Nick Marotta ‘20 (left) and Amanda Marino ‘21(right). Photo courtesy of Nick Marotta and Amanda Marino. Student senators Nick Marotta and Amanda Marino are two of the candidates running for president and vice president in the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate general election. Marotta and Marino took 55 percent of the vote in the…
The University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate on Wednesday night spoke about re-recognition of clubs that are to be voted on next week. Bills calling for recognition of six clubs as student organizations are to be voted on next week. Included in this list were Kin Club, URI Neuroscience Club and Middle Eastern Student Association….
The University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate failed to pass a bill calling for a referendum on issues regarding student pay during this week’s meeting. This bill failed 7-10, with seven senators abstaining. The bill would poll the student body on the issue of student pay and hire a specific administrator to address the inequity…
During this week’s meeting of the University of Rhode Island Student Senate, the bill calling for the implementation of a new constitution was passed. This new constitution will reflect changes made during the past several meetings of Student Senate. A bill calling for the referendum polling the student opinion on increasing the Club Sports and…
The University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate spent a substantial amount of time this week working on their constitution again. Student Senate failed to pass the bill calling for the implementation of a new constitution because numerous senators were absent, required to abstain, or simply abstained from voting and failed to reach quorum. A motion…
In this week’s meeting of the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate, three and a half hours were spent to pass four bills. Finance Committee Chair Zachary Taylor announced that he would be running for Student Senate President with Senator John Bagley as his running mate. During his speech, Taylor expressed that it has been…
The resolution calling for “the protection of transgender, gender queer and intersex people” was passed during the meeting, with 10 senators abstaining from the vote. Senator Jay Rumas motioned to vote on this resolution by roll call on the grounds that “student governments have been playing a big role in pushing this issue.” A resolution…
Photo by Anna Meassick | Student Senate made the decision to change terms of student organization funding. Cigarlight story by Andrew Main and Julia Moro The University of Rhode Island Student Senate has altered their policy on how student organizations receive funding following claims that their funding policies violated the First Amendment. Several groups that…
At this week’s meeting of the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate, several representatives were elected and the bill calling for the annual re-recognition of student organizations was passed. Student Senate President Adriana Wilding presented a tuition increase of 2.8 percent for in-state students and 2.5 percent for out-of-state students approved for fiscal year 2020…
In this week’s meeting of the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate, the Finance Committee Chair Zachary Taylor had much to say during public forum regarding the resignation of Senate members and the atmosphere in the Senate chambers. During this term, there have been 13 general Senate member resignations and five executive member resignations. This…