Battling over concerts and exec salaries

Battling over concerts and exec salaries
Council Clippings Undergraduate Student Government Wrap-up

By Steve Slawsky
USG Correspondent
ATLANTA
November 20, 1998

	By Daniel Uhlig/ STUDENT PUBLICATIONS
	Undergraduate Student Government Chief of Staff Wendy Horowitz, an IE Junior, stands to make her point during the discussion about the Women's Awareness Week bill at last Tuesday's Council meeting.

In the wake of a work-filled weekend which included Tech's hosting of the successful ACC Leadership Conference, the Undergraduate Student Council completed its business by first welcoming two new members to its legislative body: Jennifer Koenig (jennifer.koenig@sga), the Textiles and Textiles Engineering representative, and Robert Hill (robert.hill@sga), the LCC/STAC representative.

Following a Special Report on the implementation of Tech's Master Plan, Council overwhelmingly passed a bill allocating $5,000 to the new Mini Baja Team.

Funds were also approved for the purchase of two SGA office computers.

The Women's Awareness Week committee respectfully withdrew its bill for a concert during this celebrational week, as the issue of the coordination of campus concerts was raised. Several Council members felt many groups aspire to host concerts and other staged programs, but few of those aspirations become reality, and then, with limited success.

As the success of this season's Tech basketball team is on the horizon, the Athletic Services Committee encourages all groups, chartered or unchartered, to complete an application for block seating, available in Student Services 131.

Semester conversion is also on the horizon, and the Joint Campus Organizations Committee is available to assist student organizations as they work to become semester compliant within their constitutions. Please contact Co-Chairs Kalpana Patel (kalpana.patel@sga) or Grant Michalski (grant.michalski@sga) for assistance. USG will vote on its own constitutional amendments to become semester compliant next Tuesday, November 24.

The docket for Tuesday exhibits the rush of business that accompanies the close of every quarter. Over $70,000 in bills will be requested and voted upon.

In addition, the creation of new funded positions within USG will be debated, as well as a resolution on semester free elective hours, authored by the Academic Priorities Committee, which may offer consolation to ROTC students, considering a previous resolution on priority registration for ROTC students did not pass. All USG agendas, minutes, bills, and resolutions are posted to and discussed on the newsgroup git.sga.issues. Make sure to check out the results from the USG Issues Table survey on page 2 of this issue.

Copyright © 1998 by Gregory S. Scherrer, Editor and by the Student Publications Board

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