"Everything is geared towards a more visible council," she says.

Council members will table in their dining halls rather than holding weekly office hours in the council's Holworthy Hall office.

Under stricter attendance policies, council members will be allowed to miss only miss four meetings--no more than two committee meetings and no more than two full meetings.

Driskell also hopes to increase accountability by assembling a "Week of Dialogue" this month, with a variety of activities, speakers and forums centered around a particular topic.

She says she will model the week's events on the popular panel several years ago at which star professors debated affirmative action before a packed Sanders Theatre.

But her council will also have to make due with fewer dollars.

Council members say the $20 term bill fee--used to fund student groups since 1983--is no longer sufficient meet demands on the council's budget. A referendum to raise the term bill fee to $50 failed by 80 votes last year in the same election that cut the council in half.

For the past two years, the council has been relying on $40,000 found in an inactive account to supplement its meager term bill resources. Now the fund is depleted again.