Section I. Elected At-Large Representatives
A) Eight Representatives shall be elected from each of the current Freshman, Sophomore and Junior classes by their respective classes in the spring term of a given academic year for service in the next academic year;
B) One Freshman Representative shall be elected from each residence cluster by no later than the third Sunday of the Fall term. The ten clusters are: the Choates, The River, Russell Sage/Butterfield/Hitchcock, the Gold Coast, Massachusetts Row, the Fayerweathers, the East Wheelock Dorms, New Hampshire/Topliff, Ripley/Woodward/Smith, and Wheeler/Richardson. Elections for Freshman Cluster Representatives shall be publicly announced to the Freshman Class at least five days before said elections are held;
C) Duties of all At-Large Representatives shall include the following:

1) To regularly consult with and inform the student body about information and issues relevant to Assembly business;
2) To serve on only one Standing Committee;
3) To regularly attend General Assembly meetings and Standing Committee meetings unless extraordinary circumstances preclude such attendance;

Section II. Appointed General Voting Members
A) General Voting Members may be added to the Assembly by the approval of a majority vote of MIAC;
B) Individual students may petition MIAC for appointment to the General Assembly by collecting the signatures of 125 Dartmouth undergraduates;
C) All petitions for membership in the Assembly must be submitted to MIAC, which shall consider said petitions on an on-going basis. MIAC shall render decisions on all petitions within three weeks of their submission;
D) Should an individual be denied membership in the Assembly, he or she may achieve automatic appointment by collecting 375 additional signatures to bring a total of 500;
E) Individuals who are given membership on the Assembly through petition shall hold that seat until the end of the following summer term;

Section III. Student Organizations Representatives
A) Each College-recognized student organization shall retain the right to send a representative, with full privileges of membership including the power to vote, to the Assembly;
B) The signature of the appropriate leadership of the organization, confirming the membership's approval of an individual to represent the organization, shall be required to seat said individual as the representative of that organization;
C) All such members shall be required, prior to their seating on the Assembly, to participate in an interview with MIAC, and answer in writing such questions in the form of an application as MIAC shall see fit to pose;
D) MIAC shall not retain the power to deny membership to any individual applying under this Section, unless such individual has already been removed from that same Assembly in a manner pursuant to Article VII;

Section IV. No student may serve as a member of the General Assembly or the Executive committee unless elected as an Assembly member, automatically appointed through the submission of 500 signatures of Dartmouth undergraduates or approved by a majority vote of MIAC;

Section V. All Assembly Members shall be allowed to vote on all issues before the General Assembly, except the President who shall only vote in the case of a tie, and any Member without voting privileges;

Section VI. The voting membership of the Assembly shall not be limited except by resolution passed by the General Assembly. In no case shall such limit be less than 50 voting members. In no case shall such limit prevent an individual, who has collected the 500 signatures necessary for automatic appointment to the General Assembly, from gaining voting membership on the Assembly;

Article III: Meetings

Section I. The Calling of Meetings
A) General Assembly meetings shall be held on a regular basis;
B)The President shall determine the regular meeting time for a given term prior the first meeting of that term;
C) Except in the case of extraordinary circumstances, there shall be no fewer than seven General Assembly meetings per term;
D) The President has the discretion to call emergency meetings of the General Assembly but Assembly members must be notified at least twenty-four hours prior to said meetings;
E) A General Assembly meeting shall be called within three days following a request signed by one-third of the Assembly membership with such request being delivered in writing to the President;
F) The date and time of each and every General Assembly meeting shall be announced to Assembly members at least twenty-four hours before the meeting is held;
G) The date and time of each and every committee meeting shall be announced to committee members at least twenty-four hours before the meeting is held;
H) No official business shall be conducted at a meeting if members are not reasonably and adequately notified of the meeting prior to it being held;
I) Meetings shall be held during reasonable hours of the day;
J) No meeting shall be held during the reading period or the final examination period;

Section II. Attendance
A) Attendance shall be taken by the Secretary at the commencement and adjournment of every General Assembly meeting. Members present for one taking of attendance and not the other shall receive one half of an absence. Members absent for both takings of attendance shall receive a full absence;
B) If a meeting does not adjourn before the time established by the By-Laws then the meeting shall be interrupted and the second and final attendance shall be taken as though it were adjournment. Afterwards the meeting may proceed.

Section III. Quom
A) An official quorum of the Assembly shall consist of a majority of its membership at the present time;
B) An official quorum for a committee shall consist of a majority of its membership at the present time;
C) No official business shall be conducted without a quorum;
D) All references to votes contained in this Constitution are based on the premise that votes shall be taken out of a majority of quorum except for those instances where it is explicitly stated to be otherwise;

Section IV. Assembly Membership
A) Assembly membership for a given term shall be defined as those active Assembly members living in Hanover or its environs for that term. Members who have lost voting privileges shall not be counted in the Assembly membership;

Section V. Rules of Order
A) All Assembly meetings shall be conducted in accordance with the Rules of Order, contained in the By-Laws of the Assembly;
B) All Assembly meetings, excluding meetings of MIAC and the Executive Committee, shall be considered open unless closed in accordance with the Rules of Order;