Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Betty Ann Southwick COLLEGE GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION McInnis, Hamilton, Knickerbocker, Fanshier, Ripley, Southwick, Secrist, Voss, Winchell, Lewis, Russell, Turpin, Beck, Miller, Godfrey, Carpenter, Dodaro. 15

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COLLEGE GOVERNMENT The College Government Association gives to every Rockford College student a chance to participate representatively in deciding the policies of the government under which she lives while in college. Members of the faculty and officers of the administration are also members of the Association. Under their guidance the students have an invaluable opportunity to develop a sense of governmental organization and responsibility which closely approximates their duties as American citizens. The Association is headed by an executive group, the Board of the College Government Association, whose duty it is to discuss problems of the student body and to make recommendations to the administration, faculty, college organizations and to the Association. Since college activities are so closely interrelated, it is generally true that every person in the student body, the faculty and every organization in the college has at least one representative among the Board members who include the officers of the C. G. A., the faculty representative, presidents of all the classes, of Tolo, Y. W. C. A., Dramatic Club, W. A. A. , Forum, and of the town students and house students. With the adoption of a new constitution in March 194f, student government superseded college government. The Student Government Association consisting only of students is headed by a board consisting of officers of the S.G.A., presidents of the four classes, and house and town student presidents. The editor of Purple Parrot is a non-voting member. Under the new constitution, all clubs and other organizations are represented in the Council of Organizations.

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Ann Ripley v JUDICIAL COUNCIL A self-governing community under the Honor System becomes a workable reality at Rockford College under the intelligent guidance of the Judicial Council. This is a committee whose responsibility it is to consider cases of non-conformity to college regulations and to suggest to the administration measures for treating such cases. It is this group that introduces incoming freshmen to the honor system at Rockford College, a system by which each student is bound in responsibility to the group for her behavior. A maximum of cooperation on the part of students in upholding this tradition has resulted in a minimum of restraining regulations, and privilege of many liberties, particularly in the use of the library and the laboratories. Under the new constitution Judicial Council becomes Judicial Commission, consist- ing of a president, house president, and representatives from the three lower classes. Sanem, Secrist, Turner, Ripley