Senate seats new members
Chris Walden/Student Government Reporter
Issue date: 12/6/07 Section: News
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Senate swore in 21 new members following the elections, seven from the newly formed United Party of Students. Three-hundred eighty-seven students voted in the elections this semester, a number down from last fall's 399 students.
One senate seat has not been filled because two candidates were tied for elections. Sarah Shaw from the Student United Party and Keith Darby from the United Party of Students both have 115 votes for the eighth at-large senate seat.
A run-off election will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union to decide which candidate will be elected to the final seat. The election will be open to all students, even those who voted in Monday and Tuesday's general elections.
Megan Ogulnick was voted the new senate speaker.
The other nominees for the position were Tyson Holder, Adam Martinelli, and Tiffany Turner.
In other business, University Board's Mainstage proposal of $10,980 was introduced as emergency legislation and passed the senate with a vote of 20-1, with one abstention. Mainstage's proposal aims to bring musicians and performers to Eastern in the spring semester.
The Special Events proposal was also introduced as emergency legislation, for $25,600. The Special Events proposal included continuing Up All Night events as well as the new Pantherstock festival later in the spring.
The Special Events proposal passed with a vote of 16-5.
Both proposals were introduced as emergency legislation because of the short time available to contract musicians and performers for the next year.
The new Student Government Web site is now uploaded to Eastern's servers and is ready to be updated with next semester's information.
The Suicide Awareness Initiatives Committee received approval on its bylaws to make it an ad-hoc committee within the senate. The senate approved the bylaws by a vote of 18-2-1, also recognizing that the committee must be re-approved every two years.
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Chris Kromphardt
posted 12/05/07 @ 11:59 PM CST
Great job everyone. Especially to you, Megan; congrats on making Speaker! Can't wait to join you guys in January.
matt
posted 12/06/07 @ 12:04 AM CST
you SG people are a bunch of idiots, the politics is ridiculous. i cant believe the people constantly relected only due to lack of votes from students. (Continued…)
Ryan Kerch
posted 12/06/07 @ 12:37 AM CST
Well, Matt. As a newly elected senator, I look forward to changing your opinion of Student Government.
Matt
posted 12/09/07 @ 11:38 PM CST
i was on student government actually. but please do do something to change it. the same people who do nothing keep getting the privilege of high up positions which is just unfair to the student body. (Continued…)
Kyle
posted 12/10/07 @ 7:53 PM CST
"United Party of Students"
If someone had told me that was the name of a party running this year, I would have thought it was a joke. Didn't we already have the Students United Party and the Student Unity Party?
The line between reality and parody in Student Government is perforated. (Continued…)
Chris Kromphardt
posted 12/10/07 @ 10:31 PM CST
I don't get what the importance of a party name is. It's just a label for a group, and the acronym worked well, so why not use it? What exactly do you expect in a student government party name, Shakespeare?
As for things getting old, cynicism over student government sure is high on that list. (Continued…)
Johnson
posted 12/11/07 @ 12:48 PM CST
Who cares, 12,000 students give or take and 300 some voted. Obviously no one cares or believes that thes people do anything except pad their resumes. (Continued…)
Travis Bounds
posted 12/12/07 @ 12:26 AM CST
Well, hell, if your spelling is any indication of your intelligence, I would rather you not vote, and leave it up to those who can form cognitive sentences
Johnson
posted 12/12/07 @ 4:02 PM CST
Travis Bounds;
student senator - check
member of the nerd patrol - check
Cognitive sentence?
posted 12/12/07 @ 6:22 PM CST
Would that be a sentence relating to the mental processes of perception and memory?
Perhaps you meant "cogent," meaning relevant or incisive.
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