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. The Student Council has been trying to formulate a ' new set of laws for several years. 'lhis year's Council has repeatedly found itself held up, mystified, or Completely frustrated by the preset Constitution, which is out of date and poorly framed. -. Certain provisions in the Constit—

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FREDERIC'IUN (CUP) — Studi— ents at the University of New Brunswick voted 681 to 644 to terminate their mem- bership in the. National Union of Students in a ref— erendum here Oct. 20.

The referendum was the third NUS vote at the cam— pus in as many years, with 1,338 students, about 27 pe per cent of the university casting votes. '

Jim Murray, president of the LNB's students' repre— sentative council, said he . was very pleased with the referendum results.

According to NUS execu— tive-secretary Dan O'Connor, however, one of file reasons the referendum failed is that Murray withheld infor-. mation on NUS from students.

and council. ' O'Connor saidrthe cam-

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paign was "really dirty" with anti-NUS people in— cluding falsehoods in articles submittedpto the student newspaper. The paper did not correct

'these, he said.

Murray said he called the referendum bean he felt the organization was a

'wastezo'f money and accom—

plished nothing. Murray has been quoted in the campus newspaper, the B‘Funswickan, as saying [NB NUS fees were $55,000. [NB NIB fees are $5,700.

He said he didn'tbelieve believe ther was much sup— port' for the national union at INB, adding "the (NB NIB committee didn't exist." Murray said the pro-NIB campaign was run entirely by NUS employees.

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finally receive a badly needed overhaul this semester. A committee" of the Student Council, led by Chairman Maurice Rogerson, will review the constitution, propose certain amendments before a general meeting of the Union, and hopefully frame a new and more efficient document.

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O'Connor said the loss of fees from [NB will af- fect NUS because its budget is "really tight." However, he doubted the loss of UNB would be as serious‘as it might have been because the campus has been steadily isolating itself during the past year.

The student council has already dropped out of the Atlantic Federation of Stu— dents and the BRUNSWICK/1N has withdrawn frcm Canadian University Press, the na- tional press organization.

‘ 'IWo previous referendums have been held at UNB — the first in 1975 approved NUS membership by a slight margin,» the second in Oc— tober, 1976 reaffirmed mem- bership by just more than

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'Ihe new ccmmittee will spend approximately 3 to 4 weeks reviewing and form- ulating proposed amend— ments. In late November or early December, a general meeting will be called at which time the proposed amendments will be released, discussed and voted upon. I

The committee has decided

'I to hold closed meetings,

simply because they wish

‘to present the proposals to '

Council before releasing them to the general student body.

Copies of the present constitution are available in the Student Union office. Comments or sugg— estions for proposed amendments are most wel- ccme, and the committee

is hoping to have as much input as possible from the students. If you have any suggestions, see Kevin Gauthier in the Union office. Other committee members are

" Gordie Coffin, Derek Key,

Gail Murphy and Larry Currie.

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