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SEPT 5, 2003 WWW.GUILFORDIAN.COM Senate restructures to ignite interest Seth Van Horn Staff Writer Community Senate, Guilford's stu dent governmental organization, was so poorly attended last year it could 'barely func tion. To encourage attendance and try to make it easier for stu dents to have their voic es heard, last year's Senate voted to change their representation sys tem. People who ran or voted in the elections on Tuesday viewed the results. There will now be four rotating seats. Students may register for a single senate meeting if they want to bring up an issue or vote on a topic they find particularly important, said Senate Vice-presi Gwako receives grant Continued from page 1 students with an informed understand ing," said Gwako. Gwako hopes the project will also bring greater understanding of research methods. Students who join Gwako benefit because they will learn how to analyze data. "The part I found most interesting is the fact that students will have the opportunity to formulate their own the dent Tamara Asad dur ing the senate meeting on Aug. 27. Classes no longer have representa tives. Instead groups of clubs with similar basis will have one or more senate seats. For instance, ail "awareness clubs," which include a.i.d.s About AIDS, Gender Awareness, and SAFE, have a single representative. The clubs were categorized by Asad, and are sub ject to revision. "That doesn't mean they all have the same issues; they're dif ferent groups, but it will be helpful for different groups to come togeth er, promoting communi cation between the groups and at the same time having representa tion in Senate. But at sis from collected data and the freedom to col lect their own data," said senior SOAN student Debbie Harris. To be eligible to go to Kenya, Guilford students must be honor students working on a thesis. It would be preferable that they are SOAN majors, but it is open to students from all departments. How the students will be cho sen has not been deter mined yet. NEWS the same time, of course, if they disagree on something they still have the rotating four seats," said Asad. The club cate- • gories include a "special interest" category. This classification was added by executive decision of Asad and Senate President Floyd McKissick 111 the night before the election. "This is a group for any member of a club who doesn't feel as though they fit into the said Asad. There are also eight athletic student appointments, four for each semester. Student athletes will hold their seats for the semester their sport is not in sea son. They switch half way through the year so that their Senate partici pation will not conflict with their practice schedules. "It would be use ful to get someone on the budget committee," said Jeff Frisbee, a member of the football and cheerleading teams and of the rugby club. "I mean, we don't need a whole bunch of people on there, but the rugby team needs some new jerseys," said Frisbee. Just like last year, there are still seats for an international student, transfer student, . 4 , \-v. - >■ . "$Z'Z£ - r - HEr W , Seth Van Horn Emily Rush casts her Senate ballot in Founders GLBTQA senator, and chairs of other Guilford Committees, like an Academic Affairs chair and a Secretary of Union chair. Dorms still elect representatives, but they have only a single rep resentative apiece, reduced from the three seats Binford, Bryan, and Milner had last year. There is only one day-student representa tive this year, cut from last year's two. There are two students of color representatives, increased from last year's one. All the changes bring the total number of Senate seats to 48, eight more seats than last year. "This reorganiza tion of the representa tion is designed so that the senators have a constituency group which to go to discern the issue that gets GREENSBORO, NC brought to the table. So, in that regard, it should hopefully increase participation and the effectiveness of Senate," said Senate advisor Rebecca Saunders. The Senate Executive Council, com posed of the Senate president, vice presi dent, treasurer, and sec retary, also hopes to encourage attendance through this restructur ing. "We had such poor attendance toward the end of last year that we couldn't get anything done, because we needed at least one third of the people there to vote and still be Quakerly," said Senate Fall Treasurer, Cassandra Baker. Continued on page 3 PAGE 2
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