The Student Government Association announced at its March 22 meeting that the Faculty Senate has approved its Mandatory Syllabus Policy. The approval of this bill represents a significant increase in the influence of the SGA in determining IUS policies. “I believe this is the first piece of legislation the Faculty Senate has approved that has been put forward by the SGA,” Kevin Evans, secondary education junior, SGA vice president and the bill’s sponsor, said.

At the Oct. 16 Faculty Senate meeting, representatives from Barnes & Noble bookstores, who has a contract to sell textbooks for all IU campuses, gave a presentation that addressed faculty and student concerns of ISBN availability, ordering and returning books and reasons why a bookstore committee has not been staffed months after its announcement.