Ben Stern wrote:
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:29:15PM +0000, John Demme wrote:
I am hereby proposing an amendment to UMLUG's constitution.
The preamble would be changed from:
"We, the members of the UM Linux Users Group (UMLUG), do hereby
establish this Constitution in order to provide support for users of
the free operating system, Linux."
To:
"We, the members of the UMLUG at Maryland Linux Users Group (UMLUG),
do hereby establish this Constitution in order to provide support for
users of the free operating system, Linux."
Rationale:
Unfortunately, "UM" is a university trademark, and we will probably
not be allowed to renew our SGA registration using this name. The new
recursive name was suggested ( by Mathias, I think ) and will allow us
to continue under "UMLUG".
You have got to be kidding. When we went for SGA funding several years ago,
they yelled at us long and hard until we changed "University of Maryland" to
"UM." "UM" is a university trademark?
I suspect that this means that in seven years, "$foo at Maryland" will be
rejected by the then-sitting SGA. However, that will not be the current
officers' problem.
I, too, would love to hear some explanation of why UM is now verboten.
And Article V, Section 4, bullet point 3 changed from:
"If any normal office, other than President, be vacant, the President
shall have the power to appoint an existing officer to hold the vacant
office until the next election."
To:
"If any normal office, other than President, be vacant, the President
shall have the power to nominate an active member or existing officer
to hold the vacant office until the next election. Said nominee will
be voted into the position by a simple majority at the next meeting"
Rationale:
The current constitution does not allow adding officers, only changing
their positions. If we are interested in adding officers (we have
only two for this year) this change is necessary.
Please send your votes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, only UMCP
students, faculty, and staff are considered active membership.
Did this change? It used to only be undergrads who could vote.
More to the point, I'm pretty sure this would clash with the SGA rules
regulating funded student clubs.
-DMZ
