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Election Regulations

Student Council's Elections
Committee will conduct
elections for officers in the
College, and in the
Architecture, Graduate,
Commerce, Education,
Graduate Business, and Medical
Schools, March 20 and 21.

Candidates for offices in
these schools must submit a
petition signed by a specific
number of students in their
school and post a $10
campaign bond.

Deadline for filing petitions
for candidates' names to be
placed on the ballots is 4 p.m.
Friday, March 9, at which time
the committee will hold a
mandatory meeting for all
candidates at council offices,
4th floor, Newcomb Hall.

Candidates may not begin
campaigning until they have
filed petitions, posted the $10
bond, attended the meeting
and signed a statement that
they have read the election
rules and will comply with
them.

Any student with questions
concerning elections is advised to
call committee co-chairmen
Paul Freeman or James
Wallace, 924–3454, rather
than risk possible
disqualification from
unknowingly committing an
infraction.

Amissah To Speak

Prof. Austin N. E. Amissah
of the Ghana University Law
School will speak in the
student lounge of the Law
School today at 3 p.m. on
"The Role of Law in
Developing Nations: The
Ghana Experience."

Mr. Amissah is presently a
Woodrow Wilson Scholar at the
Smithsonian Institute while on
leave from his position as Dean
of the Ghana Law School.

A graduate of Oxford
University, Mr. Amissah is a
former Associate Justice on the
Supreme Court of Ghana. He is
also a former Attorney General
of Ghana.