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After more than three months of debate and discussion, the Student Advisory Committee (SAC)--the governing body of the Institute of Politics (IOP)--voted Saturday against a proposal designed to open up the SAC election process to non-members...
...Instead, SAC voted to keep the current system in place but to allay concerns of accessibility by making "programmatic changes," specifically publishing the by-laws that govern the selection process...
...rejected proposal would have had the IOP's smaller committees--which plan events, internships and study groups--elect their own members, called associates, to SAC. Currently, SAC is a self-perpetuating system, with members choosing new committee chairs...
...looked at the...proposals we had in front of us, and we concluded that it was definitely very important to make our current selection process and by-laws more accessible," said SAC Chair Byron J. McLain '00. "But we decided as a body that the current process...contain[s] many strengths, and that it would be better if we continued using that process...
...number of those who were in support of the proposal, when contacted by The Crimson yesterday, said they continue to have concerns about what they see as the closed and elitist nature of SAC...