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Preamble

Student participation in College Governance is crucial because students bring a perspective that is imperative to the decision making process on matters which affect the student body and college community as a whole. Using a process of advising, consulting and seeking consensus – both within the Earlham Student Government, as well as in interactions with the student body, administration, faculty and staff- students have the opportunity to participate in the College Governance Structure, and thus help shape the Earlham community.

The main duties of the Earlham Student Government are as follows:

To represent the student body in the College Governance Structure and serve as a communications link between students and the various bodies within that structure.

To seek student opinion to either channel it to the appropriate college committee, or to use it to make informed decisions on campus policy recommendations when delegated such authority.

To provide a setting in which various student leaders within the Earlham Student Government can communicate with one another, formulate policy recommendations on community issues, and make decisions that affect the processes of the Earlham Student Government.

To provide and/or fund student activities and services.

To follow the Principles and Practices that shape and sustain the Earlham College Community, which include respect for persons, integrity, simplicity, peace and justice and the Quaker tradition of consensus decision-making. The Earlham Student Government uses these Principles and Practices to guide their decisions in the political arena. They are never guided by political partisanship.

The Students of Earlham College, fully aware of what precedes, and in order to achieve the purposes of THEIR Government, adopt what follows.

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