PROPOSED REVISION TO COUNCIL CONSTITUTION

According to the constitution of the Alumni Council amendments to be presented at the meeting of the Alumni Association must be stated in full either by mail to each member of the Association or published in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and in either case such notice must be given not less than one month before the date upon which the amendment is to be considered. Pursuant to this provision the following changes in the Council constitution proposed by the Alumni Council, are herewith printed.

The third paragraph of Article V, Section 3, now reads as follows : "Such notice shall give the names of the council member or members holding office until said first of July, state whether any such sitting member is eligible for reelection, and request the alumnus receiving notice to nominate one candidate for each vacancy to arise on July first. Alumni nominated must reside within the group of states within which the nominating alumnus has his residence."

It is proposed that this paragraph be revised as follows: "Such notice shall give the names of the council member or members holding office until said first of July, state whether any such sitting member is eligible for reelection and request the alumnus receiving notice to nominate one candidate for each vacancy to arise on July first. With such notice shall be sent a nomination blank prepared in such form as the secretary of the Alumni Association, with the approval of the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association, may prescribe; and such blank shall bear the facsimile signature of the said secretary.

"Alumni nominated must reside within the group of states within which the nominating alumnus has his residence." The fourth paragraph of Section 3 now reads: "Nominations made in response to such notices, and received by said secretary of the Alumni Association on or before March Ist of each year, shall be by him examined, and the three men whose names are found most frequently mentioned for nomination, shall be nominees. If two or more men are proposed by the same number of voters, and that number is third in order, the third nominee shall be chosen by lot from the names suggested by the same number of voters."

It is proposed that this paragraph be revised in the following way: "The Secretary of the Alumni Association shall examine all nomination blanks received by him before March 1 of each year, and shall designate as nominees the three persons who have received the largest number of votes, except that no person shall be considered among the nominees who has not received at least five votes for nomination. If two or more persons receive an equal number of votes, and if ,by reason of such tie or ties more than three persons receive the largest number of votes, the number shall be reduced to three by selection by lot from that group of nominees the tie vote for whom has caused the excess over three.

"The Secretary of the Alumni Association shall forthwith notify the nominees in each district and the secretary of each alumni association within the same district, of the nominees designated for that district. If on such notification any nominee should decline nomination, the vacancy or vacancies thus created shall be filled by designation, as prescribed in the previous paragraph.

"If by reason of declination of nomination or of an insufficient number of nominating votes, one nominee only remains in any district, no election balloting shall take place in such district and the nomination shall be equivalent to election. The Secretary of the Alumni Association shall, however, at the time for forwarding election ballots notify each voting member in such district of the fact of such nomination and election."

These proposed amendments will come before the Alumni Association for action at its annual meeting on June 20, 1927.