Student Senate

Student Senate President Katrina Hurley hosted a 7-minute open forum for four students and three senators Friday to discuss an online vote that failed Wednesday, Nov. 9 because there wasn’t a quorum.

Sen. Josh Mayer started the Senate hosted open forum Thursday, Nov. 3 with his request for $4,300 for a new mascot from the same company in Omaha that made the Lil’ Red suit for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

At Monday’s meeting, senators allocated $3,774 for “Student Health 101” with the stipulations that at least partial funding from administration is researched and the magazine is looked into putting on the Guidebook app. Senator discussed the thoughts and concerns brought up at the Senate open forum hosted Thursday, Nov. 3.

Senate said it will be live streaming the forum so students who cannot attend may participate online

Student Senate hosted a general assembly for CAB, Senate, and RLA members Tuesday in the Student Center. Topics discussed were results from the National Survey of Student Engagement and campus issues.

Senate President Katrina Hurley raised four different areas of concern at the open forum Thursday.
The first issue discussed was how to improve Homecoming for next year. A general feeling amongst the four student senators and one student in attendance was that there needs to be more options for clubs to participate in Homecoming, rather than making a certain activity mandatory.

Three students and four senators attended the open forum hosted by Student Senate President Katrina Hurley Thursday to discuss Dining Services and student surveys.

Student Senate President Katrina Hurley proposed having jackets funded through Senate for senators at Monday’s meeting.

“It would be good for the next executive senators to not have to go out there and drag people into Senate,” Hurley said. “The amount of time and energy spent in here, as well as talking to constituents, online voting, all the emails, and all the numerous committees that everyone is on, I think that it’s definitely, like, good to have some sort of ‘Hey, you did a good job,’ because sometimes we are not appreciated on campus at all.”

Deadlines and mistakes over the weekend led to one club’s bedsheet being taken down without warning, and two other clubs’ Homecoming nominees not making the ballot.

Student senator Michael Steube, Student Senate Secretary Olivia Vester, Student Trustee Coy Clark, and Senate President Katrina Hurley met to discuss Homecoming at the open forum in the Student Center Thursday.