Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four out of five amendments to the constitution of the Student Council were voted by overwhelming majorities in yesterday's student referendum. Only a small Dudley vote remained to make the results official...
...overall effect of the passage of three of the four amendments is to increase the total membership of the Council from 17 to 28 members...
...fourth amendment passed calls for automatic expulsion from the Council of members missing more than five meetings. David M. Perlmutter '59, Secretary of the Council, stressed that this provision is designed to compel attendance at meetings, not to get rid of Council undesirables...
Perlmutter further emphasized that the Council will now be more representative of the student body. Roger C. Algase '59, President of the Harvard Liberal Union, noted, however, that eight of the 11 new members were not elected but appointed...
Urging that he was speaking for him self and not the Liberal Union, Algase emphasized that the amendments in fact reduced the student representation in the Council. It was partially for this reason, he stated, that he had signed a petition for the Council's abolition at Dudley House yesterday noon...