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Last Updated:
July 9, 2003

Historical Note

This Constitution was passed by the Assembly of the Graduate Student Government on May 31, 2000. The By-Laws were passed on that date, with the exception of Article VII which was passed on July 27, 2000, and By-Law Article III, Clauses 5 and 7, which were amended on October 24, 2000. The Graduate Student Body, after balloting during September and October, ratified the Constitution on November 1, 2000 by a margin of 726 votes in favor to 245 against. This Constitution replaced the original Constitution of the Graduate Student Union and Graduate Student Government (as amended) which was originally ratified in 1989.

Five amendments to the By-Laws were adopted by the GSG Assembly on February 20, 2002, all dealing with elections. Three further amendments were adopted March 12, 2003, dealing with appointment of Acting Officers, abolishing runoffs in Officer elections, and changing the method of electing CPUC representatives. Two amendments were unanimously adopted on April 9, 2003, formally adding the Programs in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Population Research to the list of academic units and establishing an annual system for the transfer of budgetary surpluses to the GSG endowment.