A list of recommendations by a Government of the Student Body special committee on the Catt Hall controversy have been dormant for almost a year, but now two of those suggestions finally will be implemented.

A resolution to establish a committee to put closure to issues raised by the 1998 Catt Hall Review Committee coasted to quick approval at the GSB meeting Wednesday night.

The GSB Catt Hall Review Committee was established to “review the controversy over the name of Catt Hall and to make recommendations of specific action items that will help bring about closure of the issue,” according to the committee’s final report.

The report was presented to the senate in November 1998. It included a detailed list of recommendations which, until now, have not seen action. The resolution calls for two of the 10 recommendations to be endorsed by GSB.

“The reason I chose those two is that all the others can be tucked away,” said Wendell Mosby, FCS, author of the resolution. “These changes will mark the significance and put [The September 29th Movement’s] place in history on this campus.”

Jane Cox, associate professor of performing arts, served on the committee because of her research on Carrie Chapman Catt’s life.

“These recommendations are more symbolic in nature,” Cox said. She said she would have rather seen more educational or outreach recommendations addressed.

One recommendation concerns the bricks in the Plaza of Heroines outside Catt Hall. A few individuals chose to have bricks bearing their names removed from the plaza four years ago.

The voids left by the removed bricks were filled with generic bricks, but the recommendation calls for replacing them with black granite bricks or another quality substitute.

In addition, an official letter from the university would be sent to those individuals, inviting them to give personal statements about the people who are honored in the plaza, as well as statements concerning their decisions to remove the bricks, according to the resolution.

The letter also would include an apology for any misunderstandings and express assurance that any member of the university community has the right to petition and seek redress.

The second recommendation will place a plaque at Catt Hall, featuring a quote from Alice Walker’s “Anything We Love Can Be Saved.”

The quote reads: “… it is the awareness of having faults, I think, and the knowledge that this links us to everyone on Earth, that opens us to courage and compassion.”

The next step toward action on these recommendations is gaining approval from the administration, Mosby said.