http://su.wustl.edu News and events from Your Student Government Student Union http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#374 Download a copy of the Freshman Class Council election packet by clicking here» 2008-08-26T00:08:00-05:00 374 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#373 Election Programming Calendar & Election Programming Committee Students and student groups can appeal to the Election Programming Committee for funds to program around the upcoming Vice Presidential Debates and the 2008 Presidential Election. University Initiative to Move Towards Reusable Water Bottles The Administration is making a move to encourage the user of reusable water bottles by ending the sell of plastic water bottles on campus. Student Union looks to partner with this initiative to inform students about the plan, ease the transition, and explore other projects to improve sustainability on campus. Chipotle Challenge Student Union is partnering with Chipotle and the Athletics Department to help promote school pride and spirit. As a result of the partnership, Chipotle will sponsor several athletic events throughout the year as well as big campus events like WILD and the Vice Presidential Debate Viewing Party. The range of the partnership will include a free chipotle day for Wash. U. students, giving out free Chipotle burritos to the first students to show up a certain events, free chipotle redemption days for students that come to select chipotle sponsored events, and giving away burrito parties to winners of halftime contests during some athletic games. Schedule of Chipotle events TBA. The Link The Link is a brand new service offered by Student Union to connect student to life on campus. The Link is a campus events calendar, student group management system and personal organizer that will make it easy for students to get involved and know whatâ??s happening on campus. The Link is scheduled to launch on August 27th. New SU Website Student Union has redesigned its website, making it a better resource for students and student groups. The new SU website will provide better navigation, more news about whatâ??s happening at the University, blog posts from Student Union representatives, and online versions of forms that student groups commonly use. The new SU Website is scheduled to launch on September 1st. Flash Drives for Freshman This fall, Student Union will provide all freshmen with a 512mb flash drive. The drives will contain information that is commonly given to freshman in paper forms as well as links to websites that freshman commonly use. The flash drive initiative aims to reduce the amount of paper that Student Union uses in printing publications like Bearings, the unofficial student handbook, as well as helping freshman to smoothly transition to the University. The flash drives can also be used to backup files and transfer them from computer to computer. Student Group Email Sometime in the fall, Student Union is planning to switch student group email to Gmail provided by Google Apps. This will present student groups with the opportunity to utilize services like Google Docs, Google Chat, Gmail, and Google Calendar for their student group while maintaining their @su.wustl.edu email address. Hopefully this move will be the start of conversations on how to improve campus email for all undergraduate students. GoCrossCampus (GXC) This fall, GoCrossCampus (GXC) will be hosted on campus again. The game is an attempt to build school spirit through the residential areas by having different residential colleges battle to take over the WU campus. Executive Committee/General Budget Process Restructuring Student Union will be restructuring the general budget process along with redefining what Executive Committees are. We will be working with current executive committees to develop a definition that meets the needs of specialized groups on campus, but is also fair to every student group. In addition, we will be working with all student groups, student union representatives, and students from the student body to improve the process that is used to present and approve the general budget. Student Union TV Show This fall, Student Union will debut a new weekly tv show to air on WUTV and KWUR. The goal of the show is to keep the student body informed what Student Union and the Administration is doing. The show will also help to make Student Union representatives more approachable. Danforth University Center Programming A committee has been formed to allocate money to student groups that wish to do programming in the Danforth University Center. Student Union Senate Restructuring This summer, the leaders of the Student Union Senate have been working hard to improve the internal processes of the body to make it more efficient and more accountable to students. 2008-08-23T00:08:00-05:00 373 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#370 Student Union General Election Results, March 26th and 27th, 2008 Student Union Executive President, Brittany Perez: 1590, 91.5% VP Administration, Jeff Nelson: 1373, 77.5% VP Administration, Colin Towery: 348, 19.6% VP Finance, Yewande Alimi: 1612, 94.9% VP Programming, Grant Logan Atilano Barbosa: 1619, 95.7% VP Public Relations, Neha Tibrewala: 1598, 95.2% Block Funding All block funding proposals received more than the required 2/3 vote and therefore are approved. Athletic Complex Improvements ($60,000) Yes: 1957, 93.4% No: 139, 6.6% S.A.R.A.H. Yes: 1494, 75.8% No: 476, 24.2% Habitat for Humanity ($.99 per student) Yes: 1510, 76.1% No: 475, 23.9% Senate Arts and Sciences (8 seats) Elected Alwn Loh, 643 Elected Kady McFadden, 524 Elected Jordan Aibel, 523 Elected Trevor Mattea, 449 Elected Chase Sackett, 448 Elected Robyn Michaelson, 434 Elected Reva J. Clemens, 409 Elected Adam Cohen, 399 Michael Post, 388 Lauren Brailey, 385 Greg Schweizer, 375 AJ Epel, 292 Business (2 seats) Sogol Ahmadinia, 163 Pham Ly, 157 Engineering (2 seats) Sunny Varshney, 300 Andrew Frangos, 292 Architecture Brett Simon, 43 Treasury (19 seats) Rachel Thompson, 1300 Ciara Caprara, 1260 Manjaap Sidhu, 1257 David Cohen, 1254 Michael Chen, 1249 Neehar Garg, 1244 Alex Lin, 1243 William Osberghaus, 1243 Brent Rubin, 1237 Maggy Randels, 1232 Frank Beling, 1227 Olivia Hassan, 1226 Jasmine Berg, 1217 Derek Lam, 1214 Jack Kider, 1210 Kim Yeh, 1204 Young Joo (Belina) Yi, 1203 (Write-in) Arjun Dhanik, 46 (Write-in) Bill Ronkoski, 26 2008-03-27T00:03:00-05:00 370 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#358 So You Want To Run For Office??? The SU Spring 2008 Elections are coming up. If you are