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Phil Woram / The Dartmouth
The Student Government Review Task Force, formed in the wake of this winter's controversy over the efficacy of student government at Dartmouth, presented its preliminary findings to Student Assembly at Tuesday night's meeting.
The task force, which is comprised of eight students with various levels of student government affiliation, was created by Assembly legislation and is charged with conducting an overview of all of Dartmouth's student government bodies - including the Assembly itself.
Though the task force is on schedule with the timeline established by the Assembly, it has yet to formulate specific recommendations for policy changes.
"We don't have any hard results yet," Task Force Chair Kapil Kale '07 said.
At Tuesday's meeting, task force members presented the General Assembly with a PowerPoint presentation outlining the research they have conducted so far and enumerated several of the key problems they have identified with current student government structure.
These problems included allocation inefficiency, a lack of publicity and no student group leadership training beyond that provided to group treasurers.
"We're taking a look from the perspective of student X, who has no idea what is going on in student government but knows that he or she wants programming, and that he or she wants advocacy, and the like," task force member Joe Kardon '09 said.
The task force members also raised the idea of putting a student representative on the College's Board of Trustees.
"We think this could be an interesting idea," Kardon said.
