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Election of a graduate student member of the Council: Notice

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that an election of one graduate student, elected by and from among all eligible graduate students in the University, to serve as a member of the Council (class (d)) will be held on Thursday, 3 June 1999. The election will be held in accordance with Statute A, IV, 2 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 7). The electoral roll of students eligible to vote, nominate candidates, or stand, was published on the first day of the Lent Term 1999 and copies are available for inspection at the Registry or in Colleges.

The elected student member is to serve from 1 July 1999. The election will be conducted under the Single Transferable Vote Regulations.

Voting will take place in Colleges on Thursday, 3 June 1999. The hours of voting in each College will be determined by local College Returning Officers. The polls must be open for at least four hours within the period 8.30 a.m. to 7 p.m., including the hours 12.30 to 1.30 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m.

In order to be eligible a candidate must be nominated on a nomination form sent to the Vice-Chancellor at the Old Schools so as to reach him not later than 12 noon on Tuesday, 25 May 1999. Nomination forms may be obtained from the University Registry or from the Graduate Union or CUSU. The forms contain (a) a statement, which must be signed by eight students eligible to take part in the election, certifying that they nominate the candidate for election, and (b) a statement which must be signed by the candidate consenting to be nominated. Nomination forms should be accompanied by a statement by the candidate for the information of voters.

The Vice-Chancellor will publish nominations as they are received. The complete list of nominations will be published in the Reporter on Thursday, 3 June 1999.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 12 May 1999
Copyright © 1999 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.