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...surprise motion by Henry M. Silveira '51, president of the Student Council, to hold elections for now council officers tonight instead of Monday, as originally planned, met with only partial success last night when, after a brief but heated argument, the council compromised, and decided to hold elections on Thursday...
...Silveira's move, designed, he claimed, to avoid politicking before the vote next week, was immediately followed by a motion by Gordon M. Morrison, Jr. '52 to hold elections immediately--that is, at last night's meeting--and thus avoid any campaigning whatsoever...
...Silveira, in making his motion, recalled the intensive campaigning which took place two years ago and which, he said, caused a serious schism in the council for the entire year...
...Henry M. Silveira '51, president of the council, and Richard M. Sandler '52, chairman of the revising committee, released the following statement last night...
...Henry M. Silveira '51, president of the present Student Council agrees with the 1947 minority. "If the council is entirely elective," he insists, "we don't get all the best people." The new constitution, which obligates the group to appoint from four to six members, reflects a slight swing away from the predominant 1947 point of view. It enables the council to add to its ranks men who will be free from politics and who, though worthy, may have failed to win in elections...