Senators discuss SGA week events, ballot referendums
Rachel Swafford
Issue date: 3/26/09 Section: News
In their Tuesday meeting Student Government Association senators preparesfor SGA week and passed referendum asking for student input.
Finishing touches on SGA week and many events are planned to get students revved up about SGA.
The main action of the week will peak with SGA officer elections Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Votes can be placed online.
Events for SGA week include a cookout in Heritage Plaza Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Culture Fest in Heritage Plaza, Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The election results party will begin Friday at 4:30 p.m. in the Signal Mountain Room of the UC.
In other business, outstanding professor awards nominations, sponsored by the academic affairs Committee, are due Friday, at 5 p.m.
Nikki Giovanni will speak Thursday at 7 p.m. in the UC Auditorium. Giovanni is a Tennessee native from Knoxville.
Giovanni's poetry reflects the black art movement and the civil rights struggle. She has published more than 14 volumes of poetry beginning with "Black Feeling, Black Thought" in 1968, to most recently "Love Poems," published in 1997
Doors open at 6 p.m. for this event, cosponsored by SGA.
The UC Auditorium is expected to fill up quickly with overflow to be provided in the Tennessee Room.
Senate approved referendum to the spring SGA ballot consisting of changes to the Student Government Constitution.
In the referendum, the position of student body projects chairperson is up for elimination. It was previously decided the position may be unnecessary.
The referendum also asks students to approve the elimination of the SGA entertainment committee in favor of one SGA senator who acts as liaison between SGA and the association for campus entertainment.
SGA president, Scott Stuart, a Maryville, Tenn., senior said with the referendum, the money previously allocated to SGA's entertainment committee will instead be given to the association for campus entertainment.
SGA will in turn have oversight of association for campus entertainment's budget.
Stuart said this change will better serve students because the association for campus entertainments's entire function is to focus on entertainment whereas SGA's primary function is to advocate for student needs and interest.
Finishing touches on SGA week and many events are planned to get students revved up about SGA.
The main action of the week will peak with SGA officer elections Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Votes can be placed online.
Events for SGA week include a cookout in Heritage Plaza Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Culture Fest in Heritage Plaza, Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The election results party will begin Friday at 4:30 p.m. in the Signal Mountain Room of the UC.
In other business, outstanding professor awards nominations, sponsored by the academic affairs Committee, are due Friday, at 5 p.m.
Nikki Giovanni will speak Thursday at 7 p.m. in the UC Auditorium. Giovanni is a Tennessee native from Knoxville.
Giovanni's poetry reflects the black art movement and the civil rights struggle. She has published more than 14 volumes of poetry beginning with "Black Feeling, Black Thought" in 1968, to most recently "Love Poems," published in 1997
Doors open at 6 p.m. for this event, cosponsored by SGA.
The UC Auditorium is expected to fill up quickly with overflow to be provided in the Tennessee Room.
Senate approved referendum to the spring SGA ballot consisting of changes to the Student Government Constitution.
In the referendum, the position of student body projects chairperson is up for elimination. It was previously decided the position may be unnecessary.
The referendum also asks students to approve the elimination of the SGA entertainment committee in favor of one SGA senator who acts as liaison between SGA and the association for campus entertainment.
SGA president, Scott Stuart, a Maryville, Tenn., senior said with the referendum, the money previously allocated to SGA's entertainment committee will instead be given to the association for campus entertainment.
SGA will in turn have oversight of association for campus entertainment's budget.
Stuart said this change will better serve students because the association for campus entertainments's entire function is to focus on entertainment whereas SGA's primary function is to advocate for student needs and interest.
