The Society's Place On the Local Campus

The National Constitution of the Society has been established in the broadest possible fashion to allow each local chapter to establish, within the rules and regulations at that campus, the organization which best fits the needs of the local situation. Therefore, on some campuses, the Society is a "true" scholarship honor organization with a grade-point requirement being the primary criterion for membership. On other campuses, it is designated as an "honorary" organization with other membership criteria, and on still other campuses, it is the publications' "club" with social functions as a primary goal.

The broad diversity of local chapter structures has strengthened the impact of the Society at the colleges and universities where chapters have been established. The Society cannot be all things to all members, but its individual campus chapters can, through organization, structure and goals, create the local Society chapter in the fashion best suited to that particular college or university.

The local chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists could well be the clearinghouse for the problems of all campus communications. Meetings could be devoted frequently to consideration of possible disputes between staffs, to constructive criticism of each communications medium when necessary, and to suggestions for improvement in financial supervision and rules governing the election and selection of media staffs.

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