Voting for New Council Members Opens Today

The Class nomination committee will hold its final meeting tonight in the upper common room of Adams House.

Nomination petitions for Class elections to the Student Council are due at the Council office by 5 o'clock today. Petitions require 25 signatures and should include a short biography and number of terms nominee has remaining in College.

House committee chairmen should have ballots, check list, and two counters at the Council office by 7:30 o'clock tonight.

Full-scale operation of the new Student Council election system under the revised constitution gets under way today as members of the seven undergraduate Houses and commuters from Dudley Hall cast their ballots to choose their first regular Council representatives.

Last February the Houses elected temporary delegates to fill in on the Council until the regularly scheduled present election, but the men picked today at noon and evening meals will represent their respective Houses for the entire next year.

All the Houses except Adams achieved successful quorums in last week's nomination meetings. Under the new constitution rules, Adams House nominees were then selected by a committee composed of the present Council delegate, three members of the House committee, and three men appointed by the House Master. To these ballot slates have been added men nominated by petition of the constituents of their respective House.

Meanwhile, Council president Richard G. Axt '46 announced that the Class nomination committee will meet tonight at 7 o'clock in the Adams House upper common room. "The meeting has been scheduled at this time so that office-seekers may have a chance at the Class elections if they are defeated in the House voting," Axt said.

"We expect to have the House ballots counted by tomorrow night and thus enable defeated Council candidates from the Houses to get their names on the Class ballots if they so desire," Axt added yesterday.

Class elections will be held next Tuesday, with three Council delegates being chosen by the incoming Sophomore Class, and two representatives each by the incoming Junior and Senior Classes.