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ORGANIZATIONS
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Executive Committee, left to right; seated. Link. Vice President; Williams Rust, Secretary; standing. Wilson, Woods, Freyer, Borders, Rothpletz. President ; THE ORDER OF GOWNSMAN The Order of Gownsmen is the governing body of the students and by its constitution undertakes to preserve the ideals of Sewanee. The gown is conferred on seniors with a 2.00 average and on juniors with a 2.25 average for the previous semester. Sophomores with a 3.00 over-all average are also awarded the gown. Students in the School of Theol- ogy are entitled to wear the gown hut do not vote. Dean Welili announces to the Order the new membership quali- fications and revised party weekend roles. The official functions of the Order of Gownsmen are car- ried out through its several committees following action by the Order sitting as a body. Its functions lie in the charter- ing of new student organizations, conducting official busi- ness between the administration of the University and the students, attending to problems of student discipline, pub- lishing annually the students ' handbook, and in supervising the sale of class rings. The principal committees of the Order are the Executive Committee, the Discipline Committee, and the Ring Committee. The Executive Committee is made up of the president, vice-president, and the secretary of the Order, all of whom hold office for a complete year, and one gownsman representative from each fraternity and one from the Independents. Its duties include the scheduling of meet- ings of the Gownsmen and conducting the business of the Order. The Discipline Committee also has one representa- tive from each fraternity and one from the Independents. It usually meets once a week to assess penalties against stu- dents who have disobeyed the rules of the Order. The Ring Committee is responsible for the sale of class rings to jun- iors and seniors desiring them. An ordinance was passed by the trustees in 1871 pre- scribing that caps and gowns be worn by students and fac- ulty of the University, following the Oxford-Cambridge tra- ditions upon which Sewanee was to be modeled. Two years later, in 1873, William Porcher DuBose. at that time Chap- lain of the University, arranged for junior and senior stu- dents to be excused from military drill, and organized the Order of Gownsmen. Membership was limited to graduate students and to the more advanced undergraduates. Since its founding the Order has steadily taken on more respon- sibility in the handling of student affairs.
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