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Under a revised internal structure, the summer Student Assembly is now well under way towards implementation of its agenda for the term.
The Freshman Office has given the Assembly permission to organize a separate program during Freshman Orientation Week devoted to the issue of sexual assault.
The Assembly Sexual Assault Task Force, chaired by Rukmini Sichitiu '95 and Danielle Moore '95, is currently preparing a 50 minute presentation that students will perform on Social Issues night.
"It was felt that there was a need for more education about sexual assault during that first week that students are here," Moore said.
The Assembly is now working under a new internal organization.
Assembly President Nicole Artzer '94 promised to reform the committee structure of the Assembly in her Spring term campaign, just one year after the Assembly's constitution was last revised.
She promised to keep the Administrative Affairs committee and abolish the Policy and Projects committees in favor of substitute groups for academic issues and extra-curricular issues.
But the change requires a two-thirds vote during the regular year to revoke the article in the Assembly's constitution that establishes committee structure.
To meet Artzer's promise now, the summer Policy Committee has focused on academic issues and the Projects Committee has devoted itself to extra-curricular issues.
Harvey said some members of the Assembly have refrained from bringing up certain policy issues they would like to address.
He said they deferred to what they perceived to be the reasons the student body elected Artzer, a desire for the Assembly to focus more on student issues.
The Policy Committee will hear a presentation Wednesday night by Clare Choo '94, chair of a group seeking new classes in Korean Studies, Policy Chair Susan Foster '92 said.
After three years of Assembly lobbying, the Administrative Affairs Committee anticipates that the Registrar's office will have a computerized ORC on-line in Fall term '94, Administrative Affairs Chair Steve Fagell '95 said.
Administrative Affairs is preparing to make sure the administration takes student input into consideration when the Education Department's uncertain future is discussed next year.
The committee is also lobbying DarTalk to purchase a new switchboard earlier than the scheduled 1995 date.
According to Harvey, the Communications committee is working on next year's Chez SA menu and Gold Card, both of which will be produced by an outside company, allowing greater benefits at the same cost.
The committee has convinced DarTalk to enter listings for the incoming freshman class into DND lookup.
In past years it has taken several weeks for the majority of the class to discover how to enter their own telephone numbers into the network program.
