Student Congress kicks off year with committee meetings
By Cain Twyman | Aug. 26, 2015Student Congress’s first legislative cycle began with back-to-back committee meetings on Tuesday.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Attendance has declined sharply at the Carolina Conversations events since their creation in March.
Read More »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.
Read More »Student Body President Andrew Powell will step down today to be replaced by Houston Summers after an eventful year.
Read More »With the threat of a lawsuit looming, Student Congress amended the Instrument of Student Judicial Governance to remove unconstitutional sections in its last meeting.
Read More »Five months after its release, the CarolinaGO mobile application will soon introduce its first update.
Read More »The UNControllables and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Peer Mentoring Program voiced their funding complaints at the Student Congress finance committee meeting Tuesday night.
Read More »The Student Congress Rules and Judiciary Committee confirmed the director of state and external affairs position Tuesday night, helping to fill the cabinet of Student Body President-elect Houston Summers.
Read More »The Student Congress Finance Committee passed a bill Tuesday night to revise the process of oversight for student government stipends.
Read More »After a 22-hour extension in the voting period due to Tuesday’s winter weather, Houston Summers emerged victorious in the election for the 2015-16 student body president race.
Read More »After weeks of campaigning, the work is just beginning for newly elected senior class officers Brent McKnight and Ying Lin and re-elected Residence Hall Association president Taylor Bates
Read More »Student Congress will hold an emergency meeting Friday to call for more answers from police about Tuesday’s triple homicide at an off-campus condominium complex.
Read More »Juniors Houston Summers and Kathryn Walker will compete in a runoff election next week, following an election with the lowest turnout in at least the past ten years.
Read More »The Student Congress Finance Committee decided on Tuesday to draft a bill to cut Student Body Vice President Kyle Villemain’s stipend for one month.
Read More »All three student body president candidates this year — Houston Summers, Kathryn Walker and David Marsh — said they want to see more connection between different sectors of UNC’s community, but they have different strategies for obtaining that goal.
Read More »Student body president candidates aim to bring student wellness to the campus conversation, including ideas about sexual assault prevention and mental health.
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