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'''College Council''' is the student government organization at Williams. Its website is [http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/cc/ http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/cc].
Ordinarily led by two co-presidents, it includes student representatives of each class, neighborhood, and first year dorm. Council also has a Treasurer, MinCo representative, Secretary and representative from each neighborhood's governance board.
College Council's three most important functions are:
CC also appoints all students to the [[student faculty committees]]. These selections take place in the middle of the spring semester. For a list of committees, see the CC website's list of [http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/cc/committees.php committees]. For students interested in applying for committee positions, please read the guide for writing a good [[self-nom]].
==Elections== College Council elections for the Spring 2008 term will occur February 14-15. ===Voting=== The election will be conducted using the BigPulse electronic election system. *Everyone will receive a link to his/her electronic ballot via his/her Williams.edu email address.*This election will use '''Instant Runoff Voting''' (IRV). This means that in races with more than two candidates, voters will be asked to order the candidates by preference.**If any candidate gets more than 50% of the first-choice votes, that candidate wins.**If no candidate gets more than 50% of the first-choice votes, the first-choice votes that went to the candidate who did worst will be reallocated to their second choices. This process will repeat until a candidate has won with more than 50% of the vote. ==Projects===
College Council works on [http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/cc/projects/ projects] suggested by the representatives or members of their constituencies, and has assisted in the success of such projects as bringing [[Ephporium]] to [[Spring Street]] and the [http://www.williamstransport.org/ Motorcoach service].
* In the spring of 2006 College Council reps accomplished the projects listed here: [[Stuff CC has done]].