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First-year Committee
Seeks Council Seat,
Plans Walk-in

By Tom Jenks
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Undaunted by the defeat of
their proposed constitutional
amendment change to achieve first-year
representation on the Student
Council, the First-year Committee
is once again setting out to create
legislation to make possible for a
first-year man to run for Council
after his first semester at the University.

The following motion to that
effect was made and passed in last
Monday's meeting of the First-year
Committee: "To present the By-Law
change to the Student Council
constitution that the residency requirement
for taking office on the
Student Council be lowered to one
semester."

Last December in the Student
Council elections the First-year
Committee campaigned for a constitutional
amendment which
would have created a separate office
for a first-year man on the
Council. Although the amendment
achieved a 3-1 majority, it failed to
pass, because the required sixty per
cent of the student body did not
vote in the election.

By pushing for the eligibility of
a first-year man to run in Student
Council elections instead of trying
to create a separate office, the
First-year Committee has altered its
attack on the Council; but even if
the By-Law change is passed, first-year
men will still not be assured of
representation on the Council.

Anticipating the possible failure
of the parental rules for girls in the
dorms to pass the Board of Visitors,
the First-year Committee created a
committee last Monday "to care for
the institution of a female 'walk-in'
in the First-year dorms." The purpose
of this committee will be "to
devise a plan for and organize a
protest walk-in."

Committeeman Gary Friedman,
who made the motion to create the
'walk-in committee' and who was
chosen as its chairman, described
himself as "one of the liberal members
of the Committee."

In other business the Committee
moved "to petition the Student
Council for a new councilman to
attend the First-year Committee
meetings." The Committee's complaint
is that Alan Rudlin, who was
originally chosen to serve as a liaison
between the Council and the Committee,
has "attended only one
meeting and has failed to present
the ideas of the First-year Committee
to the Council."