Freeman said Haynes had promised in elections for the chair of the committee to act as a facilitator for the views of other committee members rather than to pursue her own agenda, but had violated that promise.

"She very clearly has her own agenda and tries to get her own agenda passed," Freeman said in an interview before the resignation.

Haynes said she had tried to fulfill her role as facilitator, but a lack of cooperation by other committee members prevented her from helping them.

Other committee members were not including her in the process of developing new ideas or bringing forth legislation, Haynes said.

"I have not yet been asked to help people speak with the administration in any way," Haynes said. "My style is to help both sides if I can. I can't because I don't know both sides."

Haynes also charged that other committee members had been going over her head by communicating with administration directly rather than going through the proper committee structure. As a result, they undermined the relationship of the committee with the faculty and administration, she said.

"People have misrepresented what I have done or said to the administration and faculty," Haynes said. "On a number of occasions I've had to go into faculty meetings and explain what's going on and apologize."

"The administration is seeing a committee divided into two camps, and there's no reason for it to pay attention to either. This is not an effective way to get things done," she added.

According to Freeman, a majority of the Student Affairs Committee now believes the only way to affect positive change in the University is to go outside of the committee's normal lobbying tactics and use new techniques.

"I personally would be willing to trade all the Student Affairs Committee has done for a single substantive reform on a major issue," Freeman said. "I think too many older members of the U.C. are overly concerned with remaining on the administration's Christmas card list and not with making substantive change."

Haynes said she felt the new tactics being used, such as petitions, protests and rallies, have their place, but should not supersede the normal channels of interaction between the committee and the University.

"Unless we merge the protests and rallies with the committee positions we hold, we will be at a disadvantage with both--nothing will change for students on campus and the committee will be as ineffective as it has ever been," Haynes said.

Haynes criticized those who advocate these more activist efforts as not taking the time to think through issues and form concrete plans for how to implement the reforms they seek.

"We are no longer making the hard decisions and coming up with plans," she said. "We are making demands and then demanding they be implemented at any cost."

Haynes also said the issues being tackled by many members of the committee are not directly relevant to most students but rather only appeal to a small minority.