The Resident Student Association’s (RSA) Vice President for Finance Elliot Inz resigned from his position at the group’s general council meeting July 20.

Inz, a middler engineering major who was beginning his second term in the position, cited “personal reasons” as his reason for stepping down from his office.

“I felt I didn’t have enough time to devote to the position,” Inz said.

Inz began his first co-op working in information technology at EMD Lexigen, a pharmaceutical company, in June, and said co-op began taking up more of his time than he had originally expected. By the second week, he said, he knew he would have trouble maintaining such a hectic schedule.

“I thought that it would get better, but I just didn’t have enough time,” he said.

Inz has been involved with RSA since Welcome Week during his freshman year, he said. He took over as vice president of finance after former Vice President Jay Russak stepped down in December 2003, also citing lack of time as a reason for leaving the position. As vice president for finance, Inz controlled executive board accounts, financial paperwork for the group, acted as a liaison between RSA and the Student Activities Board and helped oversee the use of the Resident Activity Fee (RAF). The RAF funds Hall Councils, RA activities and other RSA activities.

Other members of the group’s e-board will help take over Inz’s responsibilities until a new election can be held in the fall, said Smith Anderson, RSA president.

“Right now our general council is only about a quarter of capacity,” Anderson said. “We’ll wait for some of the AVPs (assistant vice presidents) to come back, as well as any people that are kind of interested in the position.”

Anderson said that although he is sad to see Inz go, he understands and respects his decision.

“I have to respect what he needs to do, he’s obviously a student leader, but being a student comes first,” he said.

Although Inz had no assistant vice president and ran unopposed for reelection, Anderson said he is confident someone will step in to fill the role in the fall.

“One of the reasons he ran unopposed,” Anderson said, “was that there was no doubt in people’s minds that he would do a good job. I’m not worried at this point that no one will run.”

Inz said he still plans on remaining active in the organization, and has offered to take the position of assistant vice president in the fall in order to help the new vice president.

“I still have a lot of expertise in the area to help out,” he said.