∂28-Sep-77  0518	RDR   via AMET	undergrad CS major  
Have you heard any repeatable murmurings within the CS department?
Did they realize they got the petition?  Is anything
happening?  In particular, has anyone, or everyone, said that
Stanford CSD is too research oriented to stoop to those
low level undergrads and dismissed thier interest as "vocational?"

	I have heard nothing about the petition.  Too many people
are away during the summer, and no department meetings to be held.
The most effective thing would be for some interested students to
meet with the department chairman.  I never heard anyone mention
the idea of an undergraduate major would be vocational.  On the other
hand the department is very research oriented.  The most common
point made is that the department would need more faculty to offer
an undergraduate major, and part of any proposal to the university to offer
such a major would be a request for the necessary faculty positions.
Researchers always welcome new positions, because it allows new fields
to be covered.  However, organizing an undergraduate major will be
a lot of work, and I am not volunteering, even though I am convinced
of its desirability.  My guess is that if requests for such a major
get to the top of the departmental agenda, and stay there for a while,
the major will happen if the university can be persuaded to allocate
the resources.