The University Graduate Council presented three years worth of revisions to the Graduate Students Rights and Responsibilities to the executive committee of Academic Council.

The document sets academic regulations governing MSU graduate students.

The graduate council will again present a list of the proposed changes at next month's Academic Council meeting. If the revisions are approved they will be sent to the MSU Board of Trustees for approval.

"Please don't send it back to us," graduate council chairperson Leo Kempel said, laughing as he presented the revisions of the 33-page document to the council.

"Faculty and student representatives have been working on this for nearly three years," he said.

Kempel said some of the proposed changes were simple word changes and others were issues the graduate students wanted to discuss in consultation with faculty, mostly concerning judicial procedures.

Changes include references to the university running on a quarter system, instead on the current semester system.

The changes are pending approval by the full Academic Council.

"The whole U-grad council, in the end, votes upon each change, even the cosmetic ones," Kempel said of the document.

"This was a student initiative that a lot of people touched."

Council of Graduate Students president Jim Ciszewski and former president Sam Howerton, who also was in office during the revision process, were instrumental in making the changes being put before the council, Kempel said.

Ciszewski has worked on the proposal since his election in March.

"There were a lot of things in it that were inconsistent with the university," Ciszewski said.