By: Melissa Caceres/Asst. News Director
For their first meeting of Fall 2010, the Student Government Council senators at Modesto Maidique Campus laid out their current projects for the semester while discussing nominations and vacancies within the organization.
Jose Toscano, assistant director of campus life and SGC-MMC adviser, emphasized on the administration’s need to work in conjunction with the University’s Worlds Ahead Strategic Plan.
He also pushed the senate to produce new ideas and concepts for their respective constituencies to bring to the table for the new academic year.
“Sometimes we forget where the University is going. We need to ask ‘what is the University doing and how can we align ourselves to some of those projects,’” said Toscano.
“Sometimes our goals are left or go to the right. There is never a straight and narrow in which both SGA goals, department goals and University goals are all one. So our strategy, as SGA advisors, is to bring everything together.”
Projects included improving the University’s online rating system for professors, the development of this year’s homecoming events and the successful implementation of the coffee shop at the Engineering Center.
“We’re going to try to get it so the rate my professor system that FIU uses is a lot more student friendly and has more usable data for students,” said SGC-MMC President Patrick O’Keefe who also mentioned in his report a program is being developed for students to obtain internships in Washington, D.C.
Senate Speaker Donovan Dawson announced six senate vacancies: two for the College of Nursing, two for the College of Education, one for the College of Business and one for Housing.
The vacancy in the business seat comes from the resignation of senator Cesar Chuquizuta, who, according to Dawson, sent a letter explaining that he accepted a marketing position at Volkswagen.
Chuquizuta was elected during the 2011 SGA elections and received the most votes out of all of the business candidates.
“I was offered an opportunity for professional development,” Chuquizuta said in his letter.
The senate approved the proposal of the University’s solar decathlon project which requested $1,940 from SGC-MMC to cover the flight cost of sending 10 students to Washington DC, where the competition will take place from Sept. 18 to 25.
Nominations made during the meeting included Alexandra Almanzar, for elections commission; Sasha “Bleu” Waters, as sustainability coordinator; and Sergio Pantoja, as technology coordinator.
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