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…
During their last meeting of the semester, the University of Rhode Island Student Senate held nominations for the Elections Committee. Student Organizations Committee Chairwoman Katie Siegle was nominated by Senator Katherine Blake, Senator Christopher Bove was nominated by Senator Anabelle Gibson and Blake was nominated by Siegle. All three candidates were elected to the committee,…
During this week’s meeting, the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate voted on committee chair nominations for the standing committees in the Senate. Katie Siegle, Kyra Shindler, Grace Kiernan, Angelica Tyson and Emily Gamache were elected as Student Organizations, Academic Affairs, External Affairs, Cultural Affairs and Campus Affairs chairwomen, respectively. The Student Senate spent a…
At the Student Senate’s annual meeting for the 2020-21 academic year, senators celebrated another successful year, said farewell to graduating seniors, swore in the new Student Senate and passed two bills. The Senate passed two bills at the beginning of the meeting to start two new organizations on campus, Timmy Global Health and URI Music…
During this week’s meeting, the University of Rhode Island Student Senate voted on a bill certifying the results of the spring 2021 Student Senate elections, which passed with 23 votes. The Student Senate also voted on a bill for a contingency grant requesting funds to help build an outdoor wellness center at the University. The…
During this week’s meeting, the Student Senate passed a resolution to encourage faculty to provide relief options to students due to the lack of a Spring Break this semester. “A few weeks ago, the Student Senate cabinet had a meeting with their Faculty Senate counterparts on alternatives to a spring break,” Speaker Caleb Hilyard said. …
The Student Senate passed two bills during this week’s meeting, dissolving the Instruments Committee and approving the menstrual product project in the Memorial Union. According to Instruments Committee Chair Christopher Bove, the Instruments Committee was implemented into the Student Senate constitution two years ago. “The Instruments Committee was never meant to be a committee to…
The Student Senate passed a resolution recommending the Senate’s on-campus housing waitlist priority during this week’s meeting. Instruments Committee Chair Christopher Bove and Moderator Caleb Hilyard introduced a resolution to announce the Student Senate’s recommendation for a new housing waitlist priority due to the changes made recently by the Department of Housing and Residential Life….
The majority of this week’s Student Senate meeting focused on the decisions made by the Department of Housing and Residential Life (HRL) regarding on-campus priority housing for next year. “[HRL] had to make a lot of adjustments in housing over the last year due to COVID,” Minor said. “I am sorry for that, if [the…