Meet your 2019 student body president candidates
By Casey Quam | Feb. 11, 2019Before you vote for UNC student body president, get to know your candidates and their platforms.
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Before you vote for UNC student body president, get to know your candidates and their platforms.
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The full Undergraduate Senate met Tuesday to discuss new appointments to various positions in the UNC Supreme Court, Board of Elections and full Senate. Here’s what you need to know:
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After eight months in office, UNC Student Body President Savannah Putnam reflects on the work that her administration has completed — specifically emphasizing their effect on mental health.
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Arguments broke out in the Undergraduate Senate’s full meeting Tuesday as senators criticized each other and the nomination process that led to the failed bid of a nominee to the prestigious Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor.
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When the Board of Trustees huddled in closed session earlier this month, awaiting instruction on how to proceed on the delicate Confederate monument issue, Savannah Putnam met with them. As the SBP, her job is to act as a liaison between the students and administration. Yet despite her status as a voting ex-officio member of the BOT, she was asked to leave a conversation which took place before the official special meeting dates of both the BOT and BOG.
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All our student leaders have a responsibility to do what is right, regardless of how “contentious” it may seem. Students have been subject to this type of complacency for long enough with our University administration and should not undergo it with their student leadership as well. I hope that the trend of vetoing progress for the sake of pleasantness does not continue.
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On Sept. 4, the Undergraduate Senate met and discussed three top priorities for the upcoming year, including a mental health awareness week, amending the mission statement and creating a new position of a diversity and inclusion coordinator.
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The Undergraduate Senate’s select committee on Silent Sam held a hearing on Monday to discuss how to begin resolving the removal of the statue. Like the students, the Senate was divided.
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The undergraduate senate unanimously passed a resolution stating their support for a new Latinx center on campus during their session on Jan. 16. The resolution will now be sent to Chancellor Carol Folt, the university’s chief diversity officer and the chair of the board of trustees among others.
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On Oct. 9, Kennith Echeverria, the speaker pro tempore in the Undergraduate Senate, filed a complaint against Student Body President Elizabeth Adkins and the Undergraduate Executive Branch saying he was discriminated against when his acceptance to the Academic Affairs Committee was rescinded.
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Student organizations — the University’s clubs, fraternities and other groups whose operation depends on funds allocated by Student Government — will see their money change hands at the end of the 2017-18 year.
Read More »On Thursday, the Undergraduate Student Senate passed a bill that would redraw senate districting lines and discussed their plans for various initiatives they want to implement in the upcoming school year.
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Between communication streamlining, congressional restructuring and campus issues, Student Government should have a busy first semester.
Read More »Undergraduate Student Senate met Thursday to discuss a bill that would redraw Senate district lines, and to discuss goals for the upcoming school year for their first summer session meeting.
Read More »At Wednesday’s Undergraduate Student Senate meeting, members discussed several proposed committees and how each member would fit into these committees.
Read More »Undergraduate Student Senate discussed incoming government positions and the student body presidential campaigning process at its last committee member meetings of the year.
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The 99th Undergraduate Student Senate met on Tuesday to discuss unfinished business of the preceding meeting, including amendments to three parts in the Student Code.
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Student government isn’t exactly starting from scratch — but the books are being rewritten. Along with the new constitution that accompanied the arrival of the Elizabeth Adkins administration, a revised Student Code is about to take hold as well.
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With a new student government administration comes a new constitution and a new set of rules.
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Contentiousness and controversy in the student body election this spring delayed the vote for weeks — from the original date of Feb. 14 to the first vote on March 10, which was followed by a runoff election two weeks later.
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