Senate discusses technology fees allocations, upgrades

Technology on campus was the main topic of discussion at this week’s Senate meeting.

Jacob Karmazin, president, discussed personalization of senate T-shirt and jackets, constitutional and by-law amendments. Travis Doht, former technology chair member, spoke on behalf of the technology fee committee.

Doht said funds will go to maintenance and infrastructure upgrades.

Summer projects include looking into new print stations that would allow students to print documents from their computers and virtualizing servers to help reduce electricity consumption and duplicate hardware.

Doht also said users of mobile Internet devices still cannot connect to campus Wi-Fi because they are creating IP address conflicts on the network.

According to Doht, Ann Burk, director of information technologies, said Information Technology is working on the issue with the vendor that provides the network access control  device. As soon as the source of the problem is corrected, mobile access will be restored. IT hopes the issue is resolved soon but cannot provide a specific date.

Riley Machal, chief justice, swore in recently-elected constitutional court member Nisha Durand.

Laure Sinn, coordinator of student activities, said that Olivia Weter, a professional development speaker, will give a two hour seminar starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Senate made motions to change all references to “petitions” within the by-laws to “ballot forms,” and allocated $350 from the student activity fee account for senate T-shirts.