Stories from the November 20, 1997, Print Edition
GW students will vote for student leaders after spring break this school year if the proposed Joint Elections Committee charter is approved.
The charter, which regulates student elections, has brought the election date into debate among students, along with issues on the definition of candidates and the role of the JEC.
Students, faculty and administrators packed a Funger Hall auditorium Tuesday night to address the issue of moving Commencement from the Ellipse to the newly-built MCI Center.
The town hall meeting, sponsored by the Student Association, gave students the opportunity to give their input and question the committee charged by GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg to make recommendations for Commencement.
The proposed venue change for GW's spring Commencement ceremony has provoked heated student sentiment this semester, and incited one of the most united activist movements on campus in recent memory.
"This is an even more united fight than last year's fight against the tuition increase," said Student Association undergraduate Sen. Patrick Macmanus (at large), who is spearheading the Senate's efforts to keep the event on the Ellipse.
GW Law School students will have a voice in the search for a new dean with the creation of a student advisory selection committee, according to Roger Schechter, chair of the faculty Dean Search Committee.
The faculty search committee denied the Student Bar Association's proposal in October to seat a student as a non-voting member of the committee, which will find a successor to Jack Freidenthal.
The chair of the Commencement committee said he is not a betting man, but he is "willing to bet you that Commencement is going to be on the Ellipse this spring."
John Jenkins, associate dean of the GW Law School and chair of the committee, was among several committee members who heard students' opinions at Tuesday's Commencement town hall meeting in Funger Hall.
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