In an effort to more effectively distribute funds and benefit future club leaders, Student Union officials said they are in the early stages of creating a system to track club activities.Officials stressed they were only in the early stages of planning. But their plan will likely involve sending various Union representatives to club events. These officials would then submit written reports to the Union assessing the various successes and failures of events funded through the Finance Board.

The information would serve two purposes, officials said. It will allow the F-Board to take past programs into account when making funding decisions, while also allowing future club leaders to refer to, and possibly emulate, their clubs' past activities.

The F-Board, a panel of seven undergraduates, allocates funding for nearly all student groups on campus through distribution of nearly $1 million in funds each year.

Union Director of Communications Brian Paternostro '07 and other officials stressed that the proposal is part of a broader Union initiative to provide more resources to clubs and more equitable distribution of club funding money. The Union last year spearheaded sweeping reforms of the club funding system for the same reasons.

When asked to elaborate on the type of information the Union would like to see, Paternostro pointed to last year's "party animals dance," in which the Brandeis Republicans and Brandeis Democrats co-sponsored a dance to demonstrate that people with divergent political views can still socialize with each other-but less than a dozen people showed up.

"'Well, you tried this once and it bombed,'" Paternostro speculated the F-Board would say if a similar proposal came to the table.

Sridatta Mukherjee '09, the F-Board chair, said the information will be very helpful in making funding decisions.

"Every member of the F-Board should be able to know what happened in the previous year," Mukherjee said.

Officials said they do not plan to assign people to observe certain events, but rather to have officials who would normally attend certain events during their week report on them.

Treasurer Choon Woo Ha '08, for example, said he likes to go to the International Club's large party, Pachanga.

"Let's say I'm the only there dancing by myself," Ha said. "That should be noted."

Senator-at-Large Shreeya Sinha '09, who chairs the Club Support Committee, also said it will be helpful to future club leaders to see initiatives clubs pursued in the past, offering the example of the recently refounded Students Organized Against Racism, whose leaders had no information available about the club's past actions.

"Clubs don't have their own office [or] their own space," Sinha said. "What happens when leadership dies down? Clubs have to start again and again and again.