.., ..... Vol. XLIV, No. 20 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday, March 28, 1963 ..... I Council Passes Revision Plans Elected Class Officers Seven Voting Members · To Predominate on SC, Removed From Council; 4. Six Groups To Remain Athletics To Be Added (The following is the text of b?1 George Thibault Lambert S pro n c k 's resolution which the Student Council passed The weeks of debate on on Sunday and comments on the Council revision finally ended f passing of the resolution from a speech given on March 25 by Dan- in concrete action at last Sun­ • iel J. Altobello, the President of day's meeting. The Council ap­ ., the Yard. J.J.G.) proved the resolution of senior Whereas: The Student Council representative Bert Spronck should be a representative body and by an 18-7 margin, in a secret bal­ whereas The Student Council is lot vote. A two-thirds vote was l' not now such a representative or­ necessary for approval since the gan due to the presence· of more proposal involved a change in .. activity heads than duly elected Council By-laws. .., Yard and Class Officers; The text of the Spronck-spon­ THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED sored measure is printed in the THAT: left-hand column. The essential de­ 1. Henceforth the Student Coun­ parture of this from the present t cil shall always consist of more Council structure is that seven ac­ tivity heads who are now voting directly elected Yard and Class A MOVE TO THE LEFT ... is called for as Bert Spronck, author of the Council revision, also members of the Council have been .. Officers than Activity heads. directs the photography, opting for the display of colorful councilmen. removed. The chairman of the Stu­ 0;'. 2. To protect the minority rights dent Athletic Committee wiIl join of activities, the combined Yard the remaining six activity heads and Class Officers total shall never and the eleven directly-elected exceed a 2f.I majority, but must GU Administration, Moran Nastasi Nominated members as a voting member. The always rather fall short of it. O' Seniors Assemble 'd-d seven unseated activities are: the 3. Persuant to this goal of ma­ St. John Berchmans Society, the jority rule by elected representa­ Discuss Class Gift For GU Yar Prest ency non-Resident Sodality, the Journal, tives and preservation of the rights the Band, the Mask and Bauble • of Student Activities, all activity by Dan Duff At 7 :30 p.m. last monday the student body was given Society, the Glee Club, and the In­ • heads shall be removed from the Last Thursday at 11 : 15 the a preview of next year's residents of the Yard Office at the ternational Relations Club. , Council with the exception of the senior class met in Gaston nominations rally in Copley Lounge. Only one candidate was following: 1) Sodality, 2) Wash­ As explained last week, when ington Club, 3) The Philodemic, Hall with the primary purpose nominated for each of three of the offices (Non-resident Spronck proposed his resolution, the 4) HOYA, 5) WGTB-FM, 6) Col- new Council contains a majority of discussing the Senior Class representative, Treasurer, and Secretary). There were two of directly elected members, but ~ legiate Club. Gift. Three speakers pre­ presidential nominees. Executive Secreiary of the Yard this majority will never equal the 4. The head of the Student Ath­ sented their views at the Randy Huston presided at-the two-thirds plurality that would en­ .. letic Committee be granted a seat In his brief acceptance speech, meeting: Father Edward B. Bunn, able them to act as a bloc in certain • ~ and full voting powers on the Stu­ rally. Each of the three pres­ Moran promised a further elabora­ parliamentary votes and thus sup­ dent Council as evidence of our S.J., President of the University; ent Yard Officers, Dan Alto­ tion of the specific points of his press the views of the activity commitment to the athletic sphere Father Joseph Sellinger, S ..r., Dean bello, John Nugent, and Tom platform in the near future. He heads. The selection of the activi­ of the College; and Mr. Rollins W. went on to thank the present Yard of life at Georgetown. Shields-spoke briefly on the ties that would retain seats was 5. There be set up, therefore, a Miller, Vice President of the New officers "for laying a foundation based upon the dual criteria of College Student Council consisting York Life Insurance Company. functions of his particular upon which the two candidates may "service and representation." of a majority of directly elected office and on his experiences in the move forward and make a student The purpose of the meeting was : Class and Yard representatives, to- past year. government which is more mean­ Spronck's measure was passed to further acquaint the class with after a