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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...
...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...
...other hand, some argue that the council is not giving out enough money to student groups. Finance Committee Vice Chair Jeffrey A. Letalien '01 says he thinks the council ought to reverse its policy of not funding groups that are making profits...
Such a policy "of encouraging fiscal irresponsibility" gives student groups an incentive not to fundraise and to run up debts and lessens the number of students who benefit from grants, according to Letalien...
...think the fact that Jeff Letalien and David Orr are co-sponsoring a bill shows it's not a political issue," Leonard said in a moment of levity...