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.
Von Hedemann, who became head coach in 2021, said the undergraduate Student Association (SA) requested that he resign as a condition to allow the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams to be reinstated.
Due to the club’s current derecognition status under UB’s Student Association (SA), the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams announced that they are unable to compete for this fall semester. The possibility of the two teams competing in the spring remains uncertain.
Over the past week, voters elected seven senators to fill 12 open seats. The Spectrum reached out to all seven elected senators to ask about their previous experiences, policy platforms and goals. Six out of those seven senators agreed to an interview.
With a unanimous vote of 3-0, the UB Student Association Executive Committee called upon the private UB Foundation to “not invest in entities, companies or organizations that engage in human rights abuses” in a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-backed resolution that passed on Aug. 16.
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students clashed with each other and with Student Association (SA) President Becky Paul-Odionhin for more than an hour at a tense and sometimes fiery SA Senate meeting Wednesday evening. Attendees argued over experiences of hate and discrimination at UB, and over Paul-Odionhin’s continued blockage of a vote on a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-backed resolution.
The resolution follows the use of a Stampede bus to transport arrested protesters from the scene of a pro-Palestine demonstration last week.
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) has allocated $314,405 — aside from artist fees, which the SA has not made public — for expenses for this year’s Spring Fest concert.
The call for Schulze’s resignation follows more than a month of protests against hiring cutbacks led by graduate students in the Classics Department.
The resolution was proposed by UB’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, and was backed by several senators. Paul-Odionhin said the resolution could endanger SA if passed.
A policy that would introduce a formula for awarding undergraduate clubs supplemental funding failed to pass at the SA Senate Wednesday night, but is likely to emerge in an updated form at the body’s next meeting.
SA President Becky Paul-Odionhin told organizers she would need more specific information before backing a resolution.
The advocacy push, focused on the five-year broad-based fee increase plan and the end of the student health insurance plan. Both decisions were finalized this February and last November, respectively.
Beginning in the fall semester, Samin Bhuya will be SA’s president, Killian Hannigan its vice president, and Louis Poon its treasurer.
The SA has booked two artists and is seeking a third to perform at this year’s Spring Fest, which will be held on May 4.
The Spectrum spoke with representatives of all parties about their prior experience, their platforms and the future of UB’s undergraduate student government — and the clubs that depend on it.
The Student Association (SA) Senate joined other student governments across New York State to endorse amendments to a statewide bill that would require schools, colleges and universities to train staff for suicide prevention and adopt reporting policies.
The bevy of new policies aim to improve club funding allocation, ensure club participation and maintain Senate attendance, while eliminating a budget review process.
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