Word: amends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council voted 51-14 with one abstention last week to amend its constitution so that the president and vice president are chosen through College-wide popular elections. The secretary and treasurer will still be elected by the council...
...Council voted, 51-14, with one abstention, to amend its constitution to read: "The executive officers shall be a President and a Vice-President who shall be elected by the student body; and a Secretary and Treasurer who shall be elected by the Council...
Hopefully, neither of these arguments will persuade more than a quarter of the council. But, unfortunately, they might. If popular elections fail tomorrow night, then students will have the opportunity to amend the constitution via a referendum next week. Yet, if the council fails to approve popular elections tomorrow night and if students do not successfully amend our rules, I will sadly announce my resignation as president. I do not want to pretend that I, or the council that I lead, have some sort of mandate to do anything anymore...
Christopher R. McFadden '97, who is a Crimson editor, moved to amend the resolution so that a cap of $200 would be placed on campaign spending in a popular election...
...midst of this furor, the Penn faculty executive committee has called for tougher rules against faculty-student romances; it wants to amend the policy that calls such relationships "unethical" so that it would prohibit professors from dating students under their supervision. For her part, Topol doubts this will do any good. "I can't imagine how any student would come forward after seeing what Penn has done to me," she says. "Penn's response has done nothing but make the wounds deeper and more painful...