The Constitution Committee, a group,unaffiliated with the council, that is workingindependently to propose alternativeconstitutional reforms, is proposing a moreradical measure to reduce the total membership onthe council.

Niko Canner '94, a former council member whoco-founded the committee, says his group is hopingto reduce the council to about 60 percent of itscurrent size by allowing only three delegates perdistrict.

"If you cut the number of representatives fromfive to three, you can still perform most of theessential tasks," Canner says. "And there wouldbe a smaller, more cohesive council."

"It's unfortunate that [members of all levelsof activity] have equal representative power,"Canner adds.

Most council members, however, strongly opposesuch a dramatic reduction.

Sayeed calls the measure "Iudicrous."

"With a solution of internally kicking peopleoff, then you suffer the potential of being apolicy committee, lacking manpower to get anythingdone," Sayeed adds.

"I'm strongly against it," says Justin C. Label'97, vice chair of the student affairs committee."The problem is that many of the hardest workingpeople I knew weren't in the top three of theirdistrict."

But Hillary K. Anger '93-94 disputes themanpower charge as a "fake argument, because thefact is that few people do the work now anyway."

"I think people are afraid to cut the size ofthe U.C. because they're afraid they won't getelected," adds Anger, who is the other co-founderof the Constitutional Committee.

Bonfili suggests that students who are notelected members could do work that does notnecessarily need to be done by therepresentatives.

For example, he suggests, students who wantedto organize concert for the campus could form aclub and get funding from the council.

Students then wouldn't be forced ontocommittees to do work they are not completelywilling to do, Bonfili says.

Removing one delegate from each house alsopresents problems, say council members.

In addition to the loss of able workers, theremoval of the delegate with the fewest votes--whomay not be the least hardworking--seems "arbitraryand unfair," Sayeed says.