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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

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and (m) dealing with the Faculty Advisory Committee, are not involved in this amendment, and are omitted. In a new editorial updating of the statutes, to go before the Senates later, they will appear in sections separate from those concerning the Senate organization.) SENATE CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS, URBANA (IS) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate, in anticipation of approval of its proposed revisions of Section 6 of the University Statutes, has adopted a constitution and bylaws. T h e documents, copies of which are being filed with the Secretary of the Board, a r e presented herewith for appropriate action. (Under revised Section 6 of the University Statutes, the constitution must be approved by the Board of T r u s t e e s ; the bylaws and changes thereto must be reported to the Board.) The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus and the Executive Vice President and Provost concur in the proposed documents. I recommend approval of the constitution of the Urbana-Champaign Senate and the "transition report" which provides for its implementation.

On motion of Mr. Neal, the recommendation was approved, with the understanding that clarification as to the intent of the Senate in two specific instances would be supplied for the record. (The clarification is provided in the following letter from Professor Sheldon J. Plager, Chairman of the Senate Committee on University Statutes and Senate Procedures.)

March 18, 1971 President David D. H e n r y 364 Administration Building Pursuant to your request, made at the meeting of the Board of Trustees, March 17, 1971, for amplification of the intention of the Urbana-Champaign Senate regarding Art. I, Sec. 2 and Art. I l l , Sec. 6, I believe the following represents the sense of the debates in the drafting committee and in the Senate, and reflects my representations to the Board on these m a t t e r s : 1. Article I, Section 2 is intended to mean that only persons who continue to be members of the faculty or student electorates, as defined in the Constitution, may continue to serve as elected Senators from their respective constituencies. If an elected Senator for any reason ceases to be a member of the electorate from which he was elected, his seat is automatically vacated, and will thereafter be filled by election in accordance with Article II, Section 9 (faculty), or Article I I I , Section 5 (students). 2. Article I I I , Section 6, second sentence, was intended to mean that the elected heads of the graduate and undergraduate student bodies, in order to be ex officio members of the Senate as provided therein, must be members of the student electorate during the period in which they hold Senate membership. As is the case with elected Senators, if they for any reason should cease to be members of the student electorate, they automatically lose their membership in the Senate. The phrase requiring membership in the student electorate in order to be "seated" was intended to connote a continuing status, not merely the initial act of being seated as a member for the first time.

SHELDON J. PLAGER

Professor of L a w Chairman, Senate Committee on University Statutes and Senate Procedures ROLL CALL I T E M S

Mr. Grimes moved that a roll call vote be taken, said roll call to be considered the roll call vote on each of the next six items, 16 to 21, and that the Secretary be instructed to record such vote as the separate vote of each Trustee on each item.