Section 1: Mission Statement

As non-elected representatives of the student body, the Golden Antlers shall HELP:

1. Hear the people and the love they crave.
2. Energize our awesome website thegoldenantlers.com and Instagram.
3. Leave the big thinking to our writers.
4. Plug in the lamp in case it gets very dark.

Section 2: Global Revolution

The Golden Antlers see the struggle of the world. They hear its inchoate squeaks and the way it struggles to turn. How the pages plaster the surface of its miserable story and bubble like blisters. How its axis grinds away, the cool night never coming, how our sphere is stuck in an eternal, infernal spot. Therefore, the Golden Antlers shall make sure that our globe revolves, with some  WD-40 and a bit of elbow grease, and a Sharpie to cross out “Soviet Union.” 

Section 1: Open Writer Policy

1. Applications to the Golden Antlers are to be released once a semester, and available to any undergraduate currently enrolled at the Claremont Colleges.
2. These applications are not bound to any defined period of time, may occur more frequently, and are not limited to set periods for writer admission.
3. All prospective writers shall apply to The Golden Antlers as prescribed and in the due manner appropriate to such an organization of venerated status.

Section 2: Open Membership Limitations

1. Applicants shall be evaluated by the whole of the editing staff whenever possible.
2. A quorum, as defined in Article VIII (Quorum), is necessary to approve or deny an applicant.
3. Applicants shall be evaluated on qualitative aspects of their submitted materials. The editing staff may reject applicants on these grounds, insofar as rejection substantially allows the club to utilize its limited resources and maintain its distinct editorial voice.

Section 1: Titles and Club Leadership

1. No writer is allowed to refer to themselves as the President, Vice President, Club Advisor, Executive Officer, Events Coordinator or any similarly stupid, pretentious, power-hungry, conventional, self-aggrandizing title.
   1. Violating this ban, even in one’s own thoughts, is a crime punishable by breath. If bad breath is not a legal means of coercion, it is the job of the club to figure out another one, as close as possible to the instantaneous joy, but long-term sorrow, of garlicky green beans at Frary.
   2. There is nothing worse than a rat. Rats are large and stinky. Do you think we should get rid of rats?
   3. Provision (b) of Article III, Section 1, is not to be enforced.
2. Editor-in-chief.
   1. The Editor-in-chief shall be known as the Editor-in-chief, for purposes of mutual and easily understandable simplicity and intelligibility among, between, and amidst the various rules, regulations, decrees, memorandums, guidances, or express terms afforded to the chief executive officer of a 5C club, including but not limited to those operated under the purview of the ASPC and other Claremont Colleges student governments or relevant student codes. The Editor-in-chief can be understood as the “President” of the Golden Antlers solely for terms of nomenclature, budget coordination, and any other function which may require defined vocabulary as to the general organization of 5C clubs, or the hierarchical place the Golden Antlers occupies within them, at least to be conveyed or understood by those using noncompliant, overly wrought, and power-hungry language to describe chief executive officers, windily, as the “President.”
   2. As has been the case since 2012, executive control of the Golden Antlers is at the discretion of the Editor-in-chief. 
   3. The Editor-in-chief has ultimate discretion over editing staff and content decisions. This is an ambiguous power and one to be used lightly.
   4. At any meeting with Pomona College Administration for disciplinary, organizational, or other purposes, the Editor-in-chief shall request the following:
      • 2 x 12-oz Red Bull: Yellow Edition
      • 375mL Bottle of Espolòn Tequila
      • 2 Glasses, at least 8 oz — must not be Wine Glasses
      • Ice cubes, Container for Ice Cubes and Scoop for Ice Cubes
      • Lime for Garnish
      • Whatever Drug Killed Elvis
3. Managing Editor.
   1. The Managing Editor is the person who knows how to manage our website, social media functions, and who can keep an orderly editing process.
   2. The Managing Editor has no formal responsibilities except to burnish their shiny title with love.
4. Editors.
   1. Analogous to “Vice Presidents,” in the sense that they should know when to shut up and listen to their boss. Harry Truman.
   2. Editors are at the discretion of the Editor-in-chief and at the mercy of club elections.
   3. To provide clarification on what it means to be an “Editor” in relation to club authority, The Golden Antlers shall communicate the following sentence to anyone with questions. For purposes of interpretive purpose, the purpose of calling editors “Vice Presidents” might be purposefully useful, if the purpose of calling editors “Vice Presidents” is purposefully useful because the purpose of calling them that is to make it purposely clear that the purpose of this clause is to improve understanding the hierarchy of the Golden Antlers organization.

