USG • BRIEF
Gillian Seaman
Issue date: 11/21/08 Section: News
President Myles Nickolich opened Tuesday's Undergraduate Student Government General Assembly by thanking the Arts and Sciences Caucus for last Friday's Meet the Faculty mixer. Nickolich also gave thanks to the Finance Committee for successfully completing the mass funding of all recognized student activities organizations in one day.
In addition, Nickolich also proudly announced that for the first time in nearly 25 years, the Student Executive Council had elected to alter the student activity fee allocations. As a consequence, Media Board and University Programming Board will both lose roughly 2 percent of the student activities fee for the upcoming spring semester. However, USG and the Class Officer Collective will now receive an extra 3 percent and 2 percent, respectively. Nickolich stated that the SEC had decided to alter the allotments as "we felt as though some weren't most efficiently using [the student activities fee]." He also mentioned that the extra money USG received was to be used on internal budget and mass funding.
The rest of the meeting primarily centered on CWRU's new sexual harassment policy and the election of the new Sherman Dorm USG representative.
During open forum, members of the Sexual Harassment Policy and Review Task Force discussed some of the changes to CWRU's policy with the goal "to summarize and give the rationale for the proposed changes." Susan Nickel-Schindewolf, associate vice president for Student Affairs and co-chair of the Sexual Assault Policy Review Task Force directed the discussion. Nickel-Schindewolf mentioned the concerns with CWRU's sexual harassment policy, which has been deemed far too lengthy and unclear.
Unfortunately, "there is not a way around [the process] taking some time," Nickel-Schindewolf said. However, they have attempted to make the process much more accessible to students and hope the new policy is "fair to accused and accuser" as to make sure everyone has their rights respected. Nickel-Schindewolf ended the session expressing faith in the new policy that will soon be referred to president Snyder.
In addition, Nickolich also proudly announced that for the first time in nearly 25 years, the Student Executive Council had elected to alter the student activity fee allocations. As a consequence, Media Board and University Programming Board will both lose roughly 2 percent of the student activities fee for the upcoming spring semester. However, USG and the Class Officer Collective will now receive an extra 3 percent and 2 percent, respectively. Nickolich stated that the SEC had decided to alter the allotments as "we felt as though some weren't most efficiently using [the student activities fee]." He also mentioned that the extra money USG received was to be used on internal budget and mass funding.
The rest of the meeting primarily centered on CWRU's new sexual harassment policy and the election of the new Sherman Dorm USG representative.
During open forum, members of the Sexual Harassment Policy and Review Task Force discussed some of the changes to CWRU's policy with the goal "to summarize and give the rationale for the proposed changes." Susan Nickel-Schindewolf, associate vice president for Student Affairs and co-chair of the Sexual Assault Policy Review Task Force directed the discussion. Nickel-Schindewolf mentioned the concerns with CWRU's sexual harassment policy, which has been deemed far too lengthy and unclear.
Unfortunately, "there is not a way around [the process] taking some time," Nickel-Schindewolf said. However, they have attempted to make the process much more accessible to students and hope the new policy is "fair to accused and accuser" as to make sure everyone has their rights respected. Nickel-Schindewolf ended the session expressing faith in the new policy that will soon be referred to president Snyder.
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