Coeds conduct elections today
By MERRILY ROBINSON
Elections today in most women's residence halls and sorority houses will ratify or reject the new Associated Women Students' (AWS) constitution.
An overall two-thirds majority is necessary for ratification.
Election results, including those of the freshmen poll Thursday, will be tabulated in the Dean of Women's office tomorrow. Hashinger elections will be held tomorrow evening.
Dorothy Sloan, chairman of the AWS constitution committee, predicted yesterday that the new constitution will probably be ratified.
"It has already been approved by both the house of representatives and senate. If the house is truly representative of women students, that means the new constitution should go through," she said.
The proposed new constitution is approximately one-third the size of the present one, ratified in 1947. Major changes it would make include changing the names of the house and senate to forum and council, and cutting the council from its present 21 members to 17.
Miss Sloan said the name change was recommended because of the legislative connotations of "house" and "senate," while "AWS" is actually more a problem-solving body.
"The council would be smaller than the present senate to make it a more workable size," she said.
"The basic structure won't be changed, though, because members will still be elected at large."
The constitution being presented for approval is the result of about a year's work by an 11-member committee composed of one representative each from the house and senate, representatives from living groups and an advisor, Mrs. Susan Crawford, from th Dean of Women's office.
The constitution rewriting was recommended last year by the regulations convention.
Gail Davenport, constitution committee member from the AWS house, said the purpose of the revision was to cut the constitution
down to basics and institute by laws to govern most procedural matters.
Two elected to CYR meet
Two representatives of the KU Collegiate Young Republicans (CYR) were elected to state-wide offices Saturday at the annual CYR Convention in Hutchinson.
Elected state-wide CYR programs chairman was Doug Balcombe, Parsons junior. Balcombe will be in charge of CYR state projects and a state-wide speaker's bureau.
Connie Myers, Newton senior,
was selected the convention's
beauty queen from a field of 15.
Miss Myers will represent the
state CYR in April at its midwest
convention at Chicago and again
in June at the organization's
national conference at Omaha.
"Presently, all legislation governing AWS is contained in the constitution," she said, "which means any sort of minor change must go through the channels of a constitutional amendment. A campus-wide election must be called each time."
A resolution was also passed in support of the Briers-Winter bill, currently before the Kansas Legislature which would allow cigarette sales on campuses of state colleges and universities.
Most of the major changes in the workings of AWS, including a complete revamping of the committee system to allow more representation from the house forum, will be instituted through new bylaws now in preparation by the constitution committee.
According to Miss Sloan, the slate of bylaws is now nearly complete but has yet to be voted on by the AWS House and Senate.
"The new constitution, if ratified, will go into effect at the next regular AWS meeting," she said. "The new bylaws should then be ready when new officers elected March 29 are installed.
"Actually, this means we would be operating in limbo for the time between implementation of the new constitution and passage of the bylaws. For a period of probably about three weeks, we'd have no actual rules and regulations.
Miss Sloan said the general philosophy behind formulation of the bylaws had been to allow the representative body, the forum house, more power in AWS policy-making.
M-UN plans 'realism'
The Model United Nations (M-UN) has undergone many changes this year, bringing it much closer to the original UN.
There are 83 delegations registered, as opposed to 70 at the same time last year. Ruth Hatch, Evansville, Ind., junior and secretary general of the M-UN, said more delegations were expected to apply.
The M-UN is scheduled for April 13, 14 and 15.
THE GREATEST demand has been to represent the Communist bloc countries, Miss Hatch said, and these are all taken now. The African delegation is the weakest, and more delegations are
needed there. Delegations are composed of from four to eight persons.
Changes this year are towards an enlargement of the program. Miss Hatch said, "We now have four committees instead of three in the general assembly. A legal committee has been added, and the other three are the special political committee, the political and security committee, and the trusteeship committee."
To the security council, an economic and social council has been added. These work separately from the general assembly as in the real U.N.
Another addition is the bloo
Sorority officers begin their duties
New executive officers and council chairmen will begin their duties within the Panhellenic Association 7 p.m. Tuesday at an orientation meeting in the Kansas Union.
The new executive officers are Sara Bly, Arkansas City junior, president; Judy Cady, Beloit junior, vice president; Nancy Matthews, Neodesha junior, secretary; and Tobi Jones, Ashtabula, Ohio, junior, teasurer.
THE PANHELLENIC president is selected by the outgoing presidential council.
Besides the four executive officers, there are six council chairmen. The councils are social, presidential, pledge trainers, scholarship, standards, and rush. Each council consists of 13 members, officers from each of the sororities.
meeting scheduled for Thursday, April 13, the morning before the first session.
"This will help the bloes set up procedure and policies and to allow for more realism at the assembly," said Miss Hatch.
FACULTY ADVISERS head each delegation this year. Advisers will also serve on a credentials committee. Anybody can challenge the credentials.
This is the second year for off-campus participants. Visiting this year are the University of Oklahoma; Culver-Stockton, Kenton, Mo.; Metropolitan Junior College, Kansas City; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Wesleyan, Blue East, Ill., and the University of Tula.
Daily Kansan Monday, March 6, 1967
New council chairmen are social chairman, Judy Conyers, St. Louis, Mo., junior; pledge trainer chairman, Susan Weinlood, Hutchinson junior; scholarship chairman, Nancy Middleton, Kansas City, Mo., junior; standards chairman, Gloria Chadborn, Kansas City junior; and rush chairman, Janice Whelan, Topeka junior. Presidential chairman is yet unnamed.
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