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Student trustee candidates to interview tonight
Students should change their Facebook privacy settings to prevent university officials from viewing their personal information and pictures on the site, said Nick Johnson, director of the Student Advocacy Center, at a forum Thursday to educate students about the risks of a public Facebook profile.
A new student-run academic journal for AU undergraduates will release its first issue Sept. 19, said Taylor Robinson, a junior in the School of Public Affairs and the College of Arts and Sciences and one of the founders of the online "Clocks and Clouds" journal.
Women interested in Student Government involvement can participate in a free, all-day training program Saturday to learn how to launch a successful campaign in October's elections for the SG's legislative body, the Undergraduate Senate, according to JoAnna Smith, director of Women's Initiative.
Freshmen and returning students who arrived on campus last week were greeted with Welcome Week programs ranging from salsa dancing and free food to the larger weekend performances of Phantom Planet and the annual favorite Capitol Steps.
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Thirteen members of the AU board of trustees must be removed from office and students need to be given voting rights on the board, according to Student Government president Ashley Mushnick in a letter she hand-delivered to the Senate Finance Committee chairman last week.
Despite facing new legislative threats from the U.S. Senate and AU's Student Government, AU's board of trustees unanimously adopted a plan of governance overhaul last month, including a decision to add two non-voting faculty trustees, one non-voting student trustee and one recent graduate with full voting rights to the board.
Stephanie M. Bennett-Smith was the first female president of New Jersey's Centenary College. Now in retirement, she serves as the board secretary to the United Methodist Higher Education Foundation's board of trustees and serves on several other university and philanthropic boards.
Some initiatives of former President Kyle Taylor's administration are still ongoing, although the newly elected Student Government executives have been sworn into office,
The Undergraduate Senate is considering allocating $10,000 for the Student Government executives to continue funding their "Be" campaign in the spring semester.
The AU Undergraduate Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of supporting Congressional representation with voting rights for Washington, D.C., and increased financial accountability on the university's board of trustees yesterday.
The Undergraduate Senate passed a bill yesterday encouraging Bon Appetit, AU's on-campus food service, to stop using eggs from hens confined in battery-cages and completely switch to cage-free eggs by Feb. 1, 2006.
The Undergraduate Senate appropriated a total of $18,500 to the Student Government executives yesterday in two bills, one providing $8,500 for the Founder's Day Ball and the other providing $10,000 for additional "Be" campaign expenses.
The Undergraduate Senate passed a resolution yesterday supporting the four former members of the board of trustees who have resigned in recent months, in addition to a bill calling on the board to amend its bylaws in accordance with the recommendations by the Ad-Hoc University-Wide Committee on Reformation of University Governance.
The Undergraduate Senate voted unanimously yesterday to give $600 to the SIS Undergraduate Council for its annual SIS International Dinner.
The year-long transition from the old Student Confederation to the new Student Government is now complete after the General Assembly was gaveled into extinction last night by now-former Speaker Richard Bradbury, and the Undergraduate Senate took off running with the election of a new speaker, Chris Sgro, a senior in the School of Public Affairs.
The student body elected 25 members this week to the inaugural Undergraduate Senate, the new legislative arm of the Student Government that replaces the expired General Assembly.
Students can vote for their Student Government representatives from the comfort of their own computers for the first time ever in the elections that run Monday through Wednesday of this week, according to a new bill unanimously passed by the General Assembly.
The Residence Hall Association and the Student Government passed pieces of competing legislation in the past few weeks over whether military recruiters should be allowed on campus.