The undergraduate Student Association Senate’s stance on the future closure of a queer community space drew tensions between the two candidates for the Senate’s advocacy committee chairperson position during a committee meeting last Wednesday evening.
In a rare year when candidates outnumber the undergraduate Student Association’s (SA) Senate seats, 19 candidates are in the running for 12 seats for this fall’s elections. The Spectrum interviewed 17 out of the 19 candidates on their experiences and goals.
Twenty candidates — six parties and three independent candidates — are competing for 12 seats on the undergraduate Student Association (SA) Senate for the ‘25-26 year: a rare instance when the candidates outnumber the Senate seats.
The Advocacy Committee was meant to “make reports and recommendations” to the Senate about student issues. Almost all of the senators voted to form the committee. SA senators are set to vote on whether or not to extend the committee later today.
SA’s Bullsapalooza — a campus-wide fair — is intended to replace the second Fest in the future.
The REAL party’s Aisha Bechir, and four Stampede party candidates – Mason Bayer, William Dong, Benjamin Lau and Jack Koscinski — secured their seats in a tight race for positions on SA’s e-board for the 2025-26 term.
Approximately 13,755 votes were tallied for this year’s election, roughly 85.3% greater than last year’s election which had 7,423 votes counted.
The Spectrum interviewed 17 candidates competing for SA's e-board for the 2025-26 term about their experiences, platforms and plans for the undergraduate student government's future.
Nineteen candidates are in the race for five positions on the undergraduate Student Association (SA)’s e-board for the 2025-26 academic year. Except for three candidates, all will run under a party banner.
The undergraduate Student Association’s (SA) advocacy committee elected SA Senator Aidan Sumrall as its chair in a landslide election Tuesday afternoon, with five out of eight members voting for Sumrall.
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) Senate split SA’s vice-presidential position into three separate roles – each representing advocacy, events and clubs – in a near unanimous vote of 17 ayes and one abstention Wednesday afternoon. The new roles will be on the ballot in the upcoming SA officer elections for the ’25-26 term.
Following approximately seven months of derecognition, the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams were reestablished by the undergraduate Student Association (SA) on Dec. 6, with access to their funds restored two weeks later. The two teams will now be able to compete, ending two months of inactivity.
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) Senate voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to create a committee focused on issues affecting the student body.
In a tight vote of 11 ayes and 9 nays on Wednesday afternoon, the Student Association (SA) Senate postponed the creation of a Senate advocacy committee to next Wednesday, during the last Senate meeting of the Fall 2024 semester, due to disagreements over who would be the committee’s chairperson.
Four Student Association (SA) senators — Riya Gaikwad, Laibah Ahmed, Dilasha Thapa and Nicholas Bausch — resigned their positions, leaving only 19 filled seats out of 23 total in SA Senate. SA opened applications to fill the vacant seats in an Instagram post Tuesday afternoon.
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