DEFINITIONS
Executive
Council - Two
or three members chosen by consensus or vote to administer
the day-to-day business of the team and ensure good relations
among the team members and having the additional duties described
below. The Executive Council may delegate its administrative
duties as it sees fit.
Council of
Elders - Six
or more members of the team chosen by consensus or vote to
make policy decisions regarding the team and to guard the
team's reputation and having the additional duties described
below.
Admissions Council - Three full
member active team members chosen by the Council of Elders.
Sponsorship
- The period of time during which a new member is indoctrinated
into the Team's ways by his/her sponsor.
Full Membership
-- Membership in the Team with full voting and other
privileges granted to team members; except that a person must
be a member for two months before he or she can become a sponsor
or vote on sponsorship or membership of any pledge. Acceptance
of full membership by a candidate is a representation by the
candidate that he or she is aware of all team Rules (including
the Prime Directive) and will abide by them.
ADMISSION RULES FOR NEW RECRUITS
1) A sponsor can only sponsor
one candidate until that candidate has reached full membership
status.
2) A
sponsor shall indicate a desire to sponsor a potential candidate
by adding the potential candidate's name to the Watch List,
together with the sponsor's name and any other useful information.
3) At the end of every two week
period, the team clerk will hold a vote on sponsorship of
the potential candidates on the following terms:
a) The council shall from time to time designate how many
candidates may be chosen at each two-week period.
b) The candidates with the greatest number of favorable
votes shall be admitted first.
c) No candidate may be admitted for whom fewer than 25%
of the team (excluding members who are on the official inactive
list) shall have cast favorable votes.
d) No candidate may be admitted for whom any member of
the team shall have cast an objecting vote. If a potential
candidate would otherwise qualify for sponsorship but for
an objecting vote having been cast, the potential candidate
with the next greatest number of favorable votes meeting
the requirements shall be elected in her place.
e) Each member may cast ballots for as many potential candidates
as she chooses.
f) A potential candidate does not become eligible for sponsorship
unless the potential candidate's name has been on the Watch
list for at least 4 days prior to the date ballots are cast.
4) Once the sponsorship period
begins (that is, the candidate shall have been voted for sponsorship
as per above), the sponsor shall provide the candidate with
a copy of the Prime Directive and the Discipline Rules described
below and other recruiting materials (if any), and shall explain
pledges' and members' confidentiality responsibilities with
respect to all team passwords, strategies, scripts and other
sensitive information. Once the sponsor is certain that the
candidate understands the Prime Directive and her obligation
to observe it, as well as her obligations of confidentiality,
the sponsor may inform the candidate that she may use the
"Tiny Tin Foil Hat" in front of her name (i.e.," {bz} ", which
is written in lower case letters to distinguish from full
membership.
5) After at least two weeks
and within one calendar month, the sponsor can request that
the team clerk conduct a vote on full membership. Affirmative
votes representing at least 25% of the members of the team
(excluding members that are on the official inactive list)
with no objections will be necessary for admission. One of
the votes must be from a member of the Admissions Council.
Members may only vote in favor of a candidate they have met
personally.
6) If anyone votes against membership
on the first vote or if fewer than 25% vote in favor of membership,
a second vote, not to take place for at least one week, will
be held with the same admission requirements .
7) If
anyone votes against membership on the second vote the Admissions
Council will contact the dissenting voters and then rule on
the adequacy of the candidate for admission.
8) If the council rules that
the person is not adequate, the sponsor must request that
the candidate remove her Tiny Tinfoil Hat.
9)
I f any vote is
a passing vote, the clerk shall inform the sponsor to extend
the full Tin Foil Hat to the candidate and the candidate becomes
a full member.
DISCIPLINE RULES (kick/)
1) Either
of the Executive Council or the Council of Elders may, at
such body's discretion and by majority vote, put a member
on "probation" for unsportsman-like behavior, knowing dissemination
of sensitive team assets or confidential information, or other
actions that damages the team or the team's reputation, or
for offenses against other team members. The Council of Elders
may, at it's discretion and by majority vote, also vote to
kick a member off of the team, whether on probation or not.
Either the Executive Council or the Council of Elders may
also remove probation at such body's discretion and by majority
vote.
2) In addition to the foregoing,
if a majority of the total membership of the Team votes to
kick out a member, whether on probation or not, the member
is out and a member of the Council of Elders must request
that the person remove the Tin Foil Hat from her name.
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