Adopted April, 2003

STANDING RULES (Not being voted upon by membership, but published to show how the by-laws might be implemented.)

1. Election of the Steering Committee.

1. Nominations for membership on the Steering Committee can be made by any voting member of the Region (as defined by the By-laws and standing rules of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges).
2. The slate to be voted upon will be included with the slate of officers  in the ballot  presented at the spring meeting .
3. Nominees must be voting members of the South Central region.
4. Steering committee members elected by the steering committee shall include
           Immediate past, and immediate future approved conference chairs
           Current conference chair(s)
           Future conference chairs
           The number of conference steering committee members shall not exceed 17 members
5. It is important that a steering committee member attend the annual conference. If the member misses two consecutive steering committee meetings, the office will be deemed vacated.

2. Officers of the Steering Committee.

1. A chair person of the steering committee will be elected by simple majority of the steering committee at the Steering Committee meeting held in conjunction with the regional conference. That person will serve as chair until the next annual regional conference.
2. A vice-chair will also be selected in a similar manner.
   
3. Recording secretary who will be the immediate past conference chair.

3. Conference Committee

1. The Regional Conference Committee shall consist of the elected steering committee and a local arrangements committee. The conference Chair will be from the local arrangements committee.


2. Local arrangements include responsibility for hotel, banquet, meeting room, student papers, vendor areas, transportation and liaison to Steering Committee.
3. Members of the Steering Committee shall assume the following roles:
           Panels/Workshop/Tutorials/ BOF Chair
           Speaker/Vendor Chair
           Publicity Chair
           Papers Chair  (elected by steering committee)
           treasurer* appointed by conference  chair with approval of steering committee
           conference registrar* appointed by conference chair with approval of steering committee
   *cannot be same person
    

4.  The Steering Committee will appoint a Web-master to maintain the SC regional web site and to maintain liaison with the Consortium Web-master.  James McGuffee is the appointed web-master.

5.  It is highly desirable that at least two states be represented on the steering committee.

6.  Steve Dannelly is papers chair 
     Amardeep Kahlon is conference chair 2004
     RW McCarley is immediate past conference chair 2003
     Kay Kussman is immediate future conference chair 2005
     Nancy Cameron's is the regional representative to CCSC
     John Howland's term expires in 2004
     Stewart Carpenter's term expires in 2004* (Carpenter's unexpired term is currently filled by James McGuffee)
     Jan and Johnny Carrolls' term expires in 2004
     Ken Hartness's term expires 2005
     Charlotte Busch's term expires in 2005
     Bill Denny's term expires in 2005
     Mike Asoodeh term expires in 2006
     John Fernandez term expires in 2006
     Barbara Owens's term expires in 2006  (Owens is treasurer for 2004)