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Senate Assembly reapportions seats to make room for School of Public Policy

Faculty members of the Senate Assembly this week made room in their ranks for the University's newest academic branch, the School of Public Policy.

With a unanimous cry of "aye," the Senate Assembly approved a plan to reapportion its makeup, including one seat for Public Policy.

With the same cry, members also agreed to eliminate one Engineering and two LSA seats, while both the Medical School and the Dearborn campus gained one representative each.

Biology Prof. Thomas Moore said he was surprised the Medical School still has one seat fewer than LSA.

"The Medical School has grown tremendously," he said, adding that LSA has dropped 10 percent in growth in the last three years.

Ruth Barnard said it was not just a matter of dividing up the 73-member body, but of making room for Public Policy.

Employing a method similar to the one used to apportion the House of Representatives, assembly member and Engineering Prof. Ronald Lomax drafted the plan.

While most University schools, colleges and the Flint campus will have the same number of representatives, the following will have different representation.

The change from last year is in parentheses.