The Faculty Senate passed a resolution Tuesday recommending that the Council on University Planning and Budget not approve proposed bylaw changes that the senate feels weaken the language of the bylaws.

Changes to four of the bylaws’ articles were proposed at an informal CUPB meeting last month and the senate objected to proposed changes to two of those articles.

One of the sections dealt with the relationship between subcommittees and university vice presidents. The other involved the function of the council as a whole. Senate members said they felt that changes under both articles weakened the power of the CUPB.

James Tidwell, journalism professor, was among the senate members to oppose the proposed changes.

“It certainly does water it down considerably,” he said. “This sort of denigrates the importance, it seems to me, of the whole process.”

Senate member David Carwell, political science professor, agreed, saying the proposed changes don’t hold the vice presidents accountable for reporting to the CUPB’s subcommittees.

“I think when you water it down like this you are giving them and easy out,” he said.

The senate approved of the other two proposed changes, which shorten the amount of time needed for a council member to propose a bylaw change and recognize that the university’s fourth vice-presidential area is now called external relations.

The senate’s resolution asks that the CUPB drop the proposed changes to the sections concerning subcommittees and the council’s functions and also consider holding its executive committee elections in the spring, so that the new members could take over as soon as the fall semester begins.