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Article I: General

Article I: General

Section 1. Definitions

A. For the remainder of these By-Laws, the Undergraduate Senate shall be abbreviated US.

B. The Association legislative bodies shall be the US and GSC.

C. References to the Senate by any internal or external document, without specifically referring to the Undergraduate Senate, shall be construed as the Association legislative bodies.

D. The undergraduate population shall be those members of the Association who are registered as undergraduates, as well as those coterminal students who choose to be considered as undergraduates.

E. The graduate population shall be all members of the Association in graduate or professional degree programs, as well as those coterminal students who choose to be considered as graduate students.

F. An Undergraduate Senate agency shall refer to any administrative unit under the sole control of the Undergraduate Senate.

G. An Association agency shall refer to any administrative unit under the joint control of the US and GSC.

H. A joint Association entity shall refer to any body of the Association that affects both the graduate and undergraduate populations. This shall not include the US and GSC, considered as separate legislative bodies.

I. The elected members of the US shall be the fifteen individuals elected by the undergraduate district.

J. The voting membership of the US shall consist of the elected members plus the Vice President of the Association.

K. The membership of the US shall be the voting members and all ex-officio members of the US.

L. An undergraduate student organization shall refer to any student organization whose membership and/or audience is drawn substantially from the undergraduate population.

M. A graduate student organization shall refer to any student organization whose membership and/or audience is drawn substantially from the graduate population.

N. Elected members of the GSC shall be those who were selected in either a special or general Association election.

O. A member of the GSC shall be any member of the graduate population present at a GSC meeting.

P. Unless otherwise specified, a vote of the GSC shall be a vote by voting members of the GSC only.

Q. The term ex-officio as used by any internal document, including the Constitution and all By-Laws, shall be construed as meaning "non-voting."

R. The executive officers of the Association shall consist of the President, the Vice- President, the Chair of the US, the Deputy Chair of the US, the Chair of the GSC, the Financial Officer of the GSC, the Chair of the Constitutional Council, and the Financial Manager. The officers of the Association shall consist of the executive officers plus the members of the US, the voting members of the GSC, and the members of the Constitutional Council.