Sen. David Pryor, director of the Institute of Politics (IOP), announced yesterday the structure of the interim student board that will advise the IOP this year.

Last month, Pryor disbanded the IOP's Student Advisory Committee (SAC), which had previously advised the IOP administration, saying the body was too insular.

The plan, which Pryor announced in a mass e-mail message, calls for one president, new committee chairs for the seven IOP committees and a task force that will be charged with devising a more permanent student advisory structure.

The task force on the structure of future student advisory boards will include three appointed staff members, three students who have graduated before 2000 and six elected undergraduates--two each from the first-year, sophomore and junior classes.

Elections to the new board will be held next Monday and Tuesday. Students will be eligible to vote for the interim chairs of committees for which they have attended at least half of the year's meetings. All of those students, as well as former members of SAC and former senior associates, will be able to vote for the president and for members of the task force.

Pryor said he was pleased with the plan, which he said incorporated feedback he gained at his meetings with students in the weeks following his dissolution of SAC on Nov. 9.

"The reaction so far has been very favorable," Pryor said. "I've received several phone calls, and spoken to several students. We're all excited."

Current SAC members expressed mixed feelings about the structure.