By Andrew Pillow

The Internal Affairs Committee of Student Government drafted a compromised version of the proposal to eliminate all senator-at-large positions that did not pass at last week’s Senate meeting.

The Senate Membership Constitutional Amendment as originally proposed would have taken away all senator-at-large positions and the freshman senator position and added one sophomore senator position.

The reworked version will take away five of the current senators-at-large and redistribute them to other colleges. The act will also keep the number of freshmen senators at four. The total number of senators would be 40.

Senators decided eliminating all the senator-at-large positions was too drastic.

“We didn’t feel comfortable eliminating the senator-at-large totally because there are still students that aren’t connected to a college who deserve to be represented,” Senator-At-Large Kara Osborne said. “Change isn’t always the remedy.”

Senators are confident the compromise solves enough of the problem of representation, while keeping the popular position of senator-at-large in tact.

The full Senate will vote on the proposal at next week’s meeting.