ECO Constitution
[updated January 2000]

Article I name

Section I
        The name of this organization shall be 
Environmental Consciousness Outreach.

Article II
Purpose

Section I
        The purpose of the Environmental Consciousness Outreach is 
to increase environmental awareness through both education 
and action. The goal of environmental awareness is to think 
of the global environment as interlinked and to understand 
the effects of our individual and collective actions upon 
the global environment. ECO will strive to raise the 
awareness of both the Tufts community and the surrounding 
area.
        Education within the Tufts community will take place 
through means open to the general public. These educational 
events will include, but not be limited to, symposiums, 
forums, discussions, lectures, films, meals, talks or 
speakers. The focus of these events will be to educate 
those attending to be responsible, aware decision makers 
regarding personal and political environmental decisions. 
        Education within the surrounding area will focus upon 
non-partisan environmental education of primary and 
secondary school students. These education events may 
include, but are not limited to, workshops, classes, nature 
hikes, films, readings, and speakers.
        Actions taken to protect the environment will be non-
violent, but will follow along the lines of civil 
disobedience developed by Thoreau, Gandhi, and King. 
Action may consist of, but not be limited to: sit-ins, 
demonstrations, picketing, boycotting or leafleting.
        Environmental Consciousness Outreach is a non-partisan 
organization. Effort will be taken to insure the political 
neutrality of the organization. In addition, the group is 
also to stay unstructured. Bureaucracy and unwieldy 
hierarchy is to be avoided.
        Environmental Consciousness Outreach is committed to 
using both education and action to achieve heightened 
environmental awareness.

Article III
Membership

Section I
        Membership shall be open to any undergraduate member 
of the Tufts community who has paid the Student Activities 
fee.

Article IV
Meetings

Section I
        Meetings will be held on a weekly basis during the 
academic year.

Section II
        Decisions at all meetings regarding any action or 
future actions of the group, or regarding the philosophy of 
the group, shall be reached by consensus of all present 
members.

Article V
Officers and Elections

Section I
        The officers of the organization shall be the 
Chairperson(s), Treasurer(s), E-Mail and Voice Mail 
Coordinator(s), and/or Secretary(s). The number of persons filling each position 
shall be decided upon by the member present at the time of 
nominations.

Section II
        The Chairperson(s) shall facilitate all meetings and 
shall have the authority to act on behalf of the 
organization when matters require immediate action.

Section III
        The Treasurer(s) shall keep all financial records and 
shall take responsibility for preparation of the budget.

Section IV 
        The E-Mail and Voice Mail Coordinator(s) shall manage 
the ECO E-mail account and shall be responsible for 
notifying members o meetings and events through E-mail 
and/or phone messages.  The Secretary(s) shall take notes of meetings and other events 
as well as maintain the ECO web site http://www.tufts.edu/~eco/.
These two positions may be combined if necessary.

Section V
        Elections will be held during the last full month of 
each semester. In the event of a tie, discussion shall 
ensue among the voting members and there shall be another 
vote until the tie is broken.

Section VI
        In the case that any member feels that an officer is 
failing got adequately fulfill his/her duties, that member 
shall bring his/her concerns to the officer. If the problem 
is not resolved, the member shall then petition to have the 
officer replaced. A vote of three-quarters of the regular 
voting members will be needed to relieve the officer of 
his/her position.

Section VII
        In case of an office becoming vacant during the 
semester, elections will be held two weeks from the meeting 
in which such vacancy becomes known.

Section VIII
        A simple majority vote of all regular voting members 
will be needed to be elected.

BY LAWS

Article I
Membership

Section I
A voting member is one who has paid his or her dues and has 
attended at least two regular meetings during the academic 
year.

Article II
Amendments

Section I 

        Any regular voting member may propose an amendment on 
the first meeting of each month. 

Section II
        The vote will be held two weeks from the date of 
proposal.

Section III
        A three-fourths vote of regular members is necessary 
for the amendment to pass.

Section IV
        The amendments must be in compliance and approved by 
the Tufts Community Union Judiciary.