2008 Woodie Awards
SGA quorum meets with resounding 'yay'
Krystel Pakitsos
Issue date: 2/21/08 Section: Campus Life
Members of the Student Government Association were pleased to make quorum at Wednesday night's meeting when the final senator needed to make quorum showed up and the group broke out in a unanimous "yay."
SGA had not been able to make quorum in its last five meetings.
Starting off, Eddie Penner, vice president, announced that he and Jeremy Johnson, president, had a meeting for tuition committee last Friday. Penner explained that even though the meeting was mostly introductory, John Patterson, vice president of administration and campus life, said that he expected that the tuition increase for next year should be the smallest increase since the 2001-2002 school year. Patterson said he thinks he's looking at 5 to 6 percent increase as opposed to the usual 6.5 percent.
In other business:
-Mark Johnson, faculty senator, announced that he wants SGA to become more unified with the Tilford Group, a faculty-based group that focuses on increasing cultural activities on campus and supporting international and multicultural issues.
"Our point is to spread the word and help people be aware of other cultures, of other habits and what other people do,"
Johnson said. "What can we do to promote that so that students and faculty come together in the same arena?"
Johnson suggested having a co-sponsored student-faculty engagement such as a picnic at the University Lake.
-Brett Shamblin, senator, asked members of SGA if there were any extra safety precautions being taken on campus after having two school shootings in the U.S. in the same year.
"With two pretty serious school shootings in the same year, has anything been done?" Shamblin asked.
Andrea Cole, campus affairs director, said that she would be meeting with Howard Smith, assistant to the president, to find out what the university is doing to protect PSU. She also asked Smith if there were any safety precautions that SGA could help put into action and said she would inform SGA of Smith's response.
-The next SGA meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Balkans Room of the student center. Students needing to address a campus issue are invited to attend.
SGA had not been able to make quorum in its last five meetings.
Starting off, Eddie Penner, vice president, announced that he and Jeremy Johnson, president, had a meeting for tuition committee last Friday. Penner explained that even though the meeting was mostly introductory, John Patterson, vice president of administration and campus life, said that he expected that the tuition increase for next year should be the smallest increase since the 2001-2002 school year. Patterson said he thinks he's looking at 5 to 6 percent increase as opposed to the usual 6.5 percent.
In other business:
-Mark Johnson, faculty senator, announced that he wants SGA to become more unified with the Tilford Group, a faculty-based group that focuses on increasing cultural activities on campus and supporting international and multicultural issues.
"Our point is to spread the word and help people be aware of other cultures, of other habits and what other people do,"
Johnson said. "What can we do to promote that so that students and faculty come together in the same arena?"
Johnson suggested having a co-sponsored student-faculty engagement such as a picnic at the University Lake.
-Brett Shamblin, senator, asked members of SGA if there were any extra safety precautions being taken on campus after having two school shootings in the U.S. in the same year.
"With two pretty serious school shootings in the same year, has anything been done?" Shamblin asked.
Andrea Cole, campus affairs director, said that she would be meeting with Howard Smith, assistant to the president, to find out what the university is doing to protect PSU. She also asked Smith if there were any safety precautions that SGA could help put into action and said she would inform SGA of Smith's response.
-The next SGA meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Balkans Room of the student center. Students needing to address a campus issue are invited to attend.
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