interested in running for a position (Executive Council, School Council, Class Council, Senate, or Treasury) or if you want to petition for block funding you can find out more information in the Election Packet. The packet has tons of important information, tips, rules and answers to frequently asked questions. For more information, contact the Election Commissioners, Jason Short and Mark Dudley via email elections@su.wustl.edu 2008-02-20T00:02:00-05:00 358 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#350 Applications are now available for both the Student Group Activities Committee and the Budget Committee, the two standing committees of the Student Union Treasury. On the application, you will find a short description of each of the committees, as well as contact information for the Committee Chairs. Please do not hesitate to contact them with any questions! Applications should be returned to sgac@wustl.edu (for SGAC applications) or budget@wustl.edu (for BC applications) by January 25, 2008, at 5pm, and note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis (meaning once the seats are filled, we will no longer consider new applications). Budget Committee Application Student Group Activities Application 2008-01-15T00:01:00-05:00 350 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#340 In an effort to improve communication between students and various Information Technology departments on campus, Student Union has been diligently working with representatives from Student Technology Services(STS) and Network Telecommunication Systems(NTS) to provide transparent, and honest information about technology services, fees, and future plans to students. To that end, Andy Ortstadt has released a message to the student body that 1. details the Residential Technology fee increase for next semester, 2. highlights the services that come with the Residential Technology package, 3. gives a cost breakdown of the technology infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, 4. and discusses plans for incorporating the fee into Room & Board costs in the future. You can continue to check http://sts.wustl.edu for the most up to date information regarding Residential Technology services. Andy Ortstadt will be working with some student groups and other mediums to get this message out to more students in the coming weeks. If you believe that any information has not been communicated, please contact me at trc@su.wustl.edu so that I can make sure that it is taken care of. You can find Andy's message by going to http://sts.wustl.edu/files/STS_changes07.pdf 2007-11-13T00:11:00-05:00 340 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#337 For information about the student fees associated with the new residential technology implementation that occurred this summer, please click here » To request an additional connection (at no additional charge), please fill out this form » To request a Public IP Address, please fill out this form » Continue to stay tuned to http://sts.wustl.edu for the latest updates regarding Residential Technology. 2007-11-06T00:11:00-05:00 337 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#324 Every year Student Union recollects unspent funds from student group operating accounts and from this money the annual carryforward is created. This year's carryforward amount totaled $130,795.54. So far we have used this account to add $7,000.00 to the Collegiate Newspaper Readership resulting in more papers campus wide. Additionally, the money has been used to secure student group space in the new 560 Building on the Loop. Lastly, the remainder of the carryforward will be set aside to furnish group spaces in the new University Center. If you have any questions about the carryforward please feel free to contact the Student Union Treasurer . 2007-09-14T00:09:00-05:00 324 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#320 Student Union is in need of graphic designers to help us with public relations material. To give you an idea of what we need, we need students to help us redesign our website, create SU publications, help with the back page of Student Life (which SU reserves on Wednesdays), and other nifty public relations projects. Applicants should be experienced in Adobe CS Suite and Dreamweaver. This is a paid position. Please e-mail Neil Patel for more information. 2007-08-27T00:08:00-05:00 320 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#319 Although Senate elections are November 7th and 8th, we are pleased to announce that we have a few open Senate seats that we will appoint students to fill. We have two open Student Union Senate seats for the College of Arts and Sciences and one open seat for the College of Architecture. Please e-mail Carson Smith, Speaker of the Senate for more information on how to apply for the seats. You must be in the specific school the seat represents in order to apply for it. 2007-08-27T00:08:00-05:00 319 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#318 Thanks to the work of our Bearings Editor for the summer, Nic Albonico, Bearings is online at Bearings Online Please take a look around and let your friends know about it. 2007-08-27T00:08:00-05:00 318 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#313 In addition to those posted above, the following appeals have been approved by the Executive Council of Student Union during Summer 2007: Association of Black Students - Back to School Family Reunion, $700.00 Outing Club - Budget Appeal, $2,541.84 Washington Univ. Political Review - 3 Additional Issues, $3,841.76 Washington Univ. Traditional Karate - Speakers Meik & Diane Skoss, $800.00 The total amount allocated from the Appeals and Speakers account so far is $12,757.76 . While we were not able to strictly adhere to our goal of $10,000 for the summer all appeals heard were time sensitive and the Student Union Executive Council feels will greatly benefit the undergraduate student population. 2007-08-01T00:08:00-05:00 313 http://su.wustl.edu/news.php#281 Hello Student Groups! If your group currently HAS an Umrath Student Group Center Office Space, you are required to fill out this questionnaire by February 16th 2007. Thank you. If your group WANTS an Umrath Student Group Center Space, please fill out the following application. There is no deadline, and these applications will be considered on a rolling basis! Please submit your application to sgac@su.wustl.edu or to the Student Group Activities Committee (SGAC) Mailbox in the Student Union Office. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact SGAC. 2007-02-03T00:02:00-05:00 281