The Constitution of The Pride Alliance
(A downloadable and printable copy of the constitution is available here)
Article I: The name of this organization shall be "The Pride
Alliance." This name may be amended in the future as per the bylaws, and
must have approval of the appropriate student offices(s).
Article II: The purpose of this organization shall be to provide information,
education, and opportunity for growth and support to the homosexual, bisexual,
transgender, and heterosexual student body and to any other member of the
student body, faculty, staff and the community at large which may desire to
obtain it.
It shall be the purpose of this organization to provide outreach services and
education to the community as a whole for both the purposes of improving the
community and the image of the students within the organization. Pride Alliance
shall provide information on the historical role of the sexually oriented
minority groups in America
and the world society.
Article III: Any person regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual
orientation, financial ability, or any disability may be a member of The Pride
Alliance.
Article IV: The elected offices of this organization shall be:
*One President *One Vice President *One Public Relations *One Secretary *One
Treasurer
The offices of President and Vice President shall be
filled by a male, female, and/or transgendered. One
of these groups may not be represented in both offices. One, but not both, of the offices of
President and Vice President may be filled by a member of the sexual majority.
In cases where this representation cannot be filled due to lack of running
mates a pseudo office shall be erected. This office will be the pseudo Vice
President, and can be filled by any sex, and will have all duties entitled to
the Vice President without voting rights. The person to fill the position of
pseudo Vice President may be preprocessed by any member but must be approved by
at least 2/3 majority of members in attendance at the time of the vote.
Role of the President:
The President must reside over and keep order throughout the meetings. The
President will have the duty of writing the weekly agenda. After all records
are received and places into the agenda, the President is responsible for
making sure the agenda and all other available information is give to the
Vice-President. The President is responsible for making sure activities and
meetings are planned and carried out in accordance with the organizations'
goals. The President will also be responsible for making sure that any member
of non-member may have a copy of the constitution and by-laws. They are to make
sure that all guidelines and regulations are followed. They are to form a
committee and preside over that committee with the task of performing an audit
of the organizations' funds once in the middle of each semester. Their term
shall be two semesters (fall and spring) plus two weeks. The President may delegate to any individual
any of the powers granted herein.
Role of the Vice President:
The Vice President shall help assist in residing over the meetings and keeping
order. They will be in charge of keeping all records, and all records organized
in the fashion that will allow them to be passed along to the next officers.
This shall include but not be limited to the weekly agendas, roll sheets,
presenters and contact information. Their term shall be two semesters (fall and
spring) plus two weeks.
Role of Public Relations:
The Public Relations person will be in charge of getting information out into
the public, this includes but is not limited to: flyers about meetings,
information about the group, finalizing speaker presentations, work as a go
between with other groups, school, organizations, and with faculty. Their term
shall be one semester plus two weeks.
Role of Treasurer:
The role of Treasurer is to keep accurate accounts of all the incoming and out
going money, and present this information weekly at the meetings. This will be
placed in a report and given to the President to be placed in the agenda for
the following meeting. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to provide all
materials to the internal auditors' office for the annual audit and to the
President for a semester audit. Their term shall be one semester plus two
weeks.
Role of Secretary:
The Secretary must take minutes at the meetings and make sure those minutes are
given to the President to be put in the agenda for the following week. Their
term shall be one semester plus two weeks.
The non-elected offices of this organization shall be:
One (1) Historian
One (1) Webmaster
Two (2) Co-mentors
Role of the Historian:
It shall be the Historians' duty to keep a scrapbook of the events the
organization takes part in and to keep a record of all past offices and
activities. Their term shall be one semester plus two weeks.
Role of the Webmaster:
It shall be the Webmasters' duty to watch over and keep up-to-date records on
the list server and the webpages. Their term shall be
one semester plus two weeks.
Role of the Co-Mentors
The Co-Mentors shall be recommended by the President and
passed by a plurality of the vote (in this instance a 2/3 vote of members
present). They shall be able to hold
other offices, for example the President, Vice President, or any other officer
may, at their own discretion, serve in both their official capacity and as a
Co-Mentor. Of the Co-Mentors, they shall
be in all instances One (1) male and one (1) female.
*No one on academic probation will be eligible to hold any
office.
Article V: Elections will be held at the end of each
semester by secret ballot. Any member(s) wishing to vote in any ballot must be
in attendance. No vote of proxy will be accepted. The same person may hold any
two offices other than the President or Vice President. In the case that there
is ever an even number voting members present, the President will only vote to
break a tie.
If any officer or voting member shall at anytime be placed on academic
probation they shall be suspended from their office if an officer, and lose
their voting privileges until a time when they have been removed from academic
probation.
Officers may be removed from their position(s) with a 3/4 vote of all voting
members for activities such as embezzlement or theft of Pride funds, abuse or
misuse of power as decided by al members, or failure to live up the standards
of this organization and its members.
If any officer should be removed or resign, their position shall be filled by
the next officer if the following order: Vice President, Public Relations, Treasurer,
Secretary. If three or more offices should be vacated
at one time then the remaining officers will fill in the space at the top of
the succession until an emergency election can take place. This election will
allow the people to be voted into the vacated spots and remaining the original
officers to take their original positions.
All members shall be allowed to make motions.
If there is a time that a committee needs to be formed, the President with the
help of the Vice President will see to its creation. This committee must be
made up of an odd number of people.
If interpretation of the constitution or by-laws should ever come into
question, then a committee comprised of no less than 5 members no more than 7
members shall be created to resolve the question. Disputing members may not be
members of this committee. Decisions of this committee may be overturned by a
3/4 vote of present members.
Any other committee may be formed and will be recognized by the organization
but will not be allocated any funding.
Article VI: Meetings of all members shall be held no more then once per week,
no less then twice per month. The purpose of these meetings should be to pass
along information and to provide a safe place for education. Meeting dates for
the next semester shall be agreed upon during the time of elections. Meeting
times may not be changed without a 3/4 vote of present members.
Article VII: A 2/3 majority of voting members will be required to amend the
constitution or by-laws.
By-Laws
1. All rules and regulations stated in the constitution must
be followed.
2. The privacy of all members shall be kept and names will not be given out.
3. Each officers' term contains a statement of plus
two weeks. During this time they will be expected to teach those coming into
their positions. If any officer is not going to return to the University to
serve those two weeks then it falls onto the President to teach those new
offices.
This Constitution has been revised pursuant to the rules
expressed herein.
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