Despite strong support from senators, Student Government Association tabled a bill to create the Policy Review Committee for one week.
“[To add the committee] would be a constitutional amendment,” said Samantha Morr, John Cook School of Business senator. “We don’t want to be amending our constitution too much, so this gives people time to think.”
The committee would consist of 10 members: six senators, three members from the Student Conduct Board and one non-voting chairperson. The committee would review policies such as the university speaker policy and the policy on alcohol in First Year Experience buildings.
“There [are] lots of good reasons for it to exist,” said Andrew Miller, vice president of Internal Affairs and author of the bill. “It would be nice to have an official place to have student recommendations on university policies.”
Miller said that a similar non-standing committee used to exist a few years ago, but plans to formalize the committee got lost during the Howard administration.
Grand Forest Senator, Megan Lovato, said that this committee would be a “really good collaboration effort with [the Student Conduct Board].”
SGA also chartered Women’s Club Basketball as an official chartered student organization. The club, however, is not eligible for new charter funding, as they were already allocated a budget at the end of last semester.
Vice President of Student Organizations, Amanda Mason, said that the group finished its probation period last semester but never went up for chartering. The club played a few games last season and has even more planned for this season, playing against schools such as Washington University in St. Louis and University of Missouri-Columbia.
“We gotta beat Mizzou,” said club president, Danielle Collins. “Wash. U was a piece of cake.”
SGA also voted to amend the annual funding allocations for SLU Rugby and Alpha Kappa Psi. The groups were allocated $7,610, and $6,583.40, respectively. Through no fault of their own, their budgets for this year were inaccurate. The representatives on the Upper-Class Scholarship Selection Committee were also seated and confirmed at the meeting.
The Upper-Class Scholarship is a scholarship of $1,000, awarded to campus leaders of upper-class standing. Though five students received the scholarship last year, only three students will receive it this year. Applications for the scholarship are expected to be available Oct. 16.
