Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE STUDENT COUNCIL A. J. Murphy Assistant Dean oj Jlen THE Carnegie Student Council is the governing body representative ot all three colleges. It is composed of twenty voting members and nine non-voting members whose duty it is to formulate policies, inaugurate and perpetuate traditions, and supervise the activities of other campus organizations. Regular meetings, held Tuesday evening, are open at all times in order that any student may express his views openly to Council. The minutes are published in full in the Tartan each week so that the student body may be informed of the activities of Council. The officers include a president, a vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer, three assistant secretaries and three assistant treasurers. The Budget Chairman, now also in charge of appropriations, examines budgets submitted by each organization and recommends that they be either approved or rejected bv Council. Each year the detailed annual budget of Student

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ADMINISTRATION Director oj Dteuton of Humanistic and Social Studies....................WiLLARD I lOTCUKlSS Director of Division oj Student Personnel and Welfare. Dean oj Students............ Beryl Warden Director of Metals Research I at bora torg... . II. 11. Lowry Controller................................II. R. Patton Chairman of Division of Physical Welfare........................CLAKKNCK ( VKRKND Manager of Bureau oj Sews and Publications....................Max K. I [annum Charles Watkins Director. Margaret Morrison Carnegie College 21 Webster N. Jones Director. College of Engineering

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Council is recommended to the Executive Board, and Council is responsible for the administration of expenditures under the approved budget. The Social Chairman draws up the calendar of social events, and petitions to hold all-school dances and to use Thistle I fall must be submitted to him. The editorial and advertising policies of all publications are determined by the Publications Committee. The chairman of this group recommends to Student Council the staffs of each publication. The Points and Keys Chairman is in charge of selecting the men for the Scimitar and Delta Skull by the point system, and he also checks and approves lists of students eligible for keys. I he Chairman of Elections conducts all elections held and appoints members of Council to work at the various polls in the three colleges. This year, Student Council, as the first war time Council, was confronted by new and unusual problems, but it met these successfully under the direction of capable ami hard-working officers and with the help of the Council Adviser, Assistant Dean A. J. Murphy, Jr. To meet the new situation the Constitution was revised for the first time since 1934, and confusing statements were clarified and important changes were made in it. Council adopted the Proportional Representation method of election, under which system one voting member on Council is provided for every hundred undergraduate students enrolled in each of the three colleges. Two-thirds of the voting members are elected at large from the Senior Class, and the remaining number is chosen in the same way from the Junior Class. This change in the Constitution necessitated a revision of the Student Council By-laws, which describe in detail the manner in which elections are to be held. It is hoped that Proportional Representation will prove to be a more satisfactory method of election and that it will secure fairer representation than have previous systems. Interest in the activities of Council has been unusually high this year, and meetings were well attended by members of the student body. Long and heated discussions frequently took place, but important matters were settled to the satisfaction ol all. Student Council, as the connecting link between the faculty and the student body, has done a great deal to bring about a better understanding between the faculty and the students. Ijt Beall, Spitaleri. Oarlock, Van Arwiell, Orr, McDonald, Carver, Fitzgerald. 2nd w: Curry. Moir, Thompson, McKee, Landcrman, Bruor, Keiaachcr. Shew its, Beatty, Boyce, Skcchan, Whitrtide, ZonfC, Slier. Mun.vcr. 23