With many student groups around campus voicing their discontent with Boston University Chancellor John Silber’s recent initiatives regarding the GSA and other matters, Hillel Bavli said he is looking to set up a student group he describes as being ‘pro-Silber.’

Bavli said he wants to create a student organization which will not necessarily support the Chancellor or all of his opinions, but disseminate factual information pertaining to the reasoning behind the implementation of his policies.

‘I think it has become some kind of fashion at BU to hate Silber,’ he said.

The proposed group will attempt to counteract what Bavli described as biased information about Silber’s policies produced as a ‘pure emotional reflex.’

He said the group would not be formed to push people’s opinions about Silber one way or the other.

‘If I show one side, it is because the other is already being shown,’ he said.

‘[We will provide] just facts about Silber,’ Bavli said. ‘How he has made money for the school, how he has raised the standard of the university, and how he has brought well known and respected professors to the university. These are things you can’t really disagree with.’

Silber, according to Bavli, thinks student discussion about his policies, whether in support or against them, is good for BU because it promotes intellectual curiosity.

‘He would probably prefer that students find out facts for themselves,’ Bavli said.

Bavli said he thought it was ironic in such a modern and technological society, students are content with being fed information without checking the legitimacy of the source.

Students need some sort of ‘inner monologue,’ in order to question their beliefs as well as the information they come across, he said.

‘It’s easy to say that Silber enacts these policies because he ‘hates gays,’ or ‘loves to torture students.’ That’s what the articles in the [Daily Free Press] newspaper have been saying,’ he said in reference to student editorials.

Students expressed mixed reactions to the new group.

‘I wouldn’t join the group based on what I know about Silber,’ said Jenna Quandt, a College of Communication junior. ‘I would not join this group.’

Quandt said, however, ‘There must be some good things about [Silber] and his policies.’

‘I don’t think that they are trying to offend the GSA group or anything,’ said Beth Scanlan, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, about Bavli’s proposed group.

‘They need to clarify which aspects of his opinions that they are supporting,’ Scanlan said.

David Webb, a School of Management junior, said he thought the group was a good idea.

‘Every day I pick up The [Daily] Free Press and besides Silber standing up for himself, there is no one else to show his point of view,’ he said.

Once the group materializes it will most likely set up a table at the GSU to give information on current events around campus related to Silber’s policy making, according to Bavli.

‘What’s happening at BU symbolizes a larger problem of the world,’ Bavli said, ‘People just walk down the street and eat up propaganda.’

‘There is a silent minority, and it is not as small as people think,’ he said. Bavli said he expects the group’s popularity will soar within weeks of starting.

Bavli said he hopes to meet with Silber sometime within the next month. However the meeting will not be focused on the group. Rather, Bavli said he wishes to simply get to know his chancellor better.