Last semester's Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) bill in the council proposed more support for Harvard students in ROTC and a task force to work on allowing the group back on campus.

Some students said the bill was a tacit endorsement of the discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding homosexuals in the military--a side which Dreyfus supports, if only for "practical purposes."

"I think the idea of excluding people on the basis of sexual orientation is not something we can afford to do in a state of crisis," he says.

Dreyfus appears to have responses prepared for current council issues as well, ranging from Living Wage ("I have never felt that the old barter economy, when wages in the form of sheep and goats were in fact 'living,' is something we should return to," he says) to a termbill fee increase ("Increasing it to $50 smacks of tokenism," he claims, suggesting that the whole of each student's yearly tuition go directly to the council).

But his opinion on council downsizing, an issue appearing on this week's ballot, is more abstract.

"I think it's important for a president to have a consensus," he says thoughtfully. "I'm for downsizing not by numbers, but by specific people."

He refuses to name names, but he rapidly explains his downsizing vision in mysterious language.

"I will call upon student group support and forcibly expel those who should not be there--who do not believe in what is right," he says unwaveringly.