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tion V are hereby repealed.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.
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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.
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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