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THE
PURPOSE OF THE COGS shall be to provide a physical area and location for Native
Graduate Students to meet and discuss these collective goals:
- Enhance the education and
intellectual experience of Native graduate students as well as the
University in General.
- To work in conjunction
with the Native American Peoples Alliance on issues and events that pertain to modern Native existence within
the University setting.
- To actively recruit and
retain Native students to the University through the positive use of
such an organization
- To actively pursue social
issues that pertain to Native peoples
worldwide as well as within the University community on the graduate
level.
- To actively pursue the
destruction of negative stereotypes of Native peoples through the
use of positive programming and social events on the University
level.
- To work in conjunction
with all other GSA clubs to achieve these goals.
- To provide a link between
the GSA, Native Studies program of the Department of American
Studies, and the Native communities represented within COGS.
THE
COUNCIL of Ongwehonwe Graduate Students accepts as members all
graduates and undergraduate students interested in the pursuit of the
goals found in the COGS Constitution. All Graduate members shall have
voting privileges on matters presented for their considerations.
NATIVE
THOUGHT PHILOSOPHY rarely accepts a hierarchy in terms of government. In this way,
we shall be named a council of graduate students because all voices have
the same power. For the purposes of GSA, The Council of Ongwehonwe Graduate Students will adopt a standard
form of organization: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and
Secretary. In times, when there are few Native graduate students to fill
these positions, COGS will create a joint position of
Secretary-Treasurer. There shall be an annual election meeting where
these positions will be filled by a consensus decision.
COGS
CONSTITUTION is
subject to change by unanimous approval of the general membership.
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