Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indifference to Council...
...constitution increases this danger, Bender says. He adds that "the Council suffers at present from a considerable degree of indifference, misunderstanding or even open hostility from the student body, so that it does not command all the respect it should have. The policy of the CRIMSON has not been helpful in this respect...
Robert C. Fisher '51 yesterday issued his "last statement of any kind" regarding his removal two weeks ago as an NSA delegate and an ex officio member of the Student Council...
...document, written in answer to the Council's detailed statement on the charges against him, contains "a refutation of the two most important charges, a refutation of the four least important charges," a listing of 89 minor points with which he "finds himself at variance," a claim that the entire Council action was illegal, and a final summing...
Fisher cited four points in his claim that the Council had no legal right to impeach him: 1) that Council President William D. Weeks '49 had no right to vote; 2) that he was tried under the rules for a regular Council member, although the provision in the Council constitution making him an ex officio member was unconstitutional; 3) "the proceedings of the Council were against Robert's Rules of Order under which the Council has always operated; and 4) there are no listings of a 'delegate's duties' in the Constitution...