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'The Cadre, Feb.. 25,’ 1975,'page 1o. ’

What Really Happenedat Senate? Views “r Gordoncumpbelllﬂpither The UniversityActNorTIIel

The 7th meetin of the ' ’ v I 8 each in turn. To begin with unless otherwise stipulated :UPEI Senate was held on Wed. Marilyn was never elected in the constitution. The Feb. 19: at in Kelley t0 a Senate seat. Nor terms of office for our Memorial LibrarY- Before the was I for that matter. She Councillors Executive Mem- meeting was called to order was elected to the position berg, senate,and Board mam-

I introduced Doug Smith to ' ofviéevpresident of the - bers are not stipulated in .to PreSident Baker (the Cha“ Student Council. The posi- the constitution and have : irman of Senate) and reques" tion of Vice-President in— always been determined by " ted that he welcome him to ‘ cludes as one of its duties a formal motion of council - Senate in the usual manner- an ex—officio seat on Sen— A change in terms of off- . He refused on the grounds I ate. That simply means that ice of our council members ‘ that he felt that Doug was ' she was on Senate as a re— is not a constitutional not a Senate member- After sult of being Vice—Presi— change and is not subject about 10 minutes Of discus— dent and conversely that if to approvai of Senate or to

51°“ WhiCh led to arguement‘ She was not Vice‘PreSident, Section 24 Subsection 2 of I deCided to get Marllyn to she would not be on Senate. the University Act, ‘

the meeting as it was‘Bak‘ 0n the other hand, Wade The third questionable er'S contention that She MacLaughlan, for example, part of this arguement per- WaS still one Of our Six was elected to Senate as tains to the lack of recei- SenatorS- Wade MacLaughlan not as pt of Marilyn"§ resignation President Baker then Vice—Frasident or any oth— (by President Baker). There went through the minUteS 0f er position. are two objections to this the 5th meeting and the min— The second flaw with his Firstly since we are not . utes of the sixth meeting position had to do with her‘ subject to the Specified and business arising before term of office(one year,ac— terms of bffice of the act Senate approved the order cording to him)-In seetion and it was in fact declared

of the agenda. I then raised 24 Sﬁbsection 2 ofathe Un— by the council that Mari_ a point of order concerning iversity Act it states thatz'lynvs term had ended on

then I'm sorry. But, neith—

Student representation on "The term of office of -February 2 then there was er the University Act nor Senate and stated.0ur case elected members of Senate no resignaéion required the UPEISU requires that I for haV1ng Doug Smith as shall unless otherwise president Baker would hévé tell him about the change Senator instead'of Marilyh- especified be for three ye— been more correct in com_> so, in effect, it changes It was not a matter of pre— ars,.,_" plaining about the Changes nothing. My seCOnd object- ference Of one or the Other However Section 24 Sub— in terms of office If P _ 'ion to the third part of nor was I concerned how Doug section 3‘of the‘same Act .Sident Baker was igsultege . his arguement is that bed If would vote (a8 apposed to ' provides for an exemption because I neglectedto tell claims that he must be not- ,"2 .Marilyn) The reason for ral‘ of specified terms for stu— him about these Chan " ified in writing of Mari— ); ’ sing the point was that ac- dent representatives by , ’ 7 m gas, lyn's resignation (the one 3“ cording to our constitution, stating, * that's not even required 5.2 Doug was our legitimate sen' "The terms of office of 'anyway), yet he was neve; ' ator because Marilyn had student representatives_ notified of her appointment '5 been impeached on Feb. 2nd shall not be subject to add he didn't have to be 1i? and was replaced 0“ senete subsection 2 if it is oth— Besides by his own admis- - thy Doug according t0 the erWise PrOVided in the sion he,reads the Cadre Procedure outlined in the duly approved constitution .eVery week and was aware of UniversityActwhich states of the student body"a all the ramifications as in Section 23 Subsection It so happens that it is " (f)--- provided for in the Student g3. "There Shall be a Sen' 'Union Cogggitution under ate of the University con— Acticle Ell, section (1)en— sisting of the following titled, "Powers and Duties ’ Vof members: of the UPEISU Council". A... This section is too lengthy B... ‘ ' ' to reproduce but empowers C--- . council to enact formal re— D... . solutions governing the E... activities of the UPEISU

F-Five members from the student body of the university, elected in such a manner as set forth in _ the duly approved constitu- tion of the student body. President Baker questi— W‘i_ oned the legality of our actions and voiced concern that if the legality of Senate meetings were chal- lenged they could be dec— , lared null and void. Pres— ' . ‘7 -g'9,_, ' a -' ’ ”~— equﬁeffei : "-’ ident Baker contended that Fog Marilyn was the Senator because she was elected to a term of office of one Year and he had not as yet recieved her resignation ' from Senate. There is fault» with each of these conten— tions and I will deal with

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