One-Third of West Virginia U.'s Faculty Meets, Reaffirming Calls for President's Ouster

A gathering of more than one-third of all full-time faculty members at West Virginia University voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to call on their institution's president, Michael S. Garrison, to resign over his involvement in the awarding of an unearned executive M.B.A. degree to the daughter of the state's governor.

The motion calling for Mr. Garrison's resignation, which is nonbinding, was passed by 565 faculty members. Thirty-nine faculty members voted against the motion, and

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