Section 2. Officers of the Golden Antlers Senate

The Golden Antlers Senate shall be a highly decorated body. Nose piercings, tattoos, and nail paint are encouraged. As well as hot bling!

Section 2. Character Motives and Makeup

Section 1. Definition

1. A quorum shall consist of at least the Editor-in-chief or a designated representative, the Managing Editor, and a majority of the remaining staff physically within 5 miles of the Claremont Colleges holding a position with “Editor” in their officer title. 
2. A quorum may only be conducted in-person or over video call, and cannot be satisfied through writing or any other form of non-simultaneous communication such as text.

Section 2. Quorum Required

1. A quorum is required to undertake any action initiating any review of or change to club membership.
2. A quorum is required to undertake any action initiating any review of or change to club leadership.
3. A quorum is required to undertake any action initiating any review of or change to the club budget, club expenditures, club budget proposals, or other fiscal matters.

Section 3. Quorum Not Required

1. There is no quorum requirement for conducting standard meeting business at meetings if every single member of the Golden Antlers is in the same room at one time.
2. There is no quorum requirement for any situation not encompassed by Section 1 (Settings Requiring a Quorum) of Article VIII (Quorum).

Section 1: Properties Clause

1. Upon dissolution or winding up of the Golden Antlers, its website, Instagram page, Youtube channel, and prospective seven-acre property in the heart of downtown LA shall be distributed to the officers of the Golden Antlers.
   
2. Prior to any dissolution, all records of the Golden Antlers shall be backed up to a reliable cloud service, at least four offline locations, and those records shall be given to at least the Editor-in-chief, the most recent Managing Editor, and two Editors.
   
3. Any and all assets purchased with ASPC funds shall be inherited by the ASPC. 

Section 2. End-of-year Dissolution.

1. Excepting this article (Article IX), the Golden Antlers Constitution is formally dissolved no later than the end of every academic year, and no earlier than one week before club re-registration is required. All writers, Golden Antlers senators, editors, and the Editor-in-Chief are to develop a draft constitution, with equal input ability from everyone except the Faculty Advisor, for internal organization review. 
2. The new constitution draft is to be approved by both the outgoing Editor-in-chief and the named incoming Editor-in-chief. If no draft is satisfactory, the Golden Antlers club is dissolved.

Section 3. Semi-automatic Dissolution.

1. Aside from Section 2 (End-of-year Dissolution) of Article IX (Dissolution), the Golden Antlers club shall be dissolved several minutes prior to its future weekly meeting.
2. To confirm this dissolution to the public, a website post and email to relevant officials shall be scheduled 1-15 business days or weeks (at the discretion of the Managing Editor, who shall take into account busy schedules) from the next meeting date.
3. There shall be a built-in “regret period” wherein any of the editing staff may cancel the scheduled post and email.
4. Cancellation of the scheduled and post email during the “regret period” renders any dissolution null and void, and retroactively accords any Golden Antlers action the consideration, process, and status of sanctioned club business.
5. The revocation of a cancellation of the scheduled post and email during the “regret period” may only be overturned with the written support of the majority of all the editors, as well as the Editor-in-chief. 

Section 4. Immediate Dissolution

The club may be dissolved at any time with a physically signed, written majority vote among the Editor-in-chief and editors, requiring the support of the Editor-in-chief.

Section 5. Dissolution of Derived Authorities

Any and all authorities, provisions, sentiments, and actions predicated on this Constitution, such as the Bylaws, shall be dissolved if this Constitution or club is dissolved.

Article X. Constitutional Amendments, Enforcement, and Leadership

The Golden Antlers are like the American Constitution—alive and well. We encourage a strong system of checks and balances, tempered with love for our glorious leader.

Section 1. Constitutional Enforcement

1. It is the sole responsibility of the Editor-in-chief to determine, apprehend, and enforce the Constitution unless otherwise specified.
2. Writers may bring concerns about constitutional breaches to the Committee on Constitutional Enforcement.
3. The Committee on Constitutional Enforcement shall be directed by the Editor-in-chief.
4. Appeals on decisions by the Committee on Constitutional Enforcement shall go to an impartial party, the Editor-in-chief.

