The project is now being managed by a coalition of nine members who represent a cross-section of opinions about the concert hall.

Ideally, to get a cross-section of opinions, judges are monitored at least once by each volunteer and are observed 15 to 30 times.

This presents difficulties of balance, in that the selection used ought to be, from the point of view of journalistic standards, a fair cross-section of opinions.

Close to half-a-million listeners tune in every Sunday afternoon to hear a lively exchange of ideas between callers and invited guests, and a broad cross-section of opinion on the topic of the day.

Professor Sommers suggested that course proposals be neutral on political and moral character; that speakers representing a cross-section of opinion be invited to campus, and that a faculty committee be created to define diversity and pluralism and their effect on the curriculum.