Pryor dissolved the SAC and created a student programming committee that complemented the IOP staff members, and although some students were outraged, they overcame their dissapointment and helped Pryor as he decided on the interim government that was instituted this semester.

This semester, six students were also elected to the Task Force and charged with the responsibility to research a more permanent structural organization to the IOP.

And despite the difficulty of this task, both students and staff report that the IOP has been functioning effectively.

Attendance at IOP events has been high and tensions that once existed between students and staff members have died down, says student programming committee president Robert F. McCarthy '02.

"There used to be tensions when staff and students disagreed about programming, but this semester we've carried out all the programs very smoothly," McCarthy says. "There hasn't been any need for tension--we were all in it for the same reasons."

But the temporary nature of the interim government has created an element of instability at the institute.

"This is definitely a semester of transition," says Heather A. Woodruff '03, who was elected a member of the task force. "But given the transiton that we're undergoing, things are going very well."