Student Senate Update: 2/28/13

          At this week’s short Student Senate meeting, the Senate heard updates from University Program Council, International Film Series, Leadership for Educational Action Fund and the Election Committee.

            The UPC’s sold out spring concert is set for Sunday night in the Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion featuring Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. This Friday will be the last chance for students to win a chance to meet the artists before the concert. All students have to do is like UPC’s Facebook page to be eligible to win. 

            IFS will be screening its first two movies of the spring semester starting with “The Impossible” Wednesday, Feb. 28 and Thursday, March 1. The second screening will be “Saving Face” Wednesday, March 6 and Thursday, March 7. All screenings start at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays and are shown twice at 7 and 9:15 p.m. on Thursdays in the Lindou Auditorium located in the lower level of Michener Library.

            At the last Student Senate meeting LEAF announced they would be putting recycling and animal waste stations throughout campus. This week LEAF has been busy putting the final touches on the project, and students should be seeing the stations throughout campus within the next week.

            “We are in the process of getting everything finalized and put together for the recycling and animal waste stations,” said director of student affairs Nick Loveridge.

            Election season is about to be in full swing on campus. At this week’s meeting, Senate made changes to the campaigning process allowing new candidates to campaign at anytime during the election process. Previously, candidates could not begin to campaign until after the marketing and campaigning meeting on March 6.

            There are nine elected offices that new candidates will be running for this election season. The offices include the seven directors, the student body president and the student trustee.

            “It takes some effort to be eligible to run for a senate position, and it’s not something candidates can do over night,” said election commissioner Lauren Zdanowitz.

            The 30-minute meeting was concluded with acknowledgments and an announcement that members of the senate will be going out on campus in the next few weeks talking to students about what the senate could be doing better.

The next Student Senate meeting is 5:30 p.m. March 6 in the University Center Council Room. For more information about Student Senate visit their website at www.unco.edu/studentsenate/.