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/. 

Student Senate Update: Feb 13 Senate Meeting

            During this week's Student Senate meeting, the Senate heard committee reports from the University Program Council, International Film Series, Leadership for Educational Action Fund and the Organization Funding Board. The Senate also approved two proposals heard at the last Student Senate meeting.

            On Monday Feb. 11, the UPC released 900 additional tickets to the annual spring concert due to new renovations in Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion. Originally, the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis concert was going to be held at Nottingham Field, but because of seating and weather issues the UPC decided to move the concert indoors.

Tickets for the concert sold out within 72 hours of going on sale, and UPC realized new renovations to Butler-Hancock allowed for an additional 900 tickets to be sold. According to UPC representative Lauren Koppel there are about 400 tickets still for sale at the University Center Ticket Office.

            “After a little research it is safe to say that this concert will be the most UNC students in any one place ever,” Koppel said.

            International Film Series released their spring movie lineup this week, and presented their new event to Student Senate. In addition to the eight movie screenings every Wed. and Thurs IFS will be hosting family nights March 13 and 14 while screening Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit. All IFS screenings start at 7 p.m. and are free for students but $3 for non-students.

            At the last Student Senate meeting LEAF proposed adding recycling and animal waste stations throughout campus. Senate approved the proposal for keeping UNC’s campus green and within the next few weeks students can find the recycling stations outside every major building and the animal waste stations in large grass areas like Turner Green, Cranford Park and Gunter Green.

            “Student proposals made this idea a reality,” said director of student affairs Nick Loveridge. “The next couple weeks students will be able to go green and clean up after their pets. We just need to finish some simple paperwork and the stations will start showing up.”

            After hearing from three different organizations at the last meeting, Student Senate heard from only one this week. The Mexican American Studies Club was approved $1,194.70 to put on their annual Celebration of the Arts event March 6. Senate was very happy to allocate the club money because it is one of the most attended events on campus.  

             Senate concluded the meeting with new business proposals for the next meeting 5:30 p.m. Feb. 27 in the University Center Council Room. For more information about Student Senate visit their website at www.unco.edu/studentsenate/.