Many alterations were intended to reflect the change in the role of leadership resulting from a popular election. They included the creation of a council moderator and the division of the current single-body council into three separate branches.

Reform committee members said they were disappointed when the council, fighting weak attendance and strong opposition to the proposals, did not pass the bills by the last meeting last semester. Members were afraid the proposals would not carry over into the fall.

"Bills that will delay this to next year will kill [the reforms]," Groppi said. "Everything [the committee has] worked for will die."

Other council members said they were fruststrated with the council's lack of activity while it considered reform.

"There's a lot that can be done within our structure now," Sena said. "Everything can't be stopped just to reform the U.C."

"There was a heavy emphasis on reform and a lack of actual activity," he said. "It brought everybody to a really apathetic state."

Rawlins agreed that structural reform was not the top priority, saying, "Structure isn't everything. A good structure can do a lot, but it's the people that really make it work."

Overall, Rawlins said she was pleased with the work accomplished during the year. Shuttle bus reform, the council's work on Core reform, a 24-hour library and reform of Loker Commons were all achievements the council helped effect, she said.

However, Rawlins said one of the chief problems with the council this year was that many of its activities went unnoticed by the student body.

"There's this idea that the U.C. needs to go to the students and it's not a matter of students seeking out the U.C," Rawlins said.

Publicity of council activities and communication between students and council members will be her top priority next year, she said.

She said she hoped that representatives' new required office hours, to be held every Sunday in the dining halls, would alleviate the problem through what she called an "in your face resource."