The Student Government Association passed a proposal that would change how syllabuses are viewed at their meeting on Oct. 27.

According to the proposal, instead of the course syllabus going onto OnCourse when classes start, they will be available before the start of the respective semester.

Kevin Evans, secondary education junior and SGA vice president, said he has been working on getting the proposal into effect since the start of the school year.

“The policy still has to go through some committees and the Faculty Senate before it can be approved,” Evans said. “The chancellor will also have to look over it.”

Evans also said the utility was developed and piloted at the Bloomington campus last December.

“It went live on Oct. 17,” Evans said. “It is only live at Bloomington right now; however, IUS could be the first regional campus to use it.”

Ryan Miller, secondary education junior and SGA technology officer, made a motion to open discussion about the topic during the meeting.

“This is something that has to be done very soon,” Miller said.

Jennifer Broadus, general studies junior and SGA treasurer, said she thinks this is important.

“I feel this is something that affects the students directly,” Broadus said. “I would like to make this a resolution and assign it a number.”

The senators all agreed and made it a resolution to be voted on next week.

Matt Owen, political science junior and SGA senate chair, said this was supposed to be a discussion.

“I just wanted to state that before we move too drastically,” Owen said.

The resolution was put into emergency status so the SGA could override their by-laws, allowing it to be presented to the retention committee on Oct. 28.

Owen said he was troubled about the way they did it.

“We have a policy,” Owen said. “[Evans] should know this, being a former senator. I know you have been working hard on [the proposal], but, next time, let’s do this the right way.”

If it the policy is approved, it would not take effect until the summer semester.

Josh Kornberg, communications senior and SGA president, said he thought his State of the Student Body Address went well.

“I covered a lot of topics,” Kornberg said. “I talked about textbook prices and what administration is doing to try and lower them, a new parking lot being planned for construction and summer tuition decrease.”

Kornberg also thanked everyone who was there.

Stephon Moore, journalism freshman and SGA press secretary, said the SGA was able to give out the rest of their water bottles.

“The State of the Student Body Address went well,” Moore said. “I gave out a lot of surveys and got most of them back. I apologize for the lack of advertising. I didn’t really get the word out about it.”

Josh Sesar, math and physics junior and SGA senator, announced he was resigning after the meeting on Oct. 27.

“I am sad to say that I have too much going on in my life right now to continue my time on the SGA,” Sesar said. “I have had a lot of fun in my years here.”

Owen said he is going to miss having Sesar as a member.

“Josh has been a senator for five years,” Owen said. “I’m sad to see [Sesar] go.”

Evans said the SGA is going to have some hard times coming up.

“With [Broadus] announcing her resignation last week and, now, [Sesar] leaving as well, this doesn’t make things any easier for us,” Evans said.

Miller said he is working on changing the URL of the SGA’s website.

“Where the site is now is where IU faculty have their webpages,” Miller said.

Miller also said he is working on getting familiar with HTML — the web programming language — and Cascading Style Sheets.

“[HTML and CSS] are the basic languages of the Internet,” Miller said. “I’m not too familiar with them, so I am reading up on them.”

Owen said he wanted to make the residents of Grove and Orchard Lodges know about the road closure that was scheduled to happen on Oct. 28.

“I know everyone got an e-mail about the road closure,” Owen said. “However, I want to let the residents know because some of them may not check their IUS e-mail account.”

Jen Crompton, assistant director for Residence Life and Housing and adviser for the SGA, said they had already put fliers up on both lodges.

“We also told the community advisers about the closure so they could let the residents in their lodges know,” Crompton said. “The road is closed because [Physical Plant] is putting in conduits by the tennis court.”

By BRYAN JONES

Staff

jonesbry@umail.iu.edu