1.   Each year the organizers pick a faculty group on campus and solicit suggestions.

2.   Faculty groups as well as an organization of professors emeritus have tried to act as intermediaries with no success.

3.   Faculty groups at seven other campuses have asked the regents to do likewise.

4.   Student and faculty groups on all four campuses pushed for the university to state that it did not discriminate against people based on sexual orientation.

5.   The faculty group arriving next week, however, is the first and largest academic delegation of Russians to UND, Marshall said.

6.   The faculty group sent the matter to committees.