The Student Government Association concluded the year with their final meeting of the 2010-2011 academic year on Wednesday, May 4.
During the meeting, they began with business as usual with an old bill from last week, moved on to charter new student organizations and then presented end-of-the-year awards, both externally and internally.
The bill to amend the association’s bylaws regarding the Vice President of Diversity and Social Justice position finally came to a vote. Last week, the bill was amended so that the position’s name would stay the same. With this change, the bill passed in senate.
The next three bills were to give awards to various individuals. Only two of the recipients were present to receive the awards, but the senate voted to give awards to Mark J. Zinn, the president of the Community Emergency Response Team, and Ted Kremer, the president of Alpha Phi Omega. The awards bills wrapped up with the awarding of the President’s Award to Vice President of Diversity and Social Justice, Oscar Vazquez.
“Oscar brings to SGA a little bit of knowledge on everything on campus, and that’s probably what makes him good at his job,” SGA President Courtney Anvender said. “He won’t be the loudest advocate, but he will always be the advocate for you in the room.”
Normal senate activities concluded with the allocation of $3,358 in spot funding to the men’s and women’s Ultimate Frisbee teams, who qualified for their regional tournament, and the chartering of two new student organizations, the Civil Engineers Club and the Public Health Undergraduate Association, both of which recieved full support for chartering.
Once the last bill passed, SGA wrapped up the year by announcing the superlatives they had given members of their organization and the “Best of” awards. Best Freshman Senator went to First Year Senator Parry Draper; Best Sophomore Senator was Doisy College senator Kripa Sreepada; Best Junior Senator was Krishi Peddada; Best Senior Senator was Black Student Alliance senator David Rollins; Best Graduate Senator went to Antonio Garcia; and Best Committee Head was Piera Blandon.
Best Overall Senator was given to First Year Senator Joe Woster.
The meeting ended with personal comments from Anvender to each member of the association and the final session of Pass the Gavel of the year.
