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The mythtake of eng regular

Feds elections has announced that they believe there to be an eng regular constituency at UW. This is based on information from the Office of the Registrar that indicates 122 students who were registered in non-co-op terms.

I do not believe that this means there is an eng regular constituency according to the bylaws. If, however, it is determined by the proper authority that there is such a constituency, the bylaws should be changed to correct it because it is not practicable.

The bylaws refer to stream and not just term.

"'Constituency' shall mean the regular or cooperative stream, where each exists, of [...] each Faculty and each College having registered undergraduate students. The adjective co-op shall be applied to those constituencies which register co-op students."

• There are no non-co-op undergraduate programs in engineering.
• None or almost none of the students in this non-co-op term would be able to serve a full term of office
• Most students who take non-degree terms are still registered in their co-op programs.
• If a student takes a non-degree term instead of a work term, as some do, the eng regular reasoning would have them switching between constituencies though they did not change programs.

discussion on uwstudent.org
• Eng Regular? By Ryan Bayne
  • Software Engineering? By Jesse Helmer
    • Or international students? By Jesse Helmer
    • We're co-op By Graeme Baer
  • Yes eng regular is strange By Ryan
    • Serving a term By Jesse Helmer
      • Good point Socrates ? serving constituencies By Ryan
  • Not sure it does By Yaacov
  • Eng Regular Students Exist By Sophie Lee
    • They exist, but does a stream By Ryan