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by Mark Berenson Thresher Editorial Staff A revised version of the Student Association constitution will be put to the vote of undergraduates in this spring's General Elections. The vote was originally planned for a special election during the first few weeks of this semester so the new constitution would be in effect for the General Elections. SA Parliamentarian Rudy Fink said he and the other officers decided they would have a hard time getting the necessary number of students to vote in the special election. "It is something that we hoped would happen, but realized that it was unrealistic," Fink said. To approve the new constitution, 20 percent of the student body must vote, and two-thirds of those must approve it. The changes to the constitution will be discussed at Monday's SA meeting, at 10 p.m. in Farnsworth Pavilion. Fink, a Hanszen College senior, said one of the substantive changes proposed includes requiring blanket tax organizations to have their own constitutions. Currently the organizing documents for KTRU, The Rice Thresher, Rice Program Council and the other blanket tax organizations are contained in the SA constitution's bylaws. Another proposed change would require blanket tax organizations to have their leader elected by a general vote of undergraduates. Another possible proposal is to have only one elected office per blanket tax organization, a decision that would affect the Rice Student Volunteer Program. However, according to RSVP Internal Vice Chair Chad Chasteen, the proposed constitution will be changed to enable RSVP to still have several elected positions. Fink said that most of the updates to the constitution reflect how business is currently done. For example, the old constitution bases its election rules on a paper ballot, instead of online elections. "The changes aren't broad sweeping, they are corrective, because a lot of stuff was really just out of date," Fink said. The current draft of the new constitution was sent out to the SA listserv and will be available on the SA Web site (http://sa.rice.edu) by Monday. The General Elections will be held Feb. 23-28.
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