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(K)f flails for Rret Bobby and Jenny have organized more events than their recent predecessors. But the class gift was a bit of a disappointment, and it’s still not clear how it will be funded. The class officers need to keep up the good work with social and service events while they try to make progress with a senior class speaker. , , ...W * Eyi ISSUES Push for a child care center that graduate students readily can use as an alternative to expensive services. Find advocates for graduate student interests and concerns on the Board ofTrustees. Work with undergraduate student officials to push for consideration of graduate students in tuition talks. Push for graduate students to be able to buy spousal tickets to basketball games. Get graduate students more involved in campus affairs so that they can represent their own interests. 1 I Overall Average: £ • ISSUES Generate interest in RHA programming while not wasting student fees. Fill important positions and increase RHA members’ involvement in the association’s work. Coordinate worthwhile and interesting activities for residents to participate in. Keep Cobb and Odum residents from being shorted the RHA services that everyone else gets. Advocate for student concerns in the areas over which RHA holds any kind of influence. Overall Average: 1 3 Mike Brady GPSF PRESIDENT The Graduate and Professional Student Federation is hard-pressed to deal with set backs in tuition, the need to raise stipends and to better child care options. Brady doesn’t seem to have the initiative for the tasks. COMMENTS There needs to be a solution that can be implemented sooner than making space at Carolina North. Brady’s appearance before the BOT was a good effort, but it still looks like graduate students will get the shaft. The GPSF and student government seem to have different priorities, and graduates are unlikely to get mufch help from that quarter. The GPSF and CAA have been able to come together to start a trial program of allowing spousal tickets. With only one graduate running for a dozen open seatSirStaAait Congress, graduate students juiff aren’t getting integrated. Chasity Wilson RHA PRESIDENT Residence Hall Association President Chasity Wilson has been doing a good job of strengthening RHA’s current programs but could be more innovative and a stronger advocate for students in campuswide issues. Activities requests are up from last year, and events with low attendance last year such as Traditions Night were cancelled. All of the governorships are currently filled, even with communities such as Cobb that have been disrupted by construction. RHA co-sponsored events at Liveß, Race Relations Week, Culture in the Quad and World AIDS Day. Cobb and Odum communities have enhancements, and there were programs in Baity Hill when undergraduates were there. While RHA members serve on a number of could take a higher profile staraft on Mire ongoing issues. Fall Report Cards Bobby Whisnant, Jenny Peddycord SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS ISSUES Find a Senior Class Speaker to complement Commencement celebrations with a student-oriented speaker. Facilitate the gift selection process and raise the needed funds to allow the senior class to leave its mark on campus. Provide opportunities for the Class of 2006 to give back to the community through service to others. Organize a variety of social outings and events that seniors will find interesting and attend. Have a specific plan for next semester’s activities, and get on the ball about raising money for all of this semester’s projects. COMMENTS Overall Average: ISSUES Run a smooth distribution for men’s basketball tickets. Address charges that the group keeps too many tickets from the student pool for itself. Stay in touch with the student body to keep it informed about ticket opportunities. Graduate students have been vocal about wanting basketball tickets to sit with their spouses. Increase spectator participation in sporting events other than men’s basketball and football. I- * V t nmff 1 HT' * 11 ‘t 1 ISSUES Address concerns about flaws and discrepancies that exist in the Student Code. Get active representatives to fill all of the Congress seats for every district. Maintain as high a level of efficiency as possible during Student Congress meetings. Allocate money from student activity fees fairly among various student organizations. Lobby the General Assembly on behalf of UNC and the interests of the student body. COMMENTS Bobby and Jenny have yet to firm up an agreement with any performers or speakers, but they have been in contact with the Office of the Provost and others to secure funding. The gift options were disappointing this year, with a welcoming sign being selected. In addition, Bobby and Jenny have a long way to go before they have the money to build it. With the Pathfinders program, the week of service and hurricane relief efforts, the class officers have been veiy active and have a whole list of service projects for next semester. Bobby and Jenny’s social and special projects committee have thrown bar nights, a Halloween party and Fall Cocktail, giving seniors a wide array of social events to choose from. The class officers have things such as Last Blast and book drives for needy kids planned. But Bobby and Jenny need to start finding money for a speaker and the class gift. Justin Johnson CAA PRESIDENT Justin Johnson’s tenure as CAA president has been exceptional thus far, marred only by CAA taking a surprisingly large number of tickets for the anything but Common Homecoming Concert. JF ‘fill Overall Average: ' AiWm Student Congress LED BY LUKE FARLEY With a lackluster student body president, Speaker of Student Congress Luke Farley stands alone as the de facto leader among the three branches. Also, the whole body of Congress has stayed active and productive. Overall Average: JDt" WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2005 COMMENTS Johnson has, by most accounts, had well run ticket distributions that have been relatively free of abuse. Johnson collaborated with Student Congress to reduce the number of tickets CAA receives from 140 to 86. Constant letters to the editor and taking out ads in the DTH are good additions to the publicity on the CAA listserv. CAA has begun a trial of having about 100 tickets that can be purchased for some games for student ticket-holders’ spouses. Carolina Fever membership has increased by 200 people this year, resulting in higher turnout at non revenue-generating events. COMMENTS Congress is again revising portions of the Code particularly the part pertaining to elections. Hopefully it’ll be improved. Undergraduate seats are filled, and members that weren’t active have resigned. Graduate students have a number of empty seats. Farley has been able to get Congress meetings over before 3 a.m. and largely avoid inefficiency, unlike last year. Few complaints have come forward about appropriations, and there have been no overruns, such as with previous Congresses. Farley and members of Congress lobbied legislatotiphnriaM: the summer budget talks. ig S 7
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