There are two things I learned from last night’s five hour senate meeting. First, the UO is one big pair of pants and the student groups are all different pockets. Secondly, covering the ASUO senate is a marathon, not a sprint.

The senates first priority was to approve Carina Miller to EMU board seat five, she was approved 16-0. Hailey Sheldon was next to be appointed, she was approved 17-0 to ACFC seat 8.

Next was the voting on senate chairs here’s a short summary of how it went down.

• Senate President: Nick Gower
• Senate Vice President Nick Schultz
• Ombudsperson: Alex McCafferty
• Treasurer: Lyzi Diamond
• Academic Chair Person: Amanda Hilts

Two special requests were passed. The first was the PRSSA asking for 3,735 in funds to go to a student conference in San Diego. The PRSSA received 2,475. The senate this year seems to be less lenient to grant whole funds requests for trips. If a student group wants to go on a conference trip with incidental fee money, they will have to get their act together. This means solid fundraising efforts and a real answer to how the conference attended by a small group will be able to affect the greater university community as a whole. The second request fund was $2,000 for Weaving New Beginings annual banquet. The request was fully funded and the banquet will take place next thursday. It starts at six in the banquet room and will honor local community heroes who have helped children reach higher education.

ConCourt nominees Andrew Washington, Casey Sanders and Casey King were all approved unanimously. The ConCourt nominees were chosen differently this year as President Kallaway removed herself from nomination process and abdicated her power to Vice President Getachew. All ConCourt nominees talked about the importance to make clear concise decisions while remaining viewpoint neutral.

Devon Duquette was elected to the PFC. Alison Brown approved to be the executive chair of the EMU board. Ben Eckstein was approved for the ACFC. Non of the executive appointments received a nay vote.

The executive special request for the New York Times was passed at $6,885 with a vote of 9-8. It does not look good for the future of the NYT on campus. The $24,000 request to keep the Knight Library open 24/5 passed 17-0, which will begin week 3 (next week).

Two down, twenty eight more to go.

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