Council Amendment On Voting Defeated

A proposal to change the system of voting for freshman representatives to the Student Council was defeated in a referendum taken Monday.

The vote was 846 for and 674 against. The Council's constitution provides that proposed amendments must receive a two-thirds vote in a referendum to be passed. The plan received only 55.7 per cent of a student vote.

At present the Union Committee appoints three representatives to the Council to serve with vote for the second term of the freshman year, and the freshman class elects, in May, three representatives to serve for the first term of the sophomore year until regular Council elections are held.

The defeated amendment would have the freshman class elect the three representatives at the end of their first term to serve until the end of the fall term of the following year.