From the Senate Chambers this week: Vice President of Administration and Finance Abigail Rider presented an update on campus parking, a senator was reinstated after the Assembly unanimously passed his appeal and the official senate elections were postponed indefinitely. Rider delivered the response of Transportation and Parking, which she oversees, to an action bill passed…

This week’s Student Senate meeting included internal elections for representatives, presentations from President Marc Parlange and other administrators and passing a bill to recognize The Daily Ram as a recognized student organization. The Senate held its first round of internal votes for new representatives, confirming 12 potential candidates. Current nominees include James Scotti, Zach Breene,…

During this week’s Student Senate meeting, four new bills were passed, two of which were Senate recognition of new clubs. Director of Treasury Chris Hoover endorsed a new bill he wrote, handled by Senator Anabelle Gibson and sponsored by four other senators. The bill’s primary purpose is to address several issues pertaining to parking, traffic…

This week at the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate meeting, Campus Affairs Committee Chair Emily Gamache announced that a Blue Light Walk will take place Oct. 14. The purpose of this walk is to check the functionality of the safety phones on campus. Additionally, Senator Christopher Bove was voted in as speaker of the…

The Senate passed one bill and deliberated on several plans and ideas in their first meeting of the semester. The Senate unanimously passed a new bill to allocate $5,000 of Senate Reserve Funding to a pilot program that would give every URI student free transit on RIPTA. The bill wasn’t expected to be voted on…