Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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duties is the selection of student members for college committees subject to the approval of the President for appointment. Other projects of the Council have been to modernize the student constitution with the aid of the Student Planning Committee, and the study of the allocation of student-contributed funds. With the Student Council petforming the executive end of student government, the legislative functions are handled by the Student Planning Committee, composed of both student and faculty members in a 5-1 ratio. The SPC studies various aspects of college life, such as re- search on student attitudes on controversial questions and makes recommendations to the groups concerned. The SPC is truly an all-College committee with representatives from almost every organization on the campus. Headed this year by Chairman Jane McKee and Vice Chairman Sue Eller, the committee discussed problems which concerned all members at its numerous meetings throughout the year. Highlighting its program for the year was the fifth annual SPC conference held at Camp Wood during the summer where college issues were discussed between sessions of swimming, volleyball, and square dancing. Attendance hit an all-time high with 155 students and and faculty mem- bers attending. Leadership was provided by chairman Ted Volsky, vice- chairman Jane Colby, and secre- tary Helen Cor - telyou. The big job of the conference was the drafting of a new consti- tution for the stu- dent government. The charter, however, received a temporary setback when students defeated it at the polls in December. Other committees of the conference worked on old recommendations, student welfare, curricular and extra- curricular problems. The recommendations were published in the Col- legian, and presented to the students in an all-college assembly in the fall. Each recommendation was then referred to the proper authority for consideration. TED VOLSKY, Chairman of the fifth annual Student Planning Conference, led the legis- lative branch of student government. CHAIRMEN OF THE 1950 STUDENT PLANNING CONFERENCE AT CAMP WOOD WERE: {back row), Jane Colby, Helen Cortelyou, Ron Stinson, Don Hopkins. Don Jacobson. {front ran), Jocelyn Butcher, Ann McMillen, Jackie Christie, Ted Volsky, Lorraine Halbower Vol- sky, Monna Schaper, Sue Ann Eller, Bob Larson. .- - 27

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Student Leaders have voice in administration policy Kansas State students have an active voice in the determination of administration policy through the efforts of various student government committees, which are composed mainly of elected or appointed representatives from the student body itself. The Student Council provides the all-important link between students and faculty at Kansas State. Headed by Floyd Ricker and including on the council represen- tatives from each school, the Student Council handles much of the responsibility in dealing with student problems. The organization includes no faculty members, thereby differing from most of the governing commit- tees. Whenever problems involving both students and faculty arise, the Student Council meets with the Faculty Council on Student Affairs, a group composed of members of the faculty which deals with many of the same problems faced by the Student Council. Another important aspect of the Council ' s work is promoting better relations between college students and townspeople. As a member of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Council is in an ideal position to do this important job, and has proved invalu- able in settling questions involv- ing the city and the college. To students, however, one of the most important parts of the Council ' s work is its function of approving all student holidays, two of which are allowed per academic year. The council allowed a holiday during the first semester following Kansas State ' s basketball victory over Utah State Col- lege, and in the spring semester a day was added to the Easter vacation to celebrate the winning of the Big- Seven basketball championship. Another of the Student Council ' s more important FLOYD RICKER, President of the Student Council, headed the only governing group which is composed entirely of students. STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE: (top) Garth Grissom, corre- sponding secretary; Paul Swan, Stanley Meinen, Harvey Arand, Gerald McMasters, (bottom), Charlotte Laing, Betty Fritzler, vice president; Floyd Ricker, president; Dale Wilson, recording secretary; Mary Baertch. 26

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TEMPORARY STUDENT UNION COMMITTEE — Ron Stepanek, Marion Martin, Don Jacobson, A. R. Jones, Don Ford, Dean A. Pugsley, Dean M. Woolf. m$£ £ f All students are eligible to participate in this direct form of student government. Other committees which also are important in con- trol of student affairs are the Temporary Student Union Committee, the Academic Honesty Committee, the Social Recreational Committee, the Apportionment Board, and the New Student Union Committee. The Temporary Student Union Committee selects help for the present Student Union, plans operational policy for the project, and determines how to make best use of the present inadequate facilities. The Union was completely redecorated this summer and a reading room was added to the building. The Academic Honesty Committee has as its respon- ACADEMIC HONESTY COM- MITTEE — Back row: Jack Northam, Frank Anderson, George Rogers. Front row. Barbara Cotton, Katherine Geyer, Alley Duncan. SOCIAL RECREATION PRO- GRAM COMMITTEE — Back row: Don Ford, Willis Adams, Dale Gigstad, Dwight Gilli- land, Dick Cederberg. Front row. Phyliss Patton, Jackie Christie, Beverly Jones, Mary Ann Miller, Dwilette Blakely, Connie Weinbrenner. 28