New speaker pro-tempore seeks to increase transparency

by Latoya Burgess

Nickolay Chikishev, a self-proclaimed skeptic, has become the new speaker pro-tempore for Student Government Council.

Chikishev, who was appointed as the new speaker on January 11, replaced former speaker pro-tempore, Lily De La Calle.

The pro-tempore position entails substituting for the Speaker of the Senate, Tanya Williams, when she is not available and speaking on behalf of the members of the senate according to Chikishev.

“I am glad to have this responsibility,” said Chikishev.

According to Chikishev, he joined SGC-BBC because he wanted to see how money was being allocated. He also wanted to get a better sense of what was going on from the inside.

“I didn’t like how [the SGC] wasn’t transparent and right now we are not as transparent as we could be,” said Chikishev.

Chikishev has been apart of SGC-BBC for two years. Last year he served as an intern for the council and said he attended more events last year than this year, but not by choice.

“I would attend more events this year, but my schedule doesn’t permit me to,” said Chikishev.

Chikishev’s main goal this semester is to make sure students are better informed about the consequences of getting parking tickets inside of FIU parking lot.

He says that just getting an email about attaining the proper semester decal is “insufficient”.

“There should be signs posted here at [BBC], [SGC] would pay for it…administrators have a lot of control and they strike us down”.

Chikishev believes administrators don’t want students to know about the decals and it has become an issue that can no longer go unnoticed.

“There should be one person, not three people, giving out citations” said Chikishev.

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