Students are slated to vote today on whether leaders of Student Congress should receive stipends from student fees.
The Student Code's Title I, also known as the Student Constitution, states that "no Student Congress member shall be entitled to a salary."
But the speaker of Congress and the speaker pro tempore have received stipends in recent years, anyway.
Speaker Charlie Anderson and Speaker Pro Tem Jen Orr have been offered stipends for their work this year but have declined to accept their checks.
Although there has been some debate as to whether a stipend constitutes a salary, Congress resolved in September to place a referendum on the Homecoming ballot and to allow students to make the final decision to clarify the Code.
The text of the referendum that will show up on today's ballot on studentcentral.unc.edu will read as follows:
"Currently all members of Student Congress are prohibited from receiving any form of compensation. The passage of this referendum would make an exception to this provision to allow for the speaker and speaker pro tempore to receive compensation.
"Passage of this referendum would amend Title I, Article I, Section 4V of the Student Code to read:
"'No Student Congress member, except the speaker and speaker pro tempore, shall be entitled to monetary compensation.'"
