| Show Governing Body Meets in Decides Policy j This is tho third in a of seven articles dealing with the campus The articles arc written in collaboration with the editors of the Chronicle and Charles regional coordinator for the National Student Today's article explains the operation of the National Student Each year the supreme governing body of the meets to transact its This is the National Student It is here that policy is stands are budget is proposals are and officers are The Congress meets fourteen days in the leading up to the Congress is an enormous First a place must be secured which is favorable to This is usually a midwestern university the mid-west is easily to THE HOSTING school must have the facilities to feed and entertain some students and When this is mailings must go out to member schools advising them of cost and Preparation papers are sent out to the including a copy of the of all the resolutions on a the Congress a list of the workshops and committees which the delegate may up registration helpful hints on how to travel to the and other necessary AFTER THE delegate has in his registration card indicating his workshop and committee preference he is sent the working papers for these areas for his study and He is also kept informed usually by the national staff of other things he will need to know for the THE AGENDA of workshop and committee session is drawn up by the National Executive Committee It is submitted to the Congress delegates on the opening day of the Congress for debate and approval or The Congress in recent years has opened with about three days of workshop This is the time when various student leaders and delegates study national and international A delegate may attend two workshops as there are two workshop sessions during the three Then on the fourth morning the legislative process begins There arc five committees which usually function at an They are Human Relations The Student in the Academic Student Affairs The Student Responsibility to his Community and International Each of these communities is broken down into about four the number varying from three to depending on the THE MAIN committee then meets for two days during which time the individual delegate along with all the members of the other subcommittees consider the proposals coming from each After the committee has weeded out some proposals it makes its report to the final session of the Congress which lasts for about three |
