The Echo

Issue date: 10/15/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Erica Tuggle The pen is mightier: Katie Strickland, junior, Columbia, Tenn., and Meg Tucker-Hall, junior, Nashville, write their suggestions to SGA.

Success was the word of the day for the Senate meeting of the Student Government Association at UTC.

Senator Kim Swift, a sophomore from Germantown, Tenn., spoke of the successful use of a whiteboard set up in the UC asking for student input to SGA.

Swift said, "There were tons of good responses."

Terry Denniston, assistant to the chancellor, commended SGA for spurring interest in the UTC alert system.

Several campus administrative bodies are in the process of putting up posters to promote the system, which alerts students to a variety of important situations on campus such as the recent power outage or serious campus security threats.

Denniston thanked SGA Senators for their interest because he said it made the production of the posters more of a priority than they had been before.

Porscha Boyd, a senior from Chattanooga and SGA liaison with the Association for Campus Entertainment, spoke to SGA about Frightfest, an annual two-day Halloween celebration.

"The Orphan," will be shown Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. in the UC Auditorium.

The following evening, SGA and ACE will host the Frightfest Scavenger Hunt from 10 p.m. to midnight. Prizes for the Scavenger Hunt include a Wii and Wal-Mart gift cards.

This week, the SGA also approved the UTC Academic Trivia Association as an official student organization.

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