Last week’s Student Govern-ment Association meeting for Nov. 20 opened without quorum.
Since the required number of senators needed to conduct business was not present; the Senate heard announcements from the Executive Branch and listened to its guest speakers.
Vice President Jennifer Berry thanked all the senators and executive branch members involved in the ETSU Giving Campaign for all their work.
She also highlighted the amount raised, saying, “The Giving Campaign ended on Thursday (Nov. 15), and I think we received right around $900.”
There were five guest speakers on the agenda for this meeting: Dr. Steve Bader, senior associate vice president of Student Affairs; Larry Keplinger, director of Public Safety; Dr. Tony Warner, director of the Culp Center; Dr. Bonnie Burchett, associate director of Housing; and Jack Cotrel, associate director of Public Safety.
These speakers were brought before the Senate as a continuation of a series of guest speakers being brought in from the different university departments.
The first group of guest speakers came from the department of budget and finance, while this group came from the Student Affairs office.
This series of guest speakers is allowing SGA to become familiar with the different departments as well as to bring their concerns to the appropriate personnel.
During the meeting, several items were discussed.
One of these was the implementation of charges for printing in the computer lab.
Warner, who has kept up to date about the issue, explained what was most likely going to occur next semester.
“We have installed a new software package that will monitor the printouts,” Warner said. “They’re going to allocate you $25 of what I call funny money, then they’re going to charge you 5 cents per [printout].”
He said after a student uses his or her allocated $25 they will then have to pay for the additional printouts.
He highlighted that 500 was the tentative number of print outs that students were most likely going to get in a semester without having to pay additional money.
Warner said the reason for this charge is that students printed 3.5 million pages last year. “It costs a fortune in paper and toner,” he said.
Another key issue brought up was the change in visitation policy that was going to come about in the residents halls.
Burchett explained the upcoming changes to the Senate. She said the Tennessee Board of Regents approved a change in the residence hall visitation policy to allow co-ed halls and 24-hour visitation.
She said that Lucille Clement Hall would be converted to co-ed living by floor. “We want to give options to both students who do want [24-hour visitation] and those who don’t.”
Consequently, the dorms will be allowed to choose their visitation policy.
Other issues brought up concerned a proposed computer lab in Lucille Clement, the severe parking problems at the Buc Ridge apartments, and the need for feminine disposal boxes in all the women’s bathrooms across the campus.

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