The Program

The "big stuff" this semester is mostly student service related.

Atop the list are obtaining more funds for student groups and planning this year's Springfest.

But the two also promise to address thornier College policy issues.

"While we'll still be working o n things like universal keycard access... we're also looking at larger things like advising and UHS [University Health Services] reform," Redmond says.

While the council's efforts to reverse entrenched College policies have fared poorly in the past, Seton's agenda seeks to supplement reforms initiated by the administration.

He is currently designing questions to be included in UHS's periodic survey to students, and he stresses "improving communication" with the institution.

The council's advising reform efforts will build off a recent report written by a committee chaired by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68.

"We've taken a bunch of ideas from Lewis' report and are helping him to lobby for it," Seton says.

Progressivism's Place

With student services dominating this semester's plans, some students say Redmond has strayed from her progressive roots.

"Noah and Kamil seem to be going in the same direction personally, but it seems that direction is along a less progressive road," says Shai M. Sachs '01, a member of the progressive caucus on the council.

"I don't think their victory is entirely encouraging for progressives," he adds.

But Redmond says she is still personally committed to progressive issues.

"Faculty diversity is not necessarily on our specific agenda," she says. "But...I'm working on those things on my own. They don't necessarily have to be on the Kamil Redmond-Noah Seton agenda for me to work on them."