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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1958)
Four Amendments Proposed Official notice of four propose ! amendments to the ASUO Con stitution is published below. In order to become part of the Constitution, the amendments must be approved by two-thirds of those voting in the ASUO election April 30. with the added provision that one-third of the student body must vote. AMENDMENT It is hereby moved that Article Vi of the ASUO Constitution be amended as follows: Section 11. Section II, and Sec tion V are hereby repealed. Section II shall read as follows: Positions elected at large. Po sitions elected at large shall in clude President, Vice-President, and nine Senators at Large. Can didates for President shall be listed on a separate ballot. Their names shall also appear on the ballot for Senator at Large, in alphabetical order with the Sena torial candidates. The candidate for President receiving a majority or the last remaining candidate after the tiTmsfer of other b illots under the preferential system, as set forth in Article III of the by laws. shall be declared President. The candidate for President re ceiving the second highest nuni ber of votes shall be declared Vice-President. The unsuccessful candidates for President shall lie considered candidates for Senator at Large. Nine Senators at Large shall then be selected under the preferential system of voting as set out in Article III of the by laws. In the election the Senator at Large votes for the successful candidates for President and Vice President shall be redistributed according to second choice indi cated on the ballots. Section III shall read as fol lows : In the election for class offi cers. each candidate shall desig nate the office sought I President or Representative I the candidate for president receiving a majority or the last remaining candidate after the transfer of other ballots under the preferential system, as set forth in Article III of the by laws. shall be declared President. The candidate for President re ceiving the second highest num ber of votes shall be declared Vive-President. After the election of President and Vice-President, the remaining presidential candi dates shall be declared defeated. The President and Vice-President shall retain the number of ballots needed for the ouota for four offices to be filled, the remaining DR. HARRY RUBIN, virus expert of the California Institute of Technology, is pictured in his laboratory after he reported pro ducing cancer in a test tube by use of a virus. The development further implicates viruses as a cause of malignancy generally. i ballots shall be transferred to the candidates for representatives. ♦ ♦ ♦ AMENDMENT It is hereby moved that Article Yll of the ASUO Constitution be amended as follows: Section 111 is hereby repealed. Section II! shall lead us fol lows : Adoption. A two-thirds ma jority of the ballots cast shall be necessary for the adoption of any amendment, provided at least one fouitb of the qualified voters vote on the amendment. ♦ ♦ O AMENDMENT Whereas the Preamble of the ASUO Constitution does not em phasize democratic values as a guiding? principle of student gov ernment; therefore, be it recog nized that after the phrase in the preamble that reads "of students in relation to the community" and before the phrase that reads “to improve student cultural, social, etc..” this Constitution shall be amended to read as fol lows: "To encourage a respect for fundamental democratic values such as freedom of speech, free dom of press, freedom of religion and the essential equality of all races in the human family." AMENDMENT Article' IV. Section 1, Clause 2, shall be'repealed. Article VI, Sections II, HI. IV, shall be repealed. Article IV, Section I, Claus** 3. shall be amended to read "twenty eight 128) members elected at large.” Article III, Section V, Clause III, shall read: "It shall be the duty of the Vije-President to re port to the Senate at its second meeting of the spring term, on the basis of university records, the number of students living in each of the following seven living groups: fraternities, sororities, men's tesidence halls, women’s residence halls, cooperatives, uni versity-owned married student's housing, am: off-campus, which shall include all students not in cluded above. It shall be the duty of the Vice President to allocate, in an equal and impartial manner prior to this meeting, twenty-three (23) •epresentatives among the said KOCKETMEN_Wernher Von Braun, center, and Theodore C. Merkle, left, look over a model of the Jupiter C missile with Hep. John McCormack (D-Mass) before Von Braun told congressmen vig orous action is needed for the United States to overcome Kussia's lead in missiles. German-born missile expert Von Braun and Merkle, head of the radiation division of the University of Califor nia’s laboratory at Livermore, Calif., testified at a hearing of the special House committee on As tronautics and Space Exploration. seven living; groups, on the busis of the number of students living in each living group. Such alloca tion as the Vice-President does make shull be subject to the ap proval of the Senate." Article VI. Section. II, shall read. "Positions elected at large. Positions elected at large shall include President and Vice-Presi dent. Names of candidates for President of this Association shall appear on a separate ballot. The candidate receiving the highest : number of votes shall be Presi dent. The candidate receiving the second highest number of votes 1 shall be Vice-President." Article Yl, Section III, shall read. "Candidates for representa tive shall live in the living group from which they seek election, on tlie date they petition as a eandidate. Only those students living in the particular living group shall vote for candidates for representative for that living group. Each living group shall elect the number of representa tives allocated to it. those can didates receiving the highest number of votes being elected. Separate ballots will be printed for each living group." Article VI, Section IV, shall read. Clause !. I of election. ASl’O elections shall take place after the first and prior to the eighth week of spring term. ( lauttc II. Freshman class elec tions shall take place after the fifth and prior to the eighth week of fall term. Candidates for Presl [ dent and Vice-President of the Freshman class shall la; on a sep arate ballot from candidates for the four <41 representative po sitions. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be President. The candidate re . ceiving the ae< ond highest num ber of votes shall be Vice-Presi dent. Clause III. The Freshman class shall elect four (4i representa tives. The four (4) candidates re ceiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. Clause IV. The graduate stu dent election shall take pla< •• after the fifth and prior to the eighth week of fail term. Article I.\ shall read: Section 1. Each class shall elect a President and Vice-President. Section II. The officers of each class, except the Freshman class officers shall be elected at the ‘ time of the ASUO elections. Section 111. Each of the above named class officers shall he members of the ASUO cabinet with voting rights therein. 'Moons' May Tell About land Drift Satellites circling; the earth nuiy answer the old question of continental diift, E. (5. Kbblg hatisen, professor of physics at the University of Oregon, told a banquet meeting of- Oregon Broadcasters at the Eugene Hotel Friday night. Not only do the scientists want to find out about the density of the earth’s atmosphere and the direct, unscattered cosmic rays before they are biokon up by the atmosphere, but also such things as what happens when meteors hit satellites, and what Is the exact shape of the earth, for mapping purpo. es. Ebbighuusen believes it is non sense to believe that satell tes could provide Information on what is going on in other parts of the universe. Information now being received from the baby moons is pure science the profes sor said. Tlie problem that lies ahead for scientists now is not the launch ing of rockets, which tie said is an easy matter, tail how to get man to the Moon. Job Opportunities Interviews for summer work for college men on jobs earning up to $2,000 will he held today at 1:00 p.m. in room 258 Emerald Hall. SECKF-TAKY of State Hull's cups a hand to an car as he list'-ns to an outline of pro posed legislation read to him by < 'hairmaa John I’astore (D-KI) of the Senate-Home At onic Energ} SuUcoiuinlttee. In this t-simony before the group Dulles said the United States must share atomic weapons sec rads with its allies to keep the Soviet Union from dominating them with nuclear superiority. VETfcKINAKiAN Uobert ituo.vies is shown performing surgery under water on “Old Abe” tbo Miama (l'’la.) Seuquarium’s 500 J pound jewfish, which appeared to he suffering from a tumor. But the operation—termed successful—produced not a tumor hut a five-pound weight swallowed by Old Abe sometime ago. The fish
