Two university committees met yesterday to discuss the calendar, with still no consensus being reached among the faculty, staff and students involved.

"They could not decide what the best change would be," said Faculty Senate Chair John Nichols.

"Therefore, no formal proposal was made, nothing got resolved," Nichols added.

The Undergraduate Education Committee and the University Planning Committee held meetings to discuss the Joint Committee to Review the University Calendar's recommendation, which consolidates fall break and Thanksgiving into one week.

The Undergraduate Student Government Academic Assembly's resolution, which supports keeping fall break in its current place, was also considered.

D. Josh Troxell, assembly senator for the Division of Undergraduate Studies and a member of the calendar committee, attended the Undergraduate Education Committee meeting.

Troxell explained that the group went point by point through the committee's recommendations, which included reducing the number of instructional days from 75 to 72, and having one less day for final assessment.

However, it was the fate of the fall break that sparked the most discussion.

Troxell added that despite the assumption that the majority of faculty members were opposed to the current calendar, some professors spoke up at the meeting not only in favor of the current calender, but also encouraged committee members to listen to student opinion.

Troxell said that this decision was an accomplishment for assembly, since the group was also against combining fall break and Thanksgiving.

"So many people feel that students aren't listened to," said Academic Assembly President Paul Ricciardi. "But assembly put a lot of effort into the resolution and this just proves that we do have influence."

Although the calendar issue was not presented to the Faculty Senate during yesterday's meeting, University President Graham Spanier said that he hopes a decision is reached sometime soon.

"I don't know what the right thing is," he said during his address to the Faculty Senate.

"This is a complicated issue, there are many different perspectives."

The two committees will meet again on the morning of Jan. 28, before the Faculty Senate meeting.

Once they reach a final recommendation, it will be presented to the Faculty Senate.

Spanier will then make the final decision.