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Show PUBLICATIONSiimummâ- S*> •i>-â- ::MS3kPlummer, Seerlings, Parsons, Bennion, Barlow(lJitblLccitiaii& ManualThe most important duties of the Publications Council are the selecting of the editors and business managers of the Utonian, Chronicle, Pen and Humbug, and the supervising of their activities in these various capacities. Through its regulating powers, it may be said that the council has direct control over the policies of the publication heads.Realizing the full responsibility of their official positions, the members of the council proved themselves the most active and serious-minded executives yet to have membership on the council. In addition to rendering cooperative supervision over the campus publications, the council sponsored a thorough system of selecting the editors and business managers for the ensuing year.Under the requirements of the amendment to the Constitution adopted by the student body last spring at its annual election, the council prepared detailed examinations pertinent to the proper examining of the prospective publication men, The examinations were conducted by the chairman of the council and two faculty members of the English department. Upon successfully passing the written test, the candidates were personally interviewed by the council as a unit, and it, after due diliberation, made its official announcement through the columns of the Chronicle.The Publications Council was composed of five members each having the power to vote; while an ex-officio member, the student manager, attended all meetings but had no vote in the affairs. The members of the council were elected by popular vote of the student body the preceding spring. Two of the students and one faculty representative were installed for a two year office tenure; while the third student member's office was for one year. The faculty representative who served his-second year on the council automatically became the chairman of the group.After a few special appointments by the executive council due to the withdrawal from school by previously elected members, the council stood as follows: Dr. Jacob Geerlings, chairman, Sail Plummer, faculty representatives; Samuel D. Thurman, Jr., Frances Parsons, and Ford Barlow, student representatives.One Hundred Ninety-eight |