 The dispute centred on a controversially worded section of the "University of Waterloo Act, 1959", in which the College interpreted certain sections as a guarantee it would become the Faculty of Art for the new university.This was something the Associated Faculties was not prepared to accept.As a result of the controversy, Waterloo College's entire Department of Mathematics broke from the College to join the newly established University of Waterloo, later joined by professors from the Economic, German, Modern Languages, and Russian departments.