Senate Begins Spring Semester with Less than a Quarter of its Year-Long Budget Remaining
By Katie Oglesby, Editor-in-Chief For the 2022-2023 academic year, Student Senate was allocated $92,116. By the second Senate meeting (Jan. 30) of the spring semester, Senate had $18,576.11 left. By the third Senate meeting (Feb. 6), they had $12,644.31 remaining. As Senate treasurer Hannah Repole ’25 explained, part of the $74,192.89 allocated already by Feb. 6 has not been spent. This includes money allocated for club events that...
Faculty Meeting News and Notes: Feb. 2, 2023
By Katie Oglesby, Editor-in-Chief President Bob Iuliano began the faculty meeting Thursday with a reminder of the Ken Burns film festival happening this upcoming week. He also noted that the College received a record number of applications during this year’s admissions process. Student Experience Survey Discussion turned over to the motion put forth for the Student Experience Survey (SES) to replace the Common Course Evaluation...
Student Senate Discusses Remaining Budget and How to Better Prepare for Years Ahead
By Katie Oglesby, Editor-in-Chief Officer Reports Monday’s Senate meeting began with the welcoming and induction of new members. Treasurer Hannah Repole ’25 gave an update of the budget. She explained that Senate was allotted $92,116 for the entire academic year, and that $72,299.89 has been allocated already. Repole noted that not all of this has been spent; some of this has been allocated for events in the spring that have not...
Campus Safety Alerts Student Body to Sunday Morning Aggravated Assault
By Katie Oglesby, Editor-in-Chief On Sunday morning, Executive Director of Campus Safety Alex Wiltz sent out a campus-wide email alerting the community to an aggravated assault that occurred early that morning. Wiltz said a member of the campus community experienced “severe injury” after being pushed off the porch of a College residence by another campus community member. The incident occurred in the 100 block of West...
College Community Reflects on Safety in Light of Incidents this Semester
By Katie Oglesby, Editor-in-Chief and Alli Dayton, Managing/News Editor When asked about safety on campus, co-chair of the Senate Safety Committee Vivek Rallabandi ’25 said, “There is no question that this semester has been particularly eventful in terms of the safety concerns our campus has dealt with.” The events Rallabandi referred to include the aggravated assault near Diaspora House in September, a report of a student being...
