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Ask a student what candidates for Undergraduate Council president are promising, and most will mention more student group funding, more student input in policy-making and more social events.
Looking at the council constitution and bylaws, it appears that the president's only responsibility is to appoint committee chairs. But administrative functions are a large part of the 20 to 25 hours current council President Noah Z. Seton '00 says he spends on council business every week.
"There are so many issues I wish I could speak about on the council floor, but if I did, I would be ceding the gavel every meeting," he says.
So what about the next step, finding a solution? The President wouldn't go as far as his wife, who said that gays should be allowed to openly serve, but rather said that the military should just enforce the policy as it had been intended upon its inception in 1994...
Will this, as well as other measures, such as lowering the maximum age for delegates and limiting the time a president can serve, be enough to restore the IOC's reputation? Maybe. The pressure to reform is considerable: Major corporations, such as Coke and IBM, which send the IOC $50...