University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Judiciary Council The Judiciary Council replaces the Honor Councils which were abolished in 1930-31 when the Stu- dents ' Association relinquished the honor system. It constitutes the judicial branch of the student self- government; its purpose is to interpret the consti- tution and by-laws of the Students ' Association and to enforce its laws. In regard to the enforcement of laws, the juris- diction of the Judiciary Council is confined to matters governed by the Students ' Association. The Coun- cil may undertake investigations of breaches of the Student Association laws on its own motion, and It may accept for investigation charges presented to it in writing. Decisions of the Council must be submitted in writing to the Dean of Student Life for administration. For the better performance of its duties the Council keeps records of all cases and the written evidence and other papers pertaining to them, of the expendi- tures of all organizations benefiting by the blanket tax, and of all candidates for positions connected with the Students ' Assembly. Questions which have come before the Judiciary Council during its two years of functioning have had to do with eligibility for office, election returns, election expenses, voting in the Students ' Assembly, the meaning of certain election laws, the appropria- tion of Association funds, and fraud and cheating. A chairman, who must be a man, and six other members, three men and three women, all of whom Joe Pool Chairman, Juiiciary Council must be of at least junior rank, make up the Council. Members for 1932-33 are: Joe Pool, chairman; Simon Frank; DeWitt Kinard; John Walker; Hazel De- Weese; Ruth Thornton; Madge Stewart. Any mem- ber may call a meeting of the Council, but a quorum or a majority is necessary for business. The Judiciary Council has been meeting in im- provised rooms in the Main Building, but the session of 1933-34 w ill find it sitting in its own specially designed quarters in the New Student Union Build- ing. Toy row: DeWeese, Thornton, Stewart, Frank Bottom row: Kinard, Pool, Walker Pane 20

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The Gay l mtics 0 litis era the first luiidiBg to k crcctci was the Woman ' s Building, built in 1902, then came the Engineering Building in 1904 and the Law BuiUing in 1908, all of equal merit in design from an architectural point of view, iiut each rich in its own importance and traditions. The first two hear a very sligtil resemllance to tli£ Romanesque style of architecture, but the Law Building is nondescript, Tlie Press BuiUing (tJie old Power Building), also o this group, but belter in design, was built in 1910. Tde Law School begun m 1883 in tdree small darV rooms in tlie base- ment of the north wing of the old Main BuiUing. The library of 130 volumes was crowded into a small section of one of these rooms, fudge O. M. Roberts, and fudge R. S. Gould were the jfirst professors, then came fudge R. L. Batts. Judge John C. Townes, Colonel W. S. Simltins, B. D. Tarleton, and Dr. George Butte u;ere belofed members of the acuity U ' hich gradually greu until nou it numhers ten professors. The Engineering Building and the Grand Old Man are sytionomous. The Engineering Department and the Old Man u;ill soon leafe their old haunts for more commodious quarters across the Speedway. Regardless of the use to which the old building will be put, it will remain symhoUc of The University to all disciples of Alec St. Claire who have passed fromThc Unifersity to the outside world. 4 .-