Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designed to meet past criticisms of the system of upper class elections, a reform in the method of nomination by petition was announced last night by the Student, Council. At the same time, it set up a new committee for the selection of candidates for the Student Council...
...reform will apply to Senior Elections, Junior Album Elections, and Student Council Elections. For the Council it will not become final, according to its constitution, until after a 30-day period during which the amendment will be publicly posted...
Nominations for election to the Student Council will henceforth be made by a committee consisting of eight Seniors on the Council, five Juniors not on the Council, and four Sophomores. In the past the Student Council itself selected the candidates...
Last year a self-constituted Committee for Electoral Reform, backed by 127 signatures from the class of 1938, presented a number of demands to the Student Council. The Committee's platform stated that the later announcement of nominees by petition made them appear to be "self-seekers...
...another way of saying that it has never become an issue of really fundamental importance. Nevertheless, every now and then in the past a group of would-be politicos has aroused so much interest in the subject that certain fundamental weaknesses have come to light. And now the Student Council, sitting in judgement on itself, has decided that its procedure in the past has been in general correct, but that in certain important details it could be improved. So far as it goes, the report is constructive and valuable...