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`The Student Senate meeting ran the gamut this week with the amount of topics and issues that were discussed in this week’s meeting, everything from emergency allocations, to the appointment of a new corresponding secretary.
This week there were two campus organizations looking for emergency allocation from the Student Senate: Citamard Players, which is dramatic spelled backwards, and the Best Buddies Program.
First up was the Citamard Players, representatives, Justin Gilmore and Nikki Evans were present at the meeting to explain what the group does. “We’re trying to bring in a new type of theater, the theater of the oppressed.
We want to explore such topics like racism and sexual orientation in our plays and monologues. We base it off of improvisation and we look at new perspectives and viewpoints from the different things that we do,” said Evans about the program.
She also went on to say that the group has already stricken a deal with Fall Orientation of 2010, to perform it for the freshman, because they want students to try it out and also learn from the upper classmen.
The group has been trying to raise money to send some of their representatives to a conference in Minneapolis, to learn how this type of theater works.
Gilmore explained that, “they will be learning and teaching the students. We want to train the Citamard core, and then branch is off to other people in different organizations.”
The group was looking to raise $825 dollars from Student Senate, after going around to other different organization and picking up such supporters as the Gay/ Straight Alliance and, most importantly, the Student Programs office.
The questions arose about where the money was really going; some of the Senators were not sure about this program because they didn’t know if Citamard would be bringing what they had learned back to campus; or whether it was for they own benefits. Either way, Citamard was granted emergency allocation to bring back what seems like an interesting program back to Millersville.
Another topic of interests at the meeting this week was the resignation of corresponding secretary, Kristin Hartley.
She stepped down from her position, just as the semester was coming to an end. Nevertheless, the position had to be filled.
Two candidates were nominated for the rest of the semester, Jerry Broniec and Sarah Darling.
Darling was elected to the corresponding secretary seats for the year 2009-2010, and with her nomination, some of the senators believed that it would be good for her to get into the position early.
That was exactly how a majority of the senators thought as well, Darling was elected into the corresponding secretary’s seat on Thursday during the meeting.