The proposal focused on maximizing student involvement in the IOP through a democratic process of electing the student leaders.

SAC leaders are currently chosen by the out-going SAC leaders from the preceding year.

Under the new student proposal, all undergraduates who have completed the requirement of attending two-thirds of the meetings for one IOP committee will become an IOP member. All members would be allowed to vote or run for president, vice-president, chairs of the committee, or Student Leadership Board at-large representatives.

"Before, [the selection of SAC members] was not a very fair process," Flores said. "There were many people very involved in IOP who weren't on SAC, and conversely there were many people who were on SAC who weren't very involved in IOP."

"We hope to make the new IOP student organization democratic from top to bottom," he said. "All members of IOP will be given the decision-making power."

The IOP members emphasized the need to maintain a central student organization within IOP even after the dissolution of SAC.

Consciously creating a parallel between the discussion meeting and the Constitutional Convention, Batty criticized Pryor's vision of an IOP comprised of a series of committees but no central executive student body as "something like the Articles of Confederation, a beast without a head."