ASC "Arms" Extend Helping Hand to Students
Rv Stephen Russell
By Stephen R. Reed
(Editor's Note—The following is the first in a series of four articles explaining the organization of ASC executive committees.)
KU's executive branch of its student government body has 24 arms extended to serve the student.
They protect his welfare, keep him informed of campus and world affairs and create and organize activities for him. These arms are the 24 executive committees provided for by the Constitution of the All Student Council.
ARTICLE FIVE of the ASC Constitution provides for an executive division consisting of the student body president and vice-president. It also gives them the power to appoint any committees necessary for their duties or any requested by the Council.
Bill five adds that the executive division shall include three departments; the Department of Student Welfare, the Department of Public Relations and the Department of Student Activities.
All executive committees shall be placed in the proper department by the creator of the committee or by the president or vice president when either is a member of the committee.
THE PRESIDENT AND vice-president also appoint secretaries to head these departments, the president appointing the department secretary of Student Welfare and the vice-president appointing the department secretaries of Public Relations and Student Activities.
It is the duty of each department secretary to see that each committee in his department is functioning effectively, to notify each committee if it is required to give a report to the Council, and to notify the appointing officer of that committee if there is any inadequacy in the committee's staff.
It is also the duty of each secretary to insure that each committee maintains an adequate record of its proceedings and delivers these records to him before the end of the Spring Semester. Committee chairmen meet once a month with the secretary of their department to inform him on the activities and plans of their respective committees.
THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-president appoint the committee members in consultation with the secretary of the department under which the committee is placed. The president appoints all of the committees under the department of Student Welfare and
any committee of which he is a member.
The vice-president appoints all the committees under the departments of Public Relations and Student Activities and any committees of which he is a member and the president is not.
Student, not ASC representatives, and, in some instances, faculty members compose the committees' membership. Executive division committees should include members from all recognized student political parties, more than one academic class, and more than one living district. Size is determined by the department secretary if it is not stipulated in the ASC bill concerning the committee.
The department of Student Welfare consists of eight committees; the Student Health Commission, the Blood Drive Committee, the Human Rights Committee, the Student-Faculty Traffic and Safety Committee, the Student-Faculty Calendar Committee, the Student-Faculty Orientation Committee, the Student-
Faculty University Events Committee and the Student-Faculty Commencement Committee.
THE DEPARTMENT of Public Relations consists of seven committees; the Public Relations Committee, the Campus Chest, the Student Publications Board, the Hosting and Hospitality Committee, the Student Opinion Poll, the Student Facts and Statistics Committee and the Student Communications Board.
The department of Student Activities consists of six committees; the Social Committee, the Traditions Committee, the Student-Faculty Convocations and Lectures Committee, the Student-Faculty Film Series Committee, the Current Events Committee and the Student Leadership Program.
The Union Operating Board and the Disciplinary Committee are
with the ASC treasurer, the department secretaries and the committee chairmen to allot and account for the funds allotted to the executive committees.
also executive division committees whose members the president appoints.
THE EXECUTIVE comproller, appointed by the president, works
Starts
tomorrow!