The recently announced tobacco ban has been an extremely controversial subject over the past week. As a result, on Wednesday at 9:30 in DUC 276, Senate will be holding an open forum to discuss student opinion regarding the ban. We will also discuss the appropriate response to both the ban itself and the process by which the decision was made. This will directly follow a presentation from Executive Vice Chancellor Hank Webber at 9PM, in which he will address the state of sustainability at WashU and the delay in presenting the university's Strategic Sustainability Plan. We will begin the forum with about 15 minutes of gauging student response to the ban, but the majority of the time will focus on figuring out the appropriate response while taking student input at the same time.
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