resolution by sophomore • taling 12 and Activity representa­ Bill Moran, a history major from ingful that we have ever before tives totaling 7, thus giving the di­ the revolutionary plan the Senior had at Georgetown." class representative Tom Paukcn Easton, Pennsylvania, was the first was defeated. Pauken's proposal rectly elected Yard and Class rep­ Class Gift committee has proposed: presidential nominee. In his nomi­ The second presidential candi­ resentatives a working majority, instead of giving one lump class date is Nick Nastasi, a philosophy called for a more radical revision nation speech, Junior Nandor of the Council by transforming it • but not an all-embracing 2f.I ma­ gift, the class will draw insurance Fournier cited Moran as a man major from Springfield, Pennsyl­ jority. vania. In nominating Nastasi, John into a "student senate" of directly­ policies on each of its members who combines the necessary traits elected representatives. This group 6. If passed, these proposals of "tolerance and consideration Hempelmann emphasized Nastasi's so that at the class's twentieth or experience as a student leader who would be supplemented by an ac­ - t# will go into effect at the change­ twenty-fifth reunion they will be with imagination and intiative." He tivities council composed of eleven . over meeting of the Student Coun­ went on to say that the successful has "been honored with more ma­ able to present Georgetown with jor elective offices than any other activity heads which would act up­ cil in the Spring of 1963. a large sum of money coming from realization of next year's 175th An­ on matters directly concerning stu­ niversary .plans "is going to take member of his class." Hempelmann Respectfully submitted, the insurance plan. The plan has dent organizations. Their actions a man, no;\; with dreams, but with cited Nastasi's record as exemplary been in existence at various other of "a real effort to set up institu­ would become official unless op­ Lambert Spronck reasonable, calculated plans-above posed by two-thirds of the student Senior Class S.C. colleges throughout the nation and all a man of sufficient maturity and tions beneficial to Georgetown" and as indicative of his "great senate. Representative. has been known to work; what re- experience to deal with the less dedication to Georgetown and his ..... , Last evening in this room, the (Continued on Page 7) glamorous problems with which he Action was taken on both of will be confronted." fellow students." The highlight of these measures after each had been College Council made one of the Hempelmann's speech, at least reported favorably by the enti:-e most important advances that stu­ from the point of view of the re­ Council acting "as if in committee dent government at Georgetown tiring Yard Officers, was his refer­ of the whole." The Yard resolution, ~ has made in the past twenty-five ence to "present Yard President proposed last week, was withdrawn years. It was at that time that Dan Moriarty." in deference to Spronck's plan. The members of the Council returned Nastasi, in accepting the nomi­ Council was urged by two of its : to the elected representatives of nation, concentrated his remarks senior members-Mr. Scheye and , the classes the majority of the on the importance. of the "image Mr. Mietus-to waive redundant Council. This was done at the per­ of Georgetown College." He re­ and irrelevant debate in view of sonal sacrifice of the members of ferred to what he felt was "the the seriousness of the contemplated the Council who represent activ- most valuable Editorial statement measures and act with objectivity. ~ ities in the interest of the majority made by the Hoya this year: 'We The vote followed quickly upon the of the student body. This is an at Georgetown have an inferiority dissolution of the "committee of important advance. Like other complex (Hoya 2/14/63)'." He went the whole." plans it will, however, fail if it on to say that "I believe George­ does not have the total commit­ town has the stuff to be great, Spronck, Pauken, Yard President ment of the student body. For it is but if the name of Georgetown is AltobelIo, and all who have con­ ~ ill you that the reins of govern­ to be great, its students must be tributed to the Council reform are \. ment lie. The members of the Coun- great." He concluded with the be­ sincerely and justifiably hopeful " cil who voted last night, whether lief that the students are capable that the Council will now be a r for or against, displayed personal of accepting "the task of proving more efficient, more vital, and more conviction and integrity and the Georgetown to be first rate." highly respected organ for student objectivity that is necessary for The secretarial nominee is Chris action.