The Boston University Student Union could have been headed down a counterproductive path. At the Feb. 23 General Assembly meeting, Campus Safety Chairman Leo Gameng proposed a Voter Cleanup Act that would have forced the Union to focus on internal problems. The act intended to remove voting members who had more than three unexcused General Assembly meeting absences from their positions.’ But with a quick rescinding Monday night in room 222 in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Union did not have to spend time discussing attendance concerns and instead had one of its most active and non-confrontational meetings of the semester. The threat of the cleanup act seemed to be sufficient, as 30 of 39 voting members were accounted for last night. About 35 people attended the meeting. ‘It did its purpose to put in the minds of voting members that they should be responsible to the Student Union,’ Gameng, a CAS senior, said.’ ‘ In keeping with the productive pace of last night’s GA, the Union celebrated a partial victory. The advocacy group has been fighting for a ‘good Samaritan’ policy that would encourage students to seek medical attention if they have consumed too much alcohol by guaranteeing them a pardon from judicial sanctions if they made the safe choice. Part of the Union’s proposal would to ensure that sexual assault victims in situations involving alcohol would never be punished. In a letter sent Monday to Union President Matt Seidel, Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore guaranteed that such victims would not face university sanctions. ‘When there is a question of sexual abuse or assault in a situation involving alcohol or drugs, the student who was sexually abused or assaulted is not subject to discipline under the university’s alcohol and drug policy,’ Elmore wrote in the letter. Although Seidel was pleased with the news, he said Union will not stop pressing administrators on the broader issue. ‘We are still going to be saying to them that we want a guarantee to students that if they call for help or come forward, they will be protected,’ Seidel, as CAS junior, said. Elmore’s letter also stated BU would review its treatment toward students who possess less than one ounce of marijuana because of Question 2, which lessened the punishment on small amounts of the substance. Question 2 passed on the November ballot. In his Academic Affairs spotlight presentation, Chairman James Sappenfield discussed his committee’s collaboration with librarian Robert Hudson to push for Mugar Memorial Library to stay open 24 hours. Sappenfield, a CAS and SMG junior, also said the committee is working with a few administrators, who do not want to be identified, to create a grade compression proposal. This would establish a system by which BU students’ transcripts would include their grades for each class compared to the class average, allowing graduate schools and law schools to have a clearer idea of what grades mean at BU. Both the library hours extension and the transcript adjustment could be implemented for the 2009-10 academic year, Sappenfield said.