Student Senate asks for student feedback on fire pit

Last year, Student Senate took on a project to add a fire pit to campus. It underwent heavy discussion, both from students and senators, before $18,000 was allocated for the project. Over the summer, designs and blueprints was created and now senators are seeking student feedback before moving forward. 

“If you guys want to go take a week or two and just talk to people about if they like the plan or if they want something added or taken out, whatever.”  Student Senate President Isioma Akwanamye said.  

The design would be able to seat 70 people around the fire pit, Akwanamnye said during the meeting, but the space would have a larger max capacity.  

Senate has spent $4,000 so far on hiring an architect to draw up blueprints for the project. They began discussing the possibility of what would happen if the project was more than what they allocated, how the fire pit would be fueled and who would be able to turn it on but decided to wait on those decisions until senators had a chance to talk to students.   

“Any way the campus decides they want to go is the way Student Senate goes,” Akwanamyne said. “It’s not an Isi project or a Lily project or an Abby project, it’s a Student Senate project and who’s student senate? You guys.”