Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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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

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING A NOTHER war time class of engineers L has left its undergraduate days at Carnegie Tech behind. Their daily fare consisted of long hours in classes and laboratories, careful attention to instructions, intelligent discussion of important problems, long hours of study, and occasional social activities. These are the men who will shoulder the responsibility in the world of tomorrow. Some of them will be leaders and organizers of industry, others will control the problems of a technical civilization, and still others will be key men in our country's armed forces. What new trails this crew of young adventurers will blaze no one can rightly predict. Certain it is, however, that in the mechanized world of the future, engineers will play an increasingly important role. In addition