C. Hecht wrote:
Tex McSwain wrote:
I am still looking for the part of the rules that allows Cabinet Members and the President to extend their own terms of office without notice to the Club and without any given reason or explanation. Now you rush to update the Cabinet's Terms? Seems to me that would fall under the category of actions "disruptive to the good order and functioning of the club."
For this you should open a new thread. Election are not held parallel and are done by only a few people, that this takes time now more then ever should be obviously.
Besides this, the cabinet is surely not "extending" their terms because they want to. Or would you prefer that they just drop the mic and leave the others only handling cabinet stuff?
Quaama wrote:
The bolded portions hereunder are new and specific.
2.6.5.1 Members who were expelled from the club may ask to be reinstated by the cabinet after one year. They must receive a unanimous cabinet vote to be reinstated. A member who is reinstated would return at the rank of Second/Field Lieutenant and given 15 points. Any previously expelled member reinstated by the Cabinet is ineligible to hold any elected position within the club and may not hold a command above Corps level. The cabinet will consider exceptions for Academy or War College Commandant and Chief of Staff Positions on a case-by-case basis. After one calendar year, the reinstated member may petition the cabinet to have all command and elective restrictions removed. A unanimous vote of the cabinet is required to remove all restrictions. This ruling is retroactive to 01 MAY 1997.
Ok the probation is indeed new, but the current 2.6.5 already notes the need for a unanimous Cabinet vote to be reinstated. The probation will work here as a 2 step method that may very well allow the cabinet to reinstate someone, but just not yet let them fool with high ranking command duties. The current one step method will surely force the cabinet to decline applications to be reinstated because they may fears once that person is back he can cause trouble. All in all the new ruling is an improvement for expelled members, not something that makes it harder to come back.
Besides this, that the ruling is retroactive will hit members that were expelled, that it would hit those that already have been reinstated is a very "creative" way of interpreting the new rules, I don't see that at all.
Yes, current rules require an unanimous vote to be reinstated but this new rule then introduces a 'probationary' period [new] that includes restrictions on elected positions and command [also new]. It is also important to note that the way it is written means that the
- there is no upper limit on how long they may last. As I said, it would only take one member of the cabinet to frustrate the process. Also, those on the cabinet who unanimously agree to reinstate such a person will not necessarily be there after a year or more has elapsed so it will be imposing upon such a person the need to petition on two separate occasions to gain standard rights that are afforded to every other member.
I do not think I was especially creative in interpreting the statement on the ruling being retroactive and think it can definitely be read that way because that is what it says. If the intention was to include any member expelled prior to such a rule being introduced then that would occur without the need for the 'retroactive sentence'. Any expelled member seeking to rejoin the club would be rejoining under any rules that exist at the time of their application to rejoin (not those that may have existed at the time of their expulsion).