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After Months of Debate, Council Asks for Ivy Council Reforms

Final meeting of semester honors Driskell and Burton

Speaking with rare unity, the Undergraduate Council laid down a list of grievances with the troubled Ivy Council and bade farewell to three outgoing council members in its final meeting of the semester last night.

After months of debate among council members, the council finally agreed last night to ask the Ivy Council, a group which brings together student governments from the Ivy League schools, for ten major reforms in the way it conducts business--spanning the council's finances, its planning, goals and initiatives.

"Every year we try to reform this council; every year we're stymied," said council member David B. Orr '01.

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If the Ivy Council fails to make substantial progress by the end of the spring semester the Undergraduate Council will end its permanent affiliation with the body.

"We want them to show that they're actively working with us," council member Trisha S. Dasgupta '03 said.

The council asked the Ivy Council to prepare budgets and schedules for its semi-annual conferences a month in advance, to reform its conferences and to allow non-Ivy delegates to attend conferences, among other requests.

"They are very eager to work with us," Dasgupta reported. "These are not difficult requests. They're things the Ivy Council should be doing anyways."

The council passed the resolution on a vote of 33-3, with one absentation.

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