Why was the ratio of 200 students to one Assembly seat chosen (III.2)?
Basically, the issue came down to one of fairness versus manageability. We wanted to make sure that larger departments could be represented in a way that matches their size, but we also wanted to ensure that the Assembly did not grow so large as to become unwieldy. The Graduate Government committee spent a lot of time this summer working on various numerical scenarios, and it turned out that the ratio of 200:1 did the best job of addressing these two competing concerns.
