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 to 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.

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