During Monday's Campus Life Council meeting, Student Body President Libby Bishop introduced the idea of including a representative for international students in the council. The number of undergraduate international students has doubled in the last year, according the Council.

"We want them to know that they do have a voice, we do acknowledge their existence," said Bishop of the international students.

Several council members disliked the idea of including a special interest group in the Council.

"We represent a quest to find out what is best for the community. I don't see a need to bring in a special interest group since we are all supposed to represent all interests," said Father Paul Doyle, rector of Dillon Hall.

Council members were concerned that Notre Dame's 1,000 international students are not widely involved in student government, and may feel that they do not have an opportunity to voice their concerns.

In other CLC news:

Task force leaders shared newly formulated task force mission statements with the Council. The leadership, communication and BASES task forces used the mission statements to communicate their goals for the year.

Each of the three task forces plans on creating a student accessible Web site to consolidate information about their respective causes. A major goal of the communications task force is the creation of a main Web site where all campus events would be posted.

"We want to wean the student body off of flyers and posters," said Jane Ong, leader of the communications task force.

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