Student Congress held the first student body presidential debate Tuesday night between candidates Wilson Sink and John Taylor. It was moderated by Student Congress Speaker David Joyner.
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The Graduate and Professional Student Federation is campaigning to separate from Student Congress, but not all graduate students agree with the plan — especially those involved in leadership roles in Student Congress.
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The Graduate and Professional Student Federation must raise signatures from 10 percent of the student body to get its proposed split from undergraduate student government on the ballot for spring student elections.
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The Graduate and Professional Student Federation, Student Congress and Student Government’s executive branch hosted a town hall meeting Monday night to receive student input on GPSF’s possible split from Student Congress.
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For the fiscal year 2015, student government has a net deficit of $209,498.01 — and while Congress usually has a net deficit, this is the first year student government has been in debt.
Read More »The Graduate and Professional Student Federation presented two plans for co-optation or separation from student government at its Tuesday meeting.
Read More »In its first meeting of the semester on Tuesday, the finance committee for Student Congress heard from a representative from the Board of Elections, a representative from Student Congress and the International Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences, commonly known by the French acronym AIESEC.
Read More »The Graduate and Professional Student Federation has elected a new president, Dylan Russell, to fill the position left by Brandon Linz in November.
Read More »Today, the Graduate and Professional Student Federation will take a step forward with their plan to separate from student government by sending a letter to administrators asking to establish an autonomous body of government for graduate students.
Read More »In its last meeting of the semester Tuesday, Student Congress's Finance Committee looked back on its fall legislative cycle.
Read More »Full Student Congress dissolved into a committee for approximately 10 minutes in the middle of its meeting Tuesday evening.
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Read More »Despite the daunting list of bills presented at Tuesday’s Student Congress meeting, there was very little debate among representatives.
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Student Congress’s first legislative cycle began with back-to-back committee meetings on Tuesday.
Read More »Student Government is back for round two. Though a referendum failed to pass amendments to the Student Constitution in March, these amendments were once again put up to vote in a referendum on Wednesday. These amendments, among other things, would merge the Student Supreme Court and Board of Elections in to district courts, make the Graduate and Professional Student Federation (GPSF) an official governing body, acknowledged in the Student Constitution; make the speaker of Student Congress and the finance committee chair eligible for a stipend and redistrict Student Congress representatives by academic year, according to Student Body President Houston Summers. “I think that for me, one of the most important aspects of this is kind of elevating GPSF to a governing body within Student Government,” Summers said.
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The loser of the Student Bar Association presidential election is challenging the results in the Student Supreme Court.
Read More »Student Congress is the latest group that will try to tackle the Saunders Hall issue next school year.
Read More »The issue of low-wage work often seems distant to UNC students, but health care worker Shannon Milton said her job and others like it don’t pay people enough to make a living.
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Attendance has declined sharply at the Carolina Conversations events since their creation in March.
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Houston Summers was sworn in as student body president in a Tuesday ceremony culminating in a rendition of the alma mater and a reception featuring meatballs and fruit salad.
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