Thursday, May 6, 2010
After most students leave for the summer, Student Body President Michael Wade Smith, Vice President Megan Ritter and several members of the Student Senate Executive Committee will continue working on campus issues.
Smith said one of the first issues he had already started on was his graduate campaign platform to create a position on the executive staff for a graduate student. He said that he met with the Graduate & Professional Association and the Graduate Student Executive Committee and that he thought the platform could be completed during the summer.
KUnited’s sustainability platform will also be addressed this summer. Smith said one of the coalition’s specific goals was for Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to sign the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.
He said he wasn’t sure whether it would happen this summer, but if it did, a formal signing ceremony would be in the fall.
“I think that could be something big and a statement we make publicly as senate and as a university,” Smith said.
Smith said other issues he and the executive staff would be working on were the Wescoe Underground expansion and a more comprehensive plan for new senator training.
— — Edited by Sarah Bluvas
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Graduate student positions top summer Senate agenda
Know what would have been good for this article? Mentioning how the bill to create the Graduate position was already introduced this past semester by Devon Cantwell, one of MWS's election rivals, and he shot it down.
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