The Student Government Association discussed granting off-campus funds to clubs on campus, proposed new bills for review and discussed the upcoming elections at their Feb. 11 meeting.
After the call to order and roll call, Noah McGill, the vice president for finance and administration, announced the three student trustee finalists: Austin Ramsey, Seth Manning and Adegbemisola Aregbe. All votes unanimously affirmed the nominees.
Nick Shortridge, secretary of interior, announced the new members of the election commission.
“The election commission is made up of eight organizations,” said Shortridge. “We did have nine, but one backed out because they are not active this semester.”
Names of representatives from the Preview and Orientation Leaders Organization, the Residence Hall Association, College Panhellenic, Buctainment, the Interfraternity Council and Adult, Commuter and Transfer Services were called, and present representatives were sworn in. The Multicultural Greek Council is not active this semester, and they still do not have a representative for the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
SGA also voted to approve previously determined BUC Fund allowances to the Reed Club, Strategic Media Club, Adoration Life and Slocumb Galleries Student Guild. A unanimous vote passed all the budget requests.
During the meeting, two new bills were proposed for review.
The first proposal was to support closed captioning on ETSU-produced videos and materials for social media and instructional use.
“Closed captioning is not consistent among all university created or sponsored video content,” read McGill. “The scope of potential outreach of ETSU promotional videos can increase by the use of closed captioning by reaching a more diverse group of supports and other students.”
The second proposal was a resolution to make religious accommodation a part of the university attendance policy.
The proposals were sent off to their respective committees to be reviewed and discussed at a later meeting.
SGA President Aamir Shaikh discussed the upcoming Culp luncheon, notes given from ETSU President Brian Noland and projects currently at a stall. Some of those projects include the food recycling initiative and getting rid of third-party assignment vendors.
Jeff Howard, SGA advisor, concluded with a reminder about the upcoming elections. The final application for elections is due on Feb. 28, and students looking to be elected must attend either the March 4 or 5 meeting.
The SGA office is moving back to the Culp in the next two weeks, and senate meetings will begin taking place in the Culp by Feb. 25.
