The first thing Lisa Flam, student vice president for student affairs, wants to do is bring together recognized organizations on campus.

Last semester Flam talked about creating a Student Leadership Council to unite and aid Eastern’s Recognized Student Organizations through efforts such as publicity, programming, recruitment and funding.

“If the Student Leadership Council was established before the end of the year, that would be reasonable,” she said. “They’ll be able to come together, meet more people and get new ideas.”

Though Flam did not work on writing the leadership council proposal during the summer as intended, she said herself and the other student senate vice presidents met Tuesday to talk about starting the proposal.

“It’s still basically in the same (theoretical) stage as last semester,” Flam said. “But we’re meeting tonight to talk about how these things are going to come into fruition.” The proposal will detail how the council will be structured and maintained.

Though Flam previously mentioned having five vice presidents to oversee the different aspects of the leadership council, she said these details will be addressed while in the process of writing the proposal.

“Those are all things we need to work out,” Flam said. “We want to make sure things run smoothly.”

In addition to consulting other universities for ideas, Flam said she and the other student vice presidents will have to meet with administrators and look through university documents to make sure the proposal complies with university policy.

“There’s going to be a lot of paperwork that will set the groundwork,” Flam said.

Flam also wants to work on an online RSO database listing Eastern’s student organizations and provide students with contact phone numbers.

Students will be able to use the database to learn more about Eastern’s student organizations and how they can join one, Flam said.

The database has not yet been developed and Flam said “we’re kind of at a standstill.”

The first step in creating the database is to find the proper persons to construct it, she said.