Students,
Changes to the Student Senate Constitution have been proposed by the Full Senate as described in this post. These changes will be voted on by students during the Co-President elections which will take place later this month early March. These changes include:
- Non-voting executives/committee chairs will be appointed at the end of the academic year preceding their term rather than at the first Full Senate meeting.
- Students in the College-owned houses will now be constituents of Student Senate off-campus representatives. The ILS representative position will be removed, and students residing in the Swedish House will be constituents of the Carlson International Center Senator.
- Clarification of student “class.”
- Student Senate may fix grammatical/spelling errors in the Constitution without requiring a vote from the student body (with unanimous vote during a Full Senate meeting.)
- The Student Senate administrative director will receive a stipend for his/her work.
Actual text that will be changed:
C, Article III – Composition, Line 4 – Non-Voting Executives, add: “These positions will assume their seats at the end of the academic year preceding their term. Vacancies of these positions must absolutely be filled in a timely manner.”
C, Article I – Definitions, Line 8, Strike all current text and insert “College Owned Houses: These houses will be the constituents of the Off Campus Representatives. These houses include, but are not limited to: the Lundgren House, the Johnson House, the Peterson House, the Ten-O-Nine House, the Adolphson House, the Walker House, and others.”
C, Strike, Article III – Composition, Line 8 – Hall Senators, Strike: ILS Senator
C, Insert, Line 11 – Swedish House Representation – The Swedish House will be constituents of the Carlson International Center Senator.
C, Article I – Definitions, add Line 13: “Class: The class of each student for the purpose of the Senate will be class-in-residency. Any student beyond their fourth year will therefore not have a Class representative, but may be represented by a Hall representative or International representative as appropriate.”
C, Article III – Composition, Line 5 – Chairs, Add: “These positions will assume their seats at the end of the academic year preceding their term. Vacancies of these positions must absolutely be filled in a timely manner.”
C, Article VIII – Amendments to the Constitution, add Line 5: “The Senate may make spelling, grammatical, or formatting corrections to the Constitution or By-Laws in one meeting by first a unanimous vote recognizing it as a spelling, grammatical, or formatting change, as well as a two-thirds vote of the body in favor of the change.”
C, Article X – Stipends, Line 2, Insert: “Administrative Director,” before “and Technologies Director” *Considered by Senate of Spring 2009