins asked the Faculty Senate to make its appointment as soon as possible because, in accordance with the Student Senate’s bylaws, a faculty member must serve on the committee responsible for making fee increase recommendations. Neither a faculty member nor a staff representative had been appointed to the committee when it voted on fee appropriations last Thursday.

“What the paper kindly pointed out to us is we were in violation of our own bylaws,” O’Hara said, referring to an article in Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News.

The student body president emphasized that the committee is on a tight schedule. Senate will discuss the increases at tonight’s meeting and the committee will re-examine the increases based on their concerns before the senate votes. The senate then makes its recommendations to interim President Lou Hencken and Shirley Stewart, interim vice president for student affairs.

“We really have to have these numbers pushed through by next week more or less,” O’Hara said.

Robbins said the committee, including newly appointed faculty representative Doug Brandt, a physics professor, will meet Thursday night.

O’Hara and Robbins weren’t the Faculty Senate’s only visitors. Rebecca Throneberg, associate communication disorders and sciences professor, attended Tuesday’s meeting, representing the Commencement Committee.

The committee has been considering increasing both the fall and spring commencement activities to four ceremonies. Currently there are two ceremonies in the fall and three in the spring. Throneberg said that with four ceremonies, each college could have a separate ceremony and the graduate students would be divided based on their areas of study. The committee has proposed having one ceremony on Friday and the other three Saturday. Some senate members expressed concern that parents might not be able to leave work in time to attend a Friday evening ceremony.

The senate also devoted a large portion of the discussion time to the issues of exceptionality and summer graduation.

Senate Chair Bud Fischer, biological sciences professor, said many of his students who complete their degrees over the summer by participating in internships aren’t willing to return to school for a graduation ceremony in the summer or fall.

Currently, students with fewer than six hours of course work remaining can participate in spring commencement. Fischer said many of the internships his students participate in count for 12 course hours. He said many parents call him to complain that their children cannot graduate in the fall.

Senate member Bailey Young, history professor, said a “flexible” policy should be adopted, so students can be allowed to walk through commencement in special cases. He said the university should avoid “legalistic” thinking and embrace the opportunity to make students happy before they leave.

In other business, senate member John Best, psychology professor, updated the senate on what was discussed at the Fall Forum, and Fischer canceled next week’s meeting. The senate will not meet again until Nov. 27, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving Break.