SG circulates petition to create committee on AU's investments
Student Government is collecting signatures for a petition calling for the creation of a "Socially Responsible Investment Committee" that will review the University
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Student Government is collecting signatures for a petition calling for the creation of a "Socially Responsible Investment Committee" that will review the University
Patrick Kelly was elected the new Student Government president on April 3.
Student Government elections began April 2 for the next academic year. SG serves as the chief advocate for students to the administration. It also provides programming and seeks to create a sense of community among students on campus.
The SG Board of Elections will set up a polling place tent for the first time in recent memory to encourage more students to vote, BOE chair Douglas Bell said.
The new Student Government Board of Elections Chair Douglas Bell reinstated write-in candidates on March 26 to allow other students not on the ballot to run in the spring election. The BOE decision came after the Undergraduate Senate passed a directive asking him to add write-ins into the election policy.
Students will be able to vote on University divestment from fossil fuel stocks on April 2 and 3 after the Undergraduate Senate approved the "Referendum on a Fossil Free American University"
The Undergraduate Senate created a new, redesigned Board of Elections after it removed the former BOE members from power March 3.
Spring elections have been moved back to April 1 and April 2, following Student Government’s delayed passage of its spring election policy book on Feb. 24, according to an SG press release.
Student Government sent out a wait-list for unused Founders’ Day Ball tickets on Feb. 16 so students will have another opportunity to get tickets if they missed the Founders’ Day tabling sessions outside the Campus Bookstore.
Student Government postponed the vote on the Board of Election’s new spring election policies until Feb. 24, which could delay the spring elections, according to Board of Elections chair Michael Morgante.
The Undergraduate Senate passed a resolution on Feb. 10 to ban offensive items in University fitness centers in response to a Phi Sigma Kappa shirt worn in Jacobs Fitness Center encouraging sorority girls not to eat.
UPDATE: Feb. 13, 12:58 a.m.
Student Government will form a committee to investigate where students’ tuition dollars are going, according to Class of 2013 Sen. Eric Reath.
Student Government moved the constitution reform referendum vote back after the Board of Elections postponed the campaigns for and against the reform on Jan. 25 and two BOE members resigned on Jan. 26.
AU College Democrats refused to endorse the Student Government constitutional reform in a statement released on Jan. 23.
As the spring semester begins, Student Government faces a host of new issues. The constitutional reform referendum was officially passed on Jan. 20 by the Senate, Speaker Joe Wisniewski unexpectedly resigned and the organization’s website crashed over break.
Student organizations scheduling events will soon see more choices and wait less for confirmation, according to the University Center.
AU’s Men of Strength, a proactive club against sexual assault and violence, launched a bystander intervention program Jan. 31 with George Washington University, Georgetown University and three local high schools.
Bernard Schulz, special assistant to the vice president of Campus Life, gave a shout-out to American University Aug. 8 on the classic game show “The Price is Right,” before winning a trip to Dubai, a treadmill, an electric motorcycle and a pool table.
AU’s Communications and Marketing office hopes to start an annual tradition with AU’s second holiday video card to be aired in mid-December.