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Court Of Appeals

In no case, no matter how
serious, can the Judicial Committee
itself suspend a student.

A check and balance has been
included in the new system in that
the Executive Committee will act as
a court of appeals for all decisions
made by the Judicial Committee.

Under this new system of
self-government for first-year men,
counselors along with all the
residents of the first year dormitories
will be responsible for enforcing
the rules.

At the beginning of each academic
year the counselor will
mainly be the ones who will
enforce the rules, but as the year
progresses every first-year man will
have to assume greater responsibility
for his and his fellows'
conduct.

Both the Residence Council
constitution and the Judicial Committee
constitution were presented
to Student Council last Tuesday as
new business, at which time they
were tabled for a week. They will
automatically be brought up again
at the Council's next meeting.

If approved by the
Council, they will then need be
approved by Chester Titus, Director
of Housing, the Executive Committee
of Counselors, and the
President of the University, Edgar
F. Shannon.

A copy of the constitutions have
been presented to Mr. Titus, and a
group will meet with him today to
receive his reactions to and hopefully
his approval of the constitutions,
a spokesman for the new
system told The Cavalier Daily
yesterday.

Since the new system will
supplant the First-Year Committee,
the constitutions will have to be
presented to the first-year class as a
whole in the form of a referendum,
in which a majority of three-fifths
of the first year class must approve
the constitutions. The referendum
should be held either immediately
before or after Spring Break.

For the remainder of this year,
the First-Year Committee will act
as the Residence Council and will
elect the person to serve on the
Judicial Committee; however next
year the Committee will be entirely
abolished in its present form.