Arizona State University - Sun Devil Spark / Sahuaro Yearbook (Tempe, AZ)

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LEGISLATIVE In the years 1953-54 the bell of freedom sounded at Arizona State and the notes of the freedom song, Democracy in Student Government, became an intri- cate part of our campus existence. The melody developed into the theme of a workable constitution written by the students for the students. Of the three branches established, the legislative, ex- ecutive and the judicial, the legislative seemed to be the most active, for a com- plete new set of bills and resolutions regulating school activity had to be pre- pared and passed by the student senate. Presiding speaker of the senate Buck-y Hayes, administrative aid Dean Shof- stall, and secretary of the senate Luva Raisch pose for photographer. Smilin ' senators get ready for a long session of work on new bills and resolutions. Twenty-two

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RULES COMMITTEE Left to Right Barbara Humphrey, Steve Duke, Bucky Hayes, Kathy Roe, and Don Stocks. CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE , Marilyn Tope picking up mail at organizations box. Dorothy Shlyk and Mildred Luckie confer while Joan Bednorz answers the telephone. Left to Right - Roland Kee, Gwen Hall, Jerry Cannon, and Kathy Roe. Calendar Committee chairman Carolyn Cum- mins makes a correction on the ASC social agenda.

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BRANCH The senators themselves, having never been senators before, had to learn the proper rules of order, how to address the speaker and ask for point of order and just in general, they had to learn how to be senators. As time passed they learned and began legislating. So for the first time in our school ' s history students are their own government. Yes, the freedom bell has sounded at A.S.C. Let ' s keep humming that freedom song! WHICH ONE IS YOUR SENATOR? A back seat view of the Senate shows Bucky Hayes and Luva Raisch en- grossed by what speaker Don Stocks is saying. Meanwhile Daisy Yee, upper right, smooths her hair. Twenty-three