Student Union

If you've read Student Life today, you've seen that six seniors on the Senior Class trip in Chicago this weekend were racially discriminated against at a bar (http://www.studlife.com/news/2009/10/18/students-protest-race-discrimination-at-bar-in-chicago-during-senior-class-trip/).  The news release Senior Class President Fernando Cutz sent to 26 media outlets yesterday morning is attached below as well.  In response, Senator Jake Laperruque is co-sponsoring a resolution on the issue with Fernando, which Senate will see on Wednesday-- this is also attached below.  Jake, Senator Matt Aiken, and I will also be investigating racial profiling at Wash U over the next week or two.  Please come and let Senate know your feelings on the issue at our meeting Wednesday at 9PM in Simon 113, or email us beforehand at senate@su.wustl.edu .

Senate will also be reviewing election reform legislation tabled from last week's meeting.  In addition, Senate passed a number of reforms at our meeting last week that Treasury will be voting on tomorrow night.  All are included in the document that is attached.

Hello Everyone,

Budget Committee is now accepting applications for the open seats on the committee! Budget Committee (BC) is one of three standing committees of the Student Union Treasury. BC's purpose is to distribute Student Union funds in a semesterly budgeting process to SU Student Groups. BC sets guidelines for budgeting at the beginning of each semester and applies them through the budgets.

The final application deadline is Friday, 9/18. And please note that applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. If you have any questions about the committee or the application process, please feel free to email us: budget@su.wustl.edu!

Sincerely,

Eliot Walker and Belina Yi

Hey Everyone!

We want you to apply for the Equipment Comittee (application attached to blog post). The Equipment Committee is a new standing committee of Treasury that is charged with

1) working with student groups to develop strategic equipment purchasing plans,
2) ensure that purchased equipment is fully funded by Student Union,
3) keep an inventory of all equipment purchsed with the Student Activity Fee,
4) and help student groups to use equipment by referring them to other student groups that rent equipment and by developing new process for renting and storing equipment when necessary.

The chairs of this committee are Daniel Bernard and Peter Glaser. Since this committee is new, it is very important that we start quickly and correctly. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis (attached to this blog post).

Please email equipment@su.wustl.edu if you have ANY questions.  Look forward to seeing your application!

Hello Everyone,

The Student Group Activities Committee (SGAC) is now accepting applications for open seats on the committee. For those of you who don't know, SGAC is a Treasury committee that acts as a liaison between all 200+ student groups on campus and Student Union. The committee decides which groups obtain SU recognition, plan the activities fair and president and treasurer's training, deregister inactive groups, serve as a resource for student groups, and much more.

We will be having our first meeting Sunday, August 30th upstairs in the SU
office, located in the DUC, at 2pm where you can see the committee in action, learn more about SGAC, and get any questions you might have answered. We will be seeing two actual groups so attending the meeting would be a great chance to gain more insight into what SGAC does before deciding whether or not you would like to apply.

An application has been attached below. Please return completed applications to sgac@su.wustl.edu or turn paper copies in to the SGAC mailbox located on the 2nd floor of the SU office. Applications are due September 8th at 5 pm.

Dear Student Group Leaders:

If your group is interested in bringing an Assembly Series speaker to campus for the spring semester, please go to http://su.wustl.edu/assembly-series-speaker-application to apply. All applications must be submitted by October 1, 2009.

As you may recall, we have developed a new process for bringing Assembly Series speakers to campus beginning in the Spring 2010 semester. First, the Assembly Series Committee will review each application and recommend to Treasury those that meet the appropriate criteria. Treasury will then consider applications recommended by the Assembly Series Committee for funding from a special $100,000 Assembly Series Speakers appeals account. 

This new process only applies to Assembly Series speakers. Appeals other types of programming will continue to go through the normal Treasury appeals process.

If you want to know more about the new process for Assembly Series speakers, please go to http://su.wustl.edu/blog/proposed-changes-to-the-funding-of-speakers. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Speaker of the Treasury, Neehar Garg, at treasury@su.wustl.edu