An Executive Committee resolution to form a special committee to investigate "reported violations of university policy" in connection with the Feb. 9 speech by Huey Newton was strongly endorsed by the University Council last night.
The resolution also asks the special committee to investigate the events leading up to the speech.
Emphasizing that the function of the committee is not judicial, the resolution goes on to charge the committee with presenting recommendations to "appropriate University committees and officers as to future policy and procedures relating to the conduct of public meetings which involve visiting speakers."
In other Council business, a Governance Committee recommendation to postpone indefinitely a Kelley Committee proposal to establish the position of ombudsman was overwhelmingly passed.
For most of the three hour meeting, however, the Council discussed the recent Priorities Committee report on the university's budget. No resolutions or motions on the report were made.
Provost Brown said cuts in the library's budget would show up "more in convenience than in what is really there."
The Executive Committee's resolution of the Newton speech, which was adopted by the committee yesterday morning, was passed as a substitute resolution in place of one by Graduate Student Council members Charles F. Kalmbach, Jr. '68 and Clifford E. Rhoades, Jr.
Their resolution earlier modified from its original recommendation that NUC be barred from using university facilities for a year, instead recommended that "any sponsoring agency be refused use of any Princeton University facility for public addresses until it agrees to obey all University regulations."
The resolution also urged that a special committee be set up to review the events leading to the speech and make recommendations for future policy.
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