Student Association elected three assembly representatives and two Finance Board members during a series of uncontested elections at Monday night’s meeting.

Two students were elected to represent the College of Arts and Sciences and one student was elected to represent the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. As a result of these elections, there is now one spot open for an Arts and Sciences representative and no open spots for a Newhouse representative. The election of two Finance Board members leaves five vacancies on the board.

The first election of the night was for the three open Arts and Sciences seats. Jack Harding, a freshman political science and international relations major, Marcelo Fuentes, a sophomore economics and international relations major and Gabe Shelton, an undeclared freshman in Arts and Sciences ran for the open seats.

Harding, who is also a student representative in the University Senate, and Shelton were elected to fill two of the seats.

“I believe that at the end of the day, if you’re going to be involved you shouldn’t care about yourself,” Shelton told the assembly. “You should always care about listening to others.”

Shelton and Harding both said they would like to join the Academic Affairs Committee. Fuentes, who wanted to join the Student Engagement Committee, was not elected to fill the third seat. Several assembly members who had worked with Fuentes in other organizations expressed concern that he was involved in too many activities and would not be able to fully commit to SA.

Charlotte Stockdale, a junior public relations major, ran uncontested for the last open Newhouse seat and was elected. Stockdale, who is also a staff writer for The Daily Orange, said she is passionate about her college and is eager to represent her fellow Newhouse students and professors.

In the final election of the night, Diane Choo, a junior marketing and finance major, and Mike Damico, a freshman advertising and finance major, were elected to the Finance Board. The Finance Board is the 12-member board in charge of reviewing applications for funding from student organizations.

Living SU

The assembly heard a presentation from organizers of Living SU, a multimedia campaign run by the Division of Student Affairs that works to connect students with events happening on campus. Living SU recently launched a website that aims to put all the events held by SU student organizations in one convenient place, said Jill Ouikahilo, communications director for Student Affairs.

Events that student organizations put on their OrgSync pages are automatically added to the Living SU website, Ouikahilo said. The website also has a section that incorporates social media streams from campus organizations and a blog about what students are doing on campus.

“We are not affiliated with any other college on campus. All we’re trying to do is make students feel good and that’s what all our content’s about,” said Maryann Akinboyewa, a junior marketing and writing major who runs the Living SU blog. “It’s not about us, it’s about the students on this campus.”

Committee Reports 

President Boris Gresely gave a brief report highlighting the various initiatives that the SA committees are working on. A few of the initiatives are as follows:

• The Student Engagement Committee has created a survey to get feedback from students about the issue of self-segregation on campus and is currently working on creating a report on the results.
• The Student Life Committee has been focusing on the issue of transfer students not being able to participate in greek life until they have 12 SU credits.
• Academic Affairs is currently working on the idea of setting up a multicultural writing center where students could get help from graduate students when writing essays in languages other than English.
• The Public Relations Committee has been sharing stories about initiatives SA is working on through Twitter and Facebook posts.

Published on March 18, 2014 at 1:54 am

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