"We're going to start dealing with issues that are important to people across all spectrums of campus," Tanner said.
The transition of power occurred the day after Monday's election, which is much sooner than last year, when then-incoming President Frances Vernon '10 and Vice President Cory Cunningham '10 were not inaugurated until three weeks after last year's election.
Vernon said she and Cunningham lost momentum from the debates during that time and as a result decided to move the inauguration forward this year.
In the coming weeks, Tanner will introduce legislation to amend the Assembly constitution and reorganize the four current committees, he said.
Under Tanner's plan, the current Academic Affairs, Student Life and Student Services Committees would be consolidated into the Programming and Services Committee. The Committee would have one elected chair and one chair appointed by the Assembly president, Tanner said.
The Diversity and Community Affairs Committee, which is "as close to an issue-based committee as we currently have," will remain unchanged until the Fall, Tanner said.
If approved, Tanner's plan would allow the Assembly to create six to eight issue-based committees in the Fall, after students and Assembly members have had the chance to discuss which matters warrant committees and how to divide them, Tanner said. He listed sexual assault, sustainability and alternative social spaces as possible topics for issue-based committees.
If created, the committees would also have one elected and one appointed chair each.
Members of the Class of 2012 will continue to work during the Summer to evaluate the Assembly's internal structure, Tanner said.
"We're going to do an internal audit and look at all of the projects the different committees have worked on over the past year," Aiono said.
Several committee members voiced concerns that the new Programming and Services Committee would be too broad and too large to effectively tackle specific issues addressed by the current committees, while others worried that they would have difficulty continuing current projects during the committee transition process.
Tanner and Aiono said they would collaborate with the committee chairs and students to ensure that the Assembly would be able to effectively address current projects and issues during the transition.
The new Assembly administration plans to enhance communication with the Office of the President and the Office of the Dean of the College, Tanner and Aiono said.
"We want to make sure that the [College] administration is aware that these student groups have the same amount of power and should have the same amount of say as the groups that they're impacting," Tanner said.
Tanner and Aiono encouraged students to bring their friends to upcoming meetings which will be held at Tindle Lounge instead of in Carson Hall because student input is needed to effect constructive changes to the Assembly's structure, they said.
"The grassroots buzz is how you get people to come to events," Tanner said.
Tanner is a staff photographer for The Dartmouth and Cunningham is a former member of The Dartmouth Senior Business Staff.
