Lisa Flam, student vice president for student affairs, wants to implement a Student Leadership Council for the 2004 school year.

Flam will lead the council, which aims to unite and aid Eastern’s Recognized Student Orgranizations through efforts such as publicity, programming, recruitment and funding.

“This is going to be an awesome tool for RSOs,” Flam said.

“The first thing we have to do when we get back (in the fall) is to set up a proposal to detail the structure and conditions by which the council will operate,” Flam said.

The proposal must be passed by the Student Senate before the council can come to fruition.

“I will work on writing the proposal over the summer,” Flam said. “We have so many things that we have to get approved.”

“It will be very time consuming and it will take a lot of effort for her to get something like this to pass,” said Student Senate member Alecia Robinson.

Though the goal is to receive approval by the first few weeks of fall semester, Flam said the development of the council is still in the planning stage.

The council will be divided into four or five subcommittees to be headed by corresponding vice presidents, Flam said.

The committee vice presidents will work closely with the RSOs to facilitate communication, coordinate programs and provide a unifying link, Flam said.

If the council is approved next fall, Flam said she hopes to fill the vice president spots before the spring semester.

“There’s going to be a lot of kinks we’ll have to work out,” she said.

Though next year will be a learning process, Flam remains optimistic.

“I’m really, really excited,” she said.

Flam’s many accomplishments on the Student Senate indicate she will do a good job with the position, Robinson said.

“Lisa has done well with Unity Week and other projects and I know she will give (this project) her all,” she said.

Flam also wants to create an online RSO database to include information about each organization as well as contact phone numbers.

No such database currently exists, she said.

The most difficult part of the project will be “contacting the student organizations and getting their current info,” she said.

Flam has not yet contacted the technology department about the technical aspects of creating a database, but she plans to do so next semester.

In addition to organizing the Student Leadership Council and creating a RSO database, Flam wants to continue her efforts with Unity Week.

Flam created Unity Week this year as a way to celebrate the differences that exist among Eastern students, she said.

The event was held last month and included student-led unity discussions, motivational speakers and comedic performances.

“Each year that we do it, more students will be aware of it,” Flam said.