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Day Off To Vote
Asked By Council

By Tom Adams
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Alan Rudlin presented a motion
to the Student Council last Tuesday
night asking the administration to
cancel all classes for Tuesday,
November 5, election day.

Mr. Rudlin presented his motion
because he thought students ought
to have time to go home and vote,
as many of them did not have the
time to go through the procedures
for filling out absentee ballots, he
said. He also said that students who
are doing campaign work for the
various candidates ought to have
the day off to act as poll-watchers
and to perform other functions for
their candidates.

The motion was passed
unanimously.

Coeducation Report

A second motion presented by
Mr. Rudlin also passed
unanimously. It asked that the
report of President Shannon's
Committee on Coeducation be
submitted to the Student Council
"on or before November 11" so
that the Council could make some
recommendations of its own before
the report goes to the Board of
Visitors.

Mr. Rudlin pointed out that
there were no students on the
Committee, which was chaired by
T. Braxton Woody, chairman of the
French Department.

Ron Hickman presented two
proposals that, if approved by the
administration, would give control
over the allocation of student funds
to the Student Council.

Changing SAC

His first proposal reads, "The
composition of the Student
Activities Committee will consist of
its present five faculty and
administrative representatives with
the Dean of Student Affairs sitting
as chairman in a non-voting
capacity, except in the case of a tie.

"The Student representation on
the committee will consist of the
presidents of the Raven Society,
Omicron Delta Kappa and the
Student Council, as now provided
for. To this, the Committee shall
add the Vice-President and
Secretary of the Student Council,
making the Student Activities
Committee a 5-5 committee with
an administrator sitting as
non-voting chairman, except in
cases of ties.

O & P Vice-Chairman

"The Organizations and
Publications Committee of the
Student Council shall elect a
Vice-chairman to argue that
Committee's and the Council's
position before the Student
Activities Committee."

Mr. Hickman's second motion
was a lengthy and detailed listing of
the procedure that would be used
by the Student Council to allocate
funds, should they get that power.

Early Application

The procedure requires all
recognized groups that desire funds
to have their requests in by the first
of April for funds for the following
school year.

The organization's request for
funds will be considered by the
Organizations and Publications
Committee of the Student Council
and then the entire Council will
vote on the request for funds. A
two-thirds vote of the Council will
be required to constitute an official
allocation of funds.

Under Mr. Hickman's plan, the
Student Activities Committee,
which now does the actual
allocating of funds, will serve only
as an appellate body for groups
dissatisfied with the Council's
allocation.

A two-thirds vote of the SAC
will overrule the Council's
allocation. Mr. Hickman thought
that his proposal, which the
Student Council endorsed
unanimously at the Tuesday night
meeting, could be implemented
without the approval of the Board
of Visitors. He said that the
Student Activities Committee could
delegate the authority to allocate
funds to the Council.

He said he based this decision
on talks with various
administrators. Mr. Hickman said
yesterday that both parts of his
proposal would have to be
implemented for the new system to
be effective.

In other business last Tuesday.
Jim Rocbuck presented a motion
asking that a motion by George
McMillan, passed at the previous
Council meeting, concerning the
use of the two parking lots on
Emmett Street, opposite the
Observatory Hill dormitories, be
rescinded.

Equal Competition

Mr. McMillan's motion required
the lot to be emptied of cars late at
night for a one-month period to
allow commuters and the
dormitory residents "equal
competition" for the parking places
in the morning. The plan was to be
run on a trial basis for a one-month
period, during which the Traffic
Control Committee would study
the effects of the experiment.

Paul Hopkins, a law student and
councilor in the Monroe Hill
Dormitories, presented a petition
signed by 191 residents of the
Monroe Hill Dormitories asking for
the repeal of Mr. McMillan's motion.

The motion by Mr. Roebuck, to
rescind the one-month trial and
instead have a committee look into
the matter of parking on the
Grounds, failed to get the necessary
two-thirds vote. However, a motion
to reconsider did gain the simple
majority needed and Mr. McMillan's
plan will not go into effect.