Before another Miss Harvest Weekend Pageant can happen again in a Trent residential college, organizers will have to present plans for review to a college cabinet committee.

        Interim president David Smith and his executive group have approved this and two other recommendations, including a call for more human rights education, from college heads following a drag pageant Nov. 1 that sparked complaints and a storm of controversy on campus.

        The five college heads said college cabinets and councils should know what happened and "take steps to ensure...that college weekend organizers are sensitive to such issues." Each college, they suggested, should create an ad hoc committee of cabinet to review and give advice about -- but not censor -- student-run college activities.

        College administrators should be informed about such events and the advisory body's concerns, said college heads. The college office should exercise its right to veto inappropriate activities "only when absolutely necessary" and students' right to organize their own activities "should not be compromised," they say.

        College heads called for more education to address "negative feelings associated with the term 'human rights'." The president's group has asked the university's advisory committee on human rights for advice on educational programs.