The undergraduate student government’s Academic Assembly members last week discussed a way to become more accountable to their constituents by forming a committee to keep a closer eye on representative attendance at meetings.

But ASMSU’s Student Assembly has yet to address the issue despite attendance inconsistencies.

Student Assembly makes decisions on how to disperse more than $1 million of student tax dollars.

By the end of the 2001-02 session, there were 22 members left on the assembly out of 25 members who started. Twenty-four seats remained open. There was a turnover of about 15 people who were either added or eliminated throughout the year.

Chad Coe, who stopped coming to Student Assembly meetings as the College of Natural Science representative, said the assembly should streamline how it conducts business. He said he couldn’t devote three and a half hours to the weekly meeting.

“They have a hard enough time filling up seats because the meetings last so long,” the philosophy sophomore said. “That really turns people off.”

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