2008 Woodie Awards
Community Senate : Club restructuring continues
Community Senate
Issue date: 11/4/05 Section: News
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While you may have heard about the Club Restructuring issues that Community Senate has been facing recently, I'm don't think that we've been advertising the other issues brought to our weekly meetings over the last few weeks. What better time to sum them up than now?
One of the most basic and necessary goals of this year's Senate administration is to fill all the open seats in campus committees reserved for students. We currently have students on committees from Admissions and Cultural Pluralism to Athletic Advisory, Library, Study Abroad, and many more, though there is still a spot open on the Facilities Committee. Senators are expected to either be a part of a campus committee or a Senate committee, but campus committee spaces are also open to the general student body; please contact Leise Gergely if you are interested. Gergely has been hard at work appointing members of Senate to both sets of committees as well as creating a fully competent Judicial Board for this year.
The proposals we have seen thus far in our weekly meetings have fallen into several categories.
New club proposals, like those from Psychology, Screen Printing, and others, will not be heard in Senate until after the club restructuring process is finished, which is expected in the next two weeks.
Another group of proposals are requests for additional funding for existing clubs. BioHazard requested extra funds for new jerseys for the team. Senate has agreed to match any fund that the Ultimate Frisbee team raises up to half of the cost of the jerseys. Both Expressions in Dance and the Health Sciences club received a limited amount of extra funds to cover their expenses for the coming year. Also in this category, we received a proposal from Project Community to put on the One Love Roots festival; we granted them their full request.
Another common type of request is funding for conference groups and trips of an academic nature or community benefit. One such example is that of the Maafa Trip where a group of students from the Multi-Cultural Resource Center went to New York to discover more about the Middle Passage. One requirement for groups and trips like this that receive funds from Senate is to present programs to the community based on what they learned during their experience. So, please look out for such programs from this group coming soon.
One of the most basic and necessary goals of this year's Senate administration is to fill all the open seats in campus committees reserved for students. We currently have students on committees from Admissions and Cultural Pluralism to Athletic Advisory, Library, Study Abroad, and many more, though there is still a spot open on the Facilities Committee. Senators are expected to either be a part of a campus committee or a Senate committee, but campus committee spaces are also open to the general student body; please contact Leise Gergely if you are interested. Gergely has been hard at work appointing members of Senate to both sets of committees as well as creating a fully competent Judicial Board for this year.
The proposals we have seen thus far in our weekly meetings have fallen into several categories.
New club proposals, like those from Psychology, Screen Printing, and others, will not be heard in Senate until after the club restructuring process is finished, which is expected in the next two weeks.
Another group of proposals are requests for additional funding for existing clubs. BioHazard requested extra funds for new jerseys for the team. Senate has agreed to match any fund that the Ultimate Frisbee team raises up to half of the cost of the jerseys. Both Expressions in Dance and the Health Sciences club received a limited amount of extra funds to cover their expenses for the coming year. Also in this category, we received a proposal from Project Community to put on the One Love Roots festival; we granted them their full request.
Another common type of request is funding for conference groups and trips of an academic nature or community benefit. One such example is that of the Maafa Trip where a group of students from the Multi-Cultural Resource Center went to New York to discover more about the Middle Passage. One requirement for groups and trips like this that receive funds from Senate is to present programs to the community based on what they learned during their experience. So, please look out for such programs from this group coming soon.
