A proposed Student Senate resolution suggesting that executives only serve on specified committees failed at last week’s senate meeting after heated debate, but could be revived this week.

A revised resolution of the proposal will be presented to the senate in upcoming weeks said Jeff Tischauser, a senate member and co-author of the resolution.

The current student government constitution does not limit senate executives from serving on any committees, but Tischauser said the revised resolution will propose to limit the executives to only serving on those in their area.

The resolution was written to extend committee membership availability to other students and senate members, Tischauser said at last week’s senate meeting.

“I feel that people (executives) abuse their power to fill them (committees) for themselves,” he said. “I would appreciate a little input on what committees are open.”

Tischauser said senate members cited problems such as filling positions on committees when involvement is lax and the creation of new committees that would not presently be mentioned in the proposal.

Executives expressed concerns that limiting them from committees will limit experience and familiarity they could offer.

“I don’t think you should limit the executives. Whenever the students elected us, they elected us in those specific areas because they thought we would be knowledgeable (in those executive positions),” Ronald Deedrick, vice president for academic affairs, said.

He said the resolution would be detrimental to executives.

“I think that we keep our constitution vague for a reason. I think the matter really just ought to be left alone,” Deedrick said.

“The constitution changes a lot-it used to list the committees (for executives),” said Marty Ruhaak, vice president for public affairs, at last week’s meeting.

He said limiting executives limits committees.

“You don’t want to put people on there (committees) that don’t have a formal knowledge of what they’re doing.”

The new resolution will be more specific for any executive limitations, said Tischauser.

“I want to talk to more senators. I heard the complaints senators had, and I would be willing to work with them,” he said.

Student senator Dwight Nelson, co-author of the first resolution, said the revised version will be a proposed bill, instead of a resolution.

He said the main change will be not to specify any committees the executives can serve on, so the bill will not become outdated with the addition of new committees, and a date will be listed for the proposed bill to take effect.

He said senators can still offer experience to committees that have more knowledge in relating to their current executive position. This can be accomplished by sitting on as ex-officiary members as provided in the student government constitution.

“It seems to me they didn’t understand they were already ex-officiary members,” Nelson said.