The Student Government Association was addressed by Dining Services Thursday, April 16.
Vice Chancellor of Administrative Affairs Dana Wavle and Director of Dining Services Ernie Gionis presented SGA with some of the findings from the recent Food Services Survey.
Wavle said they will be changing the hours for The IUS Food Court, University Grounds and The Library Bistro. Gionis and Wavle both said they agreed the new hours were to help make food cost more affordable to the students.
“It’s just not profitable to have [Dining Services] open on Sundays,” Gionis said. “It takes $190 to open up for the day, and when we only make $38 for the day we can’t be more affordable.”
Wavle explained they are working on making food provided for student organizations more reasonably priced. Wavle said it has been hard because they had to work with an area that was already established and not designed for them. However, they are looking to the future and it is taking time to transform to a commuter campus.
In the meeting’s unfinished business, the T-shirt Bill was passed after going into emergency status. The bill allots $248 for T-shirts for the SGA senators and was passed into emergency status so the shirts would arrive before the end of the semester.
Melissa Lamanna, SGA press secretary, authored the bill and said each T-shirt would cost approximately $7.50.
Greg Roberts, Arts and Letters academic adviser, said volunteering at graduation to hand out bottled water to the graduates would be a good time to wear the T-shirts.
In other business, Candice Boudreaux became SGA technology officer by acclamation. The tech officer is responsible for the Web site, running the projector during meetings and other technical issues.
Probationary Senator Leslie Drury proposed the duties of each committee be posted for the benefit of the Student Body. She also offered her services to the new tech officer. Drury said she would like to be the tech officer if she weren’t probationary.
James Bonsall, SGA president, suggested the creation of a new position, Director of Sustainability, to be filled by Lee Allen. Allen would be responsible for coming up with ways for SGA to help the IUS campus decrease energy use, fundraise for the greening effort, environment issues and would also work with the SGA President when talking to the administration. Bonsall said it wouldn’t be a paid position.
“I would refuse any kind of payment for doing something like this,” Allen said.
The creation of the position was voted down.
The vote on the Election Contestation Modification Bill was postponed.
Currently, elections are contested by obtaining the signatures of five students, — even if they are SGA members — who voted in the election who agree to contest the election and presenting those signatures to the chief justice within five days of the election.
However, the election is held the week before spring break, which means the time period to contest the election falls during spring break.
The bill would modify the five day period in the bylaw to five academic days.
The postponement will allow for a rewrite to clarify which election and how to handle getting the information to the chief justice.
By LORI RICHIE
Staff Writer
larichie@ius.edu
