GUSA Creates Fund for Student Clubs
The Georgetown University Student Association Senate passed an act on Sunday to establish the GUSA Fund, a supplementary source of funding for student clubs.
The Georgetown University Student Association Senate passed an act on Sunday to establish the GUSA Fund, a supplementary source of funding for student clubs.
In a meeting on Sunday, the Georgetown University Student Association Senate confirmed the results of special elections held to fill vacant senate seats.
The Georgetown University Student Association passed a resolution on Sunday that will allow the senate to discuss adding a more serious penalty for hate crimes in the Student Code of Conduct.
The Georgetown University Student Association Senate passed four acts on Sunday, including one calling for the interest accrued in the student activity fee endowment to be retained in that account.
The Senate voted Adam Talbot (COL ’12) as Senate speaker and Chris Pigott (COL ’12) as Senate vice-speaker.
Seven months after emerging victorious from a messy election, the chief executives of GUSA have fulfilled a number of their campaign objectives.
Georgetown students elected 22 of their classmates to serve as members of the Georgetown University Student Association Senate for the next year. Thirty-four students ran for 25 seats, and three of the seats were left vacant because of a lack of candidates.
Students voiced their concern about the need for a bus route to a supermarket in a survey conducted by GUSA this past July. In the survey, 93 percent of respondents agreed that students have a need for this new bus route.
The Georgetown University Student Association voted on Sunday to reduce the number of seats in the GUSA Senate in an effort to increase accountability. The new system, which will affect the October elections of the 2009-2010 GUSA Senate, reduces the number of senators from 36 to 25.
The Georgetown University Student Association passed three new bylaws at a special session on Tuesday in an effort to increase transparency, efficiency and accountability to students. The bylaws were discussed and voted on by last year’s senators, who will remain in their positions until elections later this month.