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Council Limit

At the Monday night meeting, it
was decided to limit the size of the
Council to 35 members, only if
University enrollment was more
than 14,000 students. The proposed
constitution included a provision
to go immediately to that number
with a maximum of 47 representatives
if enrollment was more than
14,000 students.

The size of the Student Council
now is 22 members.

The proposed constitution specifies
that both the president and
vice president of the Student
Council would be popularly elected;
and it was sought to have this
changed.

Sam Robinson objected to the
popular election, saying that candidates
from a large school, such as
the College of Arts and Sciences,
would have a definite advantage in
a popular election.

Gene Angle also spoke against
having the two top officers of the
Council popularly elected, claiming
that the idea was an "offshoot of
the Student Coalition" and that it
was based on the "premise that the
student body needs a spokesman."