But concerned that the question skirted the issue of whether the council should make political statements on topics like gay marriage--as it did last year--a group of conservatives insisted that the council add an additional question.
The survey now asks how involved the council should be in "potentially controversial issues of student concern," such as the living wage campaign.
Despite the modification, Student Affairs Committee (SAC) Chair Michael D. Shumsky '00 says the change doesn't go far enough.
"The real question is, Amadou Diallo or fly-by?" Shumsky says. "Do you want the council to do this, or do you want the council to do that?"
But James C. Coleman '03, a member of the census work group, says he thinks most students understand that the council should deal with both types of issues.
"To set it up as an either-or, as some kind of binary choice, isn't what we want to do," Coleman says.
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