Article Clipping, "Students' Council Adopts Rules To Regulate Student Organizations," The Minnesota Daily, October 25, 1905

Article Clipping, "Students' Council Adopts Rules To Regulate Student Organizations," The Minnesota Daily, October 25, 1905

Image of a clipping of a newspaper article titled, "Student's Council Adopts Rules To Regulate Student Organizations," edited from a digitized version of a page from the October 25, 1905 issue of the The Minnesota Daily student newspaper (page 1). The text of the article is as follows:

"For the better regulating of all student enterprises such as the University publications, University organizations, University social affairs, and other University work, the Auditing Committee, under direction of the University Council yesterday submitted the following rules to that body which were adopted:

1. The financial affairs of all student organizations or enterprises depending upon patronage of the student body or the general public shall be conducted solely in the interest of the purpose for which said organizations or enterprises are formed. Any profits accruing from the operation of such organizations or enterprises shall be kept in their treasuries for future needs or turned over to some other University organization engaged in an enterprise of general University utility. Such donations shall be made only upon the formal vote of the organization by which it is given and not until the approval of the University Auditing Board has been obtained.
2. Student organizations which do not maintain a continuous existence from year to year, assuming the liabilities of their predecessors and turning over to their successors any balance in the treasury, shall be required to settle up their accounts promptly, and dispose of any surplus that remains in accordance with rule one. Every such organization shall make a final report of its affairs to the University Auditing Board at a time arranged for with that board when its authorization for the enterprise is secured.
3. Students who give largely of their time to the service of a student organization or enterprises may be allowed a reasonable compensation in the form of salary or percentage of receipts. This compensation shall not in any case exceed the sum of forty dollars a month, save by express permission of the University Council. The among and form of this compensation shall be fixed by formal vote of the organization itself and shall be immediately reported to the University Auditing Board which shall have power to disallow the said compensation, if, in its judgement the amount or form is improper. Appeals from the action of the Auditing Board may be made to the University Council. In administering this rule the University Auditing Board shall see that the holding of several offices by a single students does not result in the securing of a compensation in excess of the maximum which a single organization may pay.
4. No student organization shall dispose of its programs, advertising space, or any privilege having a pecuniary value to persons outside the University or to individuals or to groups of individuals with the University. Such privileges shall either be retained by the organization itself and the proceeds turned into the treasury; or given gratis to some other university organization operating in the interest of the general University welfare. Such awards shall be immediately reported to the University Auditing Board, which shall have the power to interpose its veto if there is any impropriety in the transaction. Appeals may be made from the action of the Auditing Board in these matters to the University Council.
5. No student organization or enterprise shall hire the services of any press agent. The preparation of notices and items for newspapers and periodicals in order to call attention to student enterprises shall be entrusted only to press committees of students, who shall be held responsible for the character of such articles. The press committee shall be charged with the enforcement of this rule.
6. No student organization or enterprise proposing to seek financial patronage of the student body or the general public shall begin operations until it has submitted its plan to the University Auditing Board, which shall have power to refuse its sanction if the plan or purpose of the organization or enterprise is improper. If authorization is refused by the Auditing Board, an appeal may be made to the University Council.
7. The insertion in student publications of notices of liquors, drinking resorts, disreputable places of amusements or any other advertisement of a scandalous or questionable nature is forbidden. The press committee is authorized to order the withdrawal of any such advertisement which may appear and shall report the case of the offending business manager to the University Council.
8. All contracts made in behalf of student organizations shall contain the following clause: “It is hereby stipulated and agreed that the said (The name of the student organization or its authorized representatives) may withdraw from this contract, if required to do so by the University authorities or the University Auditing Board, by reason of its being in violation of University rules or sound University policy."

The Minnesota Daily Board of Editors

University of Minnesota Archives; The Minnesota Daily (MN Daily Media)

October 15, 1905

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