"It's difficult to judge what we've done this semester by the first six meetings," Rawlins says. "I would call it a success in the making."
"More of the activity is focused on Some other council members agree. Nicola A. McKinney '99, for example, says a Rawlins presidency will succeed in supporting services, gender issues and safety. "Lamelle is constantly more aware of those issues. She tries to reach out more to women and minorities," says McKinney. Hulse adds that Rawlins has a great deal of support in the council. "There is a large group on the council that is very solidly behind their program," says Hulse, who lauds Hyman and Rawlins' creation of the council's executive cabinet. The cabinet is composed of ten directors, each of whom are charged with pursuing one of the ten points in "A Students' Bill of Rights." "The executive cabinet is the living embodiment of the Bill of Rights," Rawlins says. "It's worked smoothly and only supplemented the existing structure." Hulse says the executive cabinet has allowed new members to play an influential role on the council soon after joining. "Most of the new members who are very involved are part of this executive cabinet," he says. But Rawlins' opponents say that involvement in the council has declined since last year because of the factionalism that Hyman and Rawlins' leadership has fostered. "This year the factions are made up of very small numbers of students," says Nelson, a Crimson editor who is the chair of the council's Student Affairs Committee. "Most of the council sits by and watches as they fight amongst each other," he says. Some council members now say that Rawlins has been designated to continue the program that she and Hyman began into the next election. "People still see them as one and the same," Passante says. And while Rawlins hasn't moved to separate herself from Hyman's legacy, she has promised to finish the job that she and Hyman started last spring