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...editorial notes "the absolute weight of the majority" vote, condemning the past inadequacy of the Council's contact with the student body. Unfortunately the Crimson has not yet published the contents of the draft provisions already drawn up by the Constitutional Committee. Those provisions deal with publicity, audits, office hours, availability of Council members, open hearings or meetings, reports and financial statements. Although this material has been presented and outlined to the Crimson on two occasions, it has been neglected...
Meeting in Emerson Hall, 150 members of the chapter argued the motion for half an hour, following its presentation by the Veterans Affairs Committee which was evenly split on this phase of policy. The final vote was heavily in favor of the plan, which at this time would call for a general raise in veterans' allowances...
...alternatives to be presented at House meetings will be 1) the council shall be completely elective, though non-council members may be committee chairmen, or 2) the Council may by a two thirds vote appoint undergraduates to membership, providing such appointments shall not exceed five or some other figure yet to be stipulated...
With members of the Council Constitution Committee still engulfed in controversy over the actual elected-appointed ratio of Council makeup, the question will be left to a straw vote of the student body immediately after Thanks-giving...
...index of student opinion appear for the Council Constitutional Committee in the results of the poll. Almost unanimously, the present hit-or-miss method of Council contact with the student body at large was condemned as being inadequate, while the "grievance committee" idea received nearly as large an affirmative vote. If the Council has not previously considered this tenuousness of contact as a major problem, it would probably do well to reflect on the absolute weight of the majority...