The Student Council constitution is something seldom discussed until this year when the members decided it was in need of a revamp. 

Sophomore class president Omar Hamarshi and student body president Amber Briere discuss the changes to the school constitution. 

The constitution amendments were prompted by an issue with Homecoming royalty and non-anonymous voting during student council meetings. 

“Someone not in [Student Council] came in to pitch the idea that we should consider redesigning the homecoming royalty system to be more inclusive of those who might not fit into the defined gender categories,” Hamarshi said. “The issue with the proposition was how people were worried with how it might change the voting system for royalty. Many of these people who would have voted no on the change were afraid of the repercussions of saying that in a non-anonymous environment, skewing the results of the vote.” 

From this incident, Student Council realized that a change in the voting process was needed. 

“We decided that we were going to not only revote,” Briere said. “But also redo all of the process that was set before so that we had strict boundaries that would affect this vote and future votes.”

Furthermore, Student Council had the realization that the student council constitution required changes in multiple different gray areas.

“​​The end goal of the mandate of the student council constitution was to create more guidance within the rules,” Briere said. “The rules we had before were very vague and could be taken in many different ways. So we tried to put more specifics and the parts that we didn’t have rules on, create rules.”

The tardiness and absences of Student Council members has long been an issue, but the amendments now include regulations against that.

“People miss a lot of Student Council meetings, and that wasn’t really being tracked,” Hamarshi said. 

After making changes to the constitution, Student Council feels confident that for the foreseeable future, no more changes will be made.

“I hope they continue to use this in future years and they don’t have to amend it again,” Briere said. “We put a lot of hard work into it and made some significant changes.”

The Student Council constitution is something seldom discussed until this year when the members decided it was in need of a revamp. 

Sophomore class president Omar Hamarshi and student body president Amber Briere discuss the changes to the school constitution. 

The constitution amendments were prompted by an issue with Homecoming royalty and non-anonymous voting during student council meetings. 

“Someone not in [Student Council] came in to pitch the idea that we should consider redesigning the homecoming royalty system to be more inclusive of those who might not fit into the defined gender categories,” Hamarshi said. “The issue with the proposition was how people were worried with how it might change the voting system for royalty. Many of these people who would have voted no on the change were afraid of the repercussions of saying that in a non-anonymous environment, skewing the results of the vote.” 

From this incident, Student Council realized that a change in the voting process was needed. 

“We decided that we were going to not only revote,” Briere said. “But also redo all of the process that was set before so that we had strict boundaries that would affect this vote and future votes.”

Furthermore, Student Council had the realization that the student council constitution required changes in multiple different gray areas.

“​​The end goal of the mandate of the student council constitution was to create more guidance within the rules,” Briere said. “The rules we had before were very vague and could be taken in many different ways. So we tried to put more specifics and the parts that we didn’t have rules on, create rules.”

The tardiness and absences of Student Council members has long been an issue, but the amendments now include regulations against that.

“People miss a lot of Student Council meetings, and that wasn’t really being tracked,” Hamarshi said. 

After making changes to the constitution, Student Council feels confident that for the foreseeable future, no more changes will be made.

“I hope they continue to use this in future years and they don’t have to amend it again,” Briere said. “We put a lot of hard work into it and made some significant changes.”