Volume II, Palomar College, San Marcos , Calif. ----~y_2)..i_ l956________
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C1-\1\1 DI DA CIES CL/\ I~ I FI ED BY 5 Up RE t\11 E C Q U RT The Supreme Court 'of· the Palomar College J.SB vias call ed into an emergency session }fiay 16, in or der to hand down decisions regarding to day ' s election . ~"embe rs of the Court attending this session were Dick La Bree, Jim Freund, Dale Cowan, Kay Seebold and ChiefJustice Jack Hutchinson . The complaints were brought before the Court by several candidates who had been denied the right to run for llSB offices on the ~ rounds of various ineligibilities, primarily scholastic . These nlaintiffs felt that the Constitution of the ~-;3"13 might h<JTe been mis interpreted by the Cre~entials Com~ittee . The r ulir.gs hcnded clown by the Court were as follmw:
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News Flash
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was selected the new President of PalomAr Colle§e by unamimous apprcval of the Governing Board last night . Dunn repl~ces Dr. Phil Putnam who has accepted the presidency of Ventura Coll ege . Full details in our regular June l addition .
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§tudent body members go to the today in the finale of the fir-i:es.t election campaign w2ged in local campus history . Despite the compl~ints l evied by the three candi dates who were denied the right to r un on the grounds of 11 various inelgibilit:Les " the contests have generated more enthusiasm and student response than ever before ,. Voting will be held in the c~feteria until 2:00 . po~ls
1. noes the Supreme Court of the .·>SB ~are the power to grant exc eptions to the Cmstitution? progress? The Court voted NO by a. l.i-1 vote. Bv unanimous vote th e Court de clar ed The one affirmative vote was cast by Ch:iBf that if the grades of only one sseme s ter Justice Hutchinson . 'Jf at l east 13 units ar e being used for a ?. . Could seccn d semes t er tentative gra de point a.verage, then it must be a grarles 0 e considered in determining elicompl e ted semester ; and if a school year gibility for office? of at l r:J ast 30 un i ts is being used to com The Court vote d unanimously YES. pute eligi'~ ili ty, then one of the semeEr_'3 . Shoul d all g rades earned by a stu dent ters used mc- ybbo an incompleted semestEr be considered or just the highest 13 units 5 , Yvhen do t he t erms of office begin? be used in computing the gra de point aver The Court voted unan imously that tl~ age necessary for eligibility to office? terms of offic e begin at the start oft he The vote of the Court was una rd ntous l pst week of the school year in June . in declaring that all gr ade s mu&t b a used 6 . l.re Commissioners of Men ' s and \'iomen ' . in the computing of gra de points for eli gi...J. . cti vities to l; e considered re Gularly bjlity to office . electe d officers in computing grade point 4. Jb o11l d th e s :.:rn83ter averaged be the eligibility for office ? 5{.j!fl""St.er ~o,· ·pJ e~.0r1 or tre semester in The Court voted unanimously NO .