Student senate meeting address plethora of issues

At this week’s Student Senate meeting, the senators and the board addressed main issues that will affect the campus and the student body, alike.

One such issues that was addressed this week was an upcoming financial meeting that will be held on Feb. 12 that will address the possible increases in student funds.

At this meeting on Thursday, the Provost will be there to talk about the budget for the school and the economic issues that are being addressed in this tough, financial time.

President of Student Senate, Shannon Farrelly, expressed her concern for the students to attend this meeting, “We need to get more students in here to they know what’s going on around campus,” said Farrelly. “They should know about the possible increases that might happen around campus.”

The financial meeting will be taking place, Thursday, Feb. 12 in SMC 161 at 7:15 p.m. All students are encouraged to attend; there will also be refreshments provided.
Another topic at this weeks meeting was the motion to grant permanent status to a new fraternity on campus.

The brothers of Lambda Sigma Upsilon, Inc. attended this weeks meeting to see if their request for permanent statue in the University would be granted.

The fraternity was represented by their president and vice president where they talked about their fraternity’s mission at Millersville. President Rivera stated that, “Our organization is about bringing diversity to the students.”

This Latino fraternity has been around campus since last spring and has been working tirelessly to promote their message.

“We’re also about academic excellence and community service. We’re working, our philanthropy is HIV/AIDS awareness, because one of our founding brothers died from the illness.”

This national fraternity requires that its perspectives have 12 credits, the same for all of Greek life, and that their GPA is a 2.5 or higher.

The last important issue that was addressed at the Student Senate meeting was the changes in health services that went into affect on Monday. During the semester, Health Services had an Interim Medical Director, or a part-time doctor, Dr. Riggiliano.
During his time, Dr. Riggiliano wanted to go back to his position at Health Services, before he was the Medical Director.

This change will affect the office hours that were already changed at the beginning of this semester.

The hours will now be Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and there will be no hours on Saturday, until they find a replacement.

Vice President of Student Affairs, Dr. Aminta Hawkins-Breaux stated, “The union representative have been made aware, now we just want to make sure that we dot all of our Is and cross all of our Ts before anything it made official.”

There was email sent out to campus to make student aware of the changes, but if there is any further questions, just notify Health Services.