The Michigan Student Assembly last night passed a resolution in support of a fall study break that will be hand delivered to the registrar, provost and University Board of Regents this week.

The assembly released their analysis and recommendations for changes to the University academic calendar last week. The proposed fall study break would fall on a Monday and Tuesday in mid-October.

"(Vice Provost for Academic Affairs) Lester Monts told me that we have 100 percent full support of (interim Provost) Lisa Tedesco," MSA President Matt Nolan said. "With her support, we are basically guaranteed that the regents will be voting on this in December, and if they approve it, next fall we will have a fall study break."

The assembly debated whether to allow student groups to use assembly money to advertise their events before passing funding for two events.

The funding will go to the Michigan Masquerade, a fund raiser for AIDS research and to commemorate World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, and Unity through Light and Sound, a holiday caroling event planned to promote healing after the events of Sept. 11. Both events are seeking to place ads in the Michigan Daily.

"I know they have been working hard to find outside sources of funding, and both of these events are open to everyone in the University community, which is something the Budget Priorities Committee looks for when funding a group," said LSA Rep. Edgar Zapata.

"BPC doesn"t fund student groups for newspaper ads at all, so I don"t think we should give (the Health Issues Commission) money for these events just because we have it," said LSA Rep. Javier Restrepo.

The assembly"s Women"s Issues Commission announced a summit to be held tomorrow for the purpose of promoting networking among student women"s groups.

"The summit will help us make sure all women"s groups at the University are recognized," commission co-chair Priya Sehgal said. "This is going to be very empowering for all women."

Next week the assembly will be considering proposals to form a student regent task force, a resolution on suggestions for how the presidential search should be conducted and a statement in support of the right of all women to fully participate in politics.

Rackham Reps Jessica Curtin and Suzanne Perkins-Hart drafted the statement in support of women in politics in response to comments published about Curtin in the Michigan Independent and similar phrases chalked on the Diag.

"The report card in the Independent is a borderline rape threat and statements such as those are hostile to women leadership," Curtin said. "We hope that next week"s MSA meeting will serve as a speak out for women political leaders to report sexual harassment."