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Senate Meeting Rundown

Last night’s senate meeting was like pulling a band-aid, quick and painful. The meeting started on a focus to keep up the ever falling ASUO senator retention rate. So far five senators have resigned, this leaves a lot of work for the senate to fill up those holes before budget season starts this winter.  It seems like last weekends senate retreat could not help the retention rate as a mere 50% of the ASUO senators attended the retreat.

The upcoming Powershift conference received funding through a CAER line item request. The conference expects hundreds of students from all over the west coast to attend. The Powershift movement is focused on addressing climate change.

The majority of senate meeting was comprised of rule changes to the senate rules. This is more of a formality in the student senate. The longer the rule changes went on the more I thought about stabbing my thigh with a pen for fun. The highlight came when the senate got to the section about student stipends. They have not made a formal decision about what model to use for stipends, more on this later. I did learn however that ASUO president Emma Kallaway calculates that with her stipend and presidential duties she makes $3.25 an hour. She should have modeled her  campaign in the ThunderLove mold and increased presidential stipends %10,000 percent. Then she would make $32,500 an hour.

The highlight for me was my first dive into the world of twitter. Expect to see the twitter account being used more often during ASUO senate meetings.

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