Section 2. Emergency Powers

1. The Editor-in-chief can declare a state of emergency at any time. All they have to do is say, “the pinkos burned down Carnegie!” in an email to themself, and from that point onward, the Constitution may be amended in an emergency session.
2. To begin an emergency session, the Editor-in-chief must send an email to all editors.  The subject line shall include the words, “I am in charge.” Upon sending that email, the Constitution may be formally amended, except where powers have been otherwise delegated by the Constitution or Bylaws. 
3. Emergency amendments can be made by the Editor-in-chief, or in their reasonable absence or incapacity, the Managing Editor. Proposed changes are drafted and submitted to relevant people if review of such changes are formally necessary in evaluating the semiotic nature of authorities and hierarchies that may be impressed upon the club by any external governing bodies. Once the emergency-amended Constitution has been sent, the Golden Antlers Instagram account shall post a public story, with the text “constitutional crisis right now, AMA.”
4. Once posted, the emergency powers and emergency-amended Constitution are temporarily in effect. They shall be subject to formal reauthorization no later than several business days around the end of the academic year, so as not to overly inhibit the democratic nature of the Golden Antlers.
5. Should any provision in this section be found null or void, it shall not affect any other language or otherwise inhibit the ideas therein.

Section 3. Recall of Officers

Any officer of the Golden Antlers may be tested for their recall, at any time. They must complete one 25-piece jigsaw puzzle in under 30 minutes. They are to be asked who the current President of the United States is, and what day of the week President Kennedy was shot on that fateful day in Dallas.

Section 4. Initiatives and Amendments

1. Anyone with an initiative is highly valued. We love plans.
2. Amendments to this Constitution may be ratified with the written support of the majority of editing staff, as well as the Editor-in-chief. 

Section 5. Powers

All powers not delegated by the Constitution or Bylaws of the Golden Antlers shall be retained by the Editor-in-chief, recognizing that Constitutional authority is a “grey area.”

Section 6. Editor-in-chief Succession

1. The Editor-in-chief is determined by the Editor-in-chief, through their direct election.
2. Succession is an HBO show.

Section 1. Bylaws Alteration

1. Bylaws shall be made available at the start of every meeting by the Golden Antlers Managing Editor.
2. Proposed changes to the Bylaws shall be available to all writers for the Golden Antlers.
3. Changes may be proposed by any writer for the Golden Antlers.
4. Official Bylaws changes shall be forwarded to relevant approvers for approval processes including and limited to the Editor-in-chief.

Section 2. Constitutional Incongruity

1. In the event of procedural incompatibilities, a “grey area”, or confusions within or between the Bylaws and the Constitution, an impartial third-party, the Editor-in-chief, shall enforce the most proper understanding of the Bylaws as derived from the Constitution.

Section 3. Retroactive Authority

1. Any change in the Bylaws or Constitution shall have retroactive effect upon investigation by a working group of the Golden Antlers Senate. The group shall take special constitutional status and cannot be regulated by Bylaws. 
2. That group shall be the Group on Un Legalizing Antlers (Golden) (GULA[G]). 
3. GULAG shall have the authority to investigate any Bylaws violation that is suspected to have occurred.
4. The GULAG commissioner shall endeavor to remediate any formerly legal action, made retroactively illegal, with expulsion procedures. 
5. The GULAG commissioner shall be the Editor-in-chief, or in the event of their absence, an AI generated video of Grimace speaking from the prompt, “did [name] break the Bylaws?”
6. GULAG shall be limited to convening up to three times per day, the duration of each meeting being no more than 8 hours, such that GULAG business may not consume the whole day.
7. A quorum for GULAG includes and is limited to the Editor-in-chief. 

Article III. Committees

The Editor-in-chief, after musing and rubbing the hairs on their chinny chin chin thoughtfully, shall verify committee members to serve at the pleasure of the Golden Antlers Senate. 

No approval is required for committee bylaw changes, appointments, or decisions. The Editor-in-chief may overrule any committee decision, only if they notice that it happened!

1. Committee on Dining Halls

The committee shall be provisioned with enough space in the event that tubsters require lots of room for political maneuvering. It shall be chaired by the Commissioner of Dining Halls, and the chairs shall be reinforced. It shall provide formal guidance on eating and healthy habits, as well as decide what dining hall we go to after our weekly meeting.

2. Elections Committee

The elections committee is meant solely to disadvantage anyone who vaguely threatens the status quo of the Golden Antlers. It regulates the parameters of leadership succession, and is an ad-hoc committee composed of the Editor-in-chief.  The committee shall only include Golden Antlers senators who agree with the Editor-in-chief.

3. Money Committee

4. Athletics Committee

Consolation prize for Luke Brown, in perpetuity.

5. Committee on Constitutional Enforcement

The committee shall uphold the Constitution and Bylaws.