President Donald Gerth?s decision to end daytime Monday-Wednesday classes next fall met with resounding controversy from students and faculty. Finally, more than a month of tireless debate among Associated Students, Inc. and the Faculty Senate has produced results ? well, sort of.

The unilateral decision by Gerth will take away vital flexibility for working students. We hope he will adopt the best of what the ASI and the Senate resolutions have offered. The Senate passed a resolution on Nov. 13 that would save Monday-Wednesday classes, provided that each college schedule at least 30 percent of three unit lecture lecture classes outside of the “primetime” hours between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. A permanent committee would be set up to monitor the scheduling procedure and recommend future changes. The State Hornet believes this is the compromise that Gerth should adopt.

After exhaustive research, ASI sent a resolution to Gerth that contained an alternative similar to the Senate?s, as well as two other seemingly contradictory plans. The first recommendation calls on the University to “offer General Education and Core Courses within the major outside of peak scheduling periods.” The other calls on Gerth to delay his decision indefinitely until adequate research can be done. This is a viable option, considering the hasty research by Gerth and his exclusive, hand picked, fact finding committee. The final suggestion in the ASI resolution inexplicably calls for Gerth to adopt his original policy. Including such an easy out for Gerth undermines two potentially productive possibilities and allows for a genuinely bad policy that does not take into account flexibility for working students or the impact on Tuesday-Thursday classes.

Whatever the case, ASI and the Faculty Senate have done the research that administration should have done months ago. We urge Gerth to listen to all of the proposals, and ultimately reverse the original decision to do away with Monday-Wednesday classes. Students and faculty will be watching.