"I think this entire package will pass without a hitch," she said after the meeting.

Much less clear is the fate of a more substantive proposal sponsored by Jeffrey A. Letalien '01 and David B. Orr '01. The bill addresses the problem of assigning members to the council's three standing committees--CLC, the Finance Committee and the Student Affairs Committee (SAC)--in a downsized council.

In Constitutional Committee discussions, former Vice President Samuel C. Cohen '00 had noted that, in a council with three members per House and mandated representation of every House in each of the three committees, many members will not be able to serve on their first or second-choice committees.

Letalien and Orr--council members who are usually on opposite sides of contentious issues but have recently collaborated quite a bit--proposed that the problem could be remedied by letting some council members serve as full voting members of more than one committee.

The bill would allow members who had served on a committee in the past to serve on that committee again, in addition to serving on the committee on which they are placed by their House delegation's committee selection process.

Supporters of the bill used the potential plight of SAC Vice Chair Paul A. Gusmorino '02 to make their case. Because Gusmorino lives in Lowell House, where council elections are very competitive, it is possible that he will not be elected delegation chair next fall. As a result, he may not get to serve on SAC, his first choice committee.

Letalien and SAC Chair Michael D. Shumsky '00 suggested that it would be a terrible thing if SAC did not benefit next year from the experience of Gusmorino, who has spearheaded SAC projects like UC Books.