Student Senate

Senate allocated $850 for Homecoming events and $900 for a voting conference Monday.

About 20 students attended the open forum last Thursday, and brought up concerns with spending money on movie nights as well as issues around campus to Student Senate President Katrina Hurley.

Scholarships for senators, student retention issues, and dining services were among a variety of issues 17 student senators and two Senate advisers—Mathew Brust and Kurt Kinbacher—discussed Saturday during an informal meeting in The Hub.

Student Senate president Katrina Hurley hosted a 14-minute open forum Thursday to discuss three main topics with students.

The Social Science Club Secretary Aaron Eagle came requesting money for a voting conference to be hosted Oct. 4.

Chief justice and secretary positions are filled, and dorm hall senators are sworn in

Senate allocated $1,071 Monday and voted to confirm a $20,000 allocation from 2014, without knowing the total funds available to Senate for the semester.

Senate allocated $109 for food provided for that Monday’s meeting.

Senate hosted another open forum Thursday, April 21 to discuss topics of renovation in the basement student lounge in Reta E. King Library, Week of Welcome, and Homecoming. Interest from the student population wasn’t shown with only four people attending.

At the last official meeting of the semester, Senators amended the Election Procedure A-29 bylaw that used to read “No candidates’ names will be mentioned in the vote-count narrative.” The bylaw now reads “All candidate names and their corresponding vote count shall be included in the vote-count narrative.” This amendment takes effect immediately so it will be in effect for elections in the fall 2016 semester.