student council members discuss changes to constitution BILL

“Someone not in [Student Council] came in to pitch the idea that we should consider redesigning the Homecoming royalty system to be more inclusive of those who might not fit into the defined gender categories,” Hamarshi said. “The issue with the proposition was how people were worried with how it might change the voting system for royalty. Many of these people who would have voted no on the change were afraid of the repercussions of saying that in a non-anonymous environment, skewing the results of the vote.”

From this incident, Student Council realized a change in the voting process was needed.

“We decided we were going to not only revote but also redo all of the process that was set before so that we had strict boundaries that would affect this vote and future votes,” Briere said.

Furthermore, Student Council members had the realization that the constitution required changes in multiple gray areas.

“The end goal of the mandate of the student council constitution was to create more guidance within the rules,” Briere said. “The rules we had before were very vague and could be taken in many different ways. We tried to put more specifics and the parts that we didn’t have rules on, create rules.”

The tardiness and absences of Student Council members has long been an issue, but the amendments now include regulations against that.

“People miss a lot of Student Council meetings, and that wasn’t really being tracked,” Hamarshi said. “We now have a system in place.”

After making changes to the constitution, Student Council feels confident that for the foreseeable future, no more changes will be made.

“I hope they continue to use this in future years and they don’t have to amend it again,” Briere said. “We put a lot of hard work into it and made some significant changes.”

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