Student Senate focused its meeting on internal elections. Senate had to vote from a large range of competitive applicants across four different positions: freshman representative, off-campus representative, on-campus representative and at-large representative. There were 12 applicants and only eight positions. In the freshman representative elections, there were two positions and the candidates included Kramer,…
Last night’s Student Senate meeting began with the finance committee’s discussion of a grant for the Musician’s Guild. Currently, the Musician’s Guild holds free concerts on campus with local bands. However, the organization wishes to grow and acquire bands outside the local spectrum for future concerts and this is where funding comes into play….
As many students at the University of Rhode Island consider the off-campus living option, one company has made this venture easier by being the first realtor to have an office on campus. Narragansett Property Management had only eight houses about five years ago and has now expanded to 240, according to principal owner and…
The Student Senate began its meeting with new Police Major Michael Jagoda. Jagoda is a former Connecticut State Police Commander with more than 22 years of experience. Jagoda said his focus is on the issues with the relationship between students and the police force. He explained that he wants to increase the rate of engagement…
Student Senate focused last week’s meeting on finishing the freshman campus senate elections. After the elections had taken place, freshman representative candidates Will Kramer and Sam Lawrence were disqualified for having campaign materials within 50 feet of the Memorial Union. Kramer received the most votes of the election with 98 votes, while Sam Lawrence…
Student Senate began its meeting Wednesday night by introducing the newly elected senators for the coming term. Before Senate could start cheering over their aversion of the election crisis, they had to discuss the two disqualifications and one tie. The two disqualifications were the result of two individuals running for freshman representative who had campaign…
Student Senate had Mary Jo Gonzales, the University of Rhode Island’s assistant vice president of student affairs, to discuss an upcoming Narragansett town council proposal. The town council of Narragansett is currently discussing a proposal that would prevent students from leasing a house with more than three people living there. “Student representation and student conversation…