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...Undergraduate Council is "not just student government; it's student government with direct input into the University governing structure," explains Chairman Richard S. Eisert...
Undergraduates often aren't aware of the "intimate link" between the council and the administration, Eisert says...
...close to a third of the council's budget this year, he evidently is not adequate to the task of keeping a three-room office filled with typed documents. So the council employs a second office staffer, Tara Deal '87, a work-study student. Deal's job, Chairman Eisert says, is to make sure the council meets deadlines with the IRS, Holyoke Center, and banks. And he says she doesn't cost undergraduates any money...
...reason for this, he explains, is that Deal's employment will be terminated the day she stops being "cost effective," which is to say as soon as she stops finding errors more costly than her salary. What Eisert doesn't explain is why it wouldn't be more "cost effective" for one of the elected officers of the council to watch the student government's accounts...
This evidently didn't mean as much to Eisert, who succeeded Offutt at the mid-point of Melendez's reign as executive secretary. Eisert says he wanted to save money and looked for a work-study student to replace Melendez--but couldn't find...