Joshua Ceballos & Teresa Schuster/PantherNOW Staff Tensions flared as the two student government councils met for University-Wide Congress last week. While there were moments of unity, old issues of funding and partisanship bubbled up to the surface, bringing up the question of an SGA merger once again. After an hour-long senate meeting by the Student […]
By: Gerard Albert & Valentina Palm/PantherNOW Staff The Student Government Association held Week of Welcome events to engage students during the first week of Spring semester but it also served as a way for SGA to move forward from a Fall semester spent mostly putting out fires and recovering from scandals. Last semester saw […]
By: Gerard Albert III/Assistant News Director It’s over. After six months of constitutional review meetings, a previous failed attempt and a university wide congress meeting turned hostile, the merging of the two Student Government Councils is dead, according to an email sent to SGA officials from Elizabeth Bejar Vice President for Academic and Student […]
By: Gerard Albert III/Assistant News Director Daniel Velasquez, chief justice of the Student Government Council at the Biscayne Bay campus is out. SGC-BBC President Jefferson Noel asked Velasquez to resign after he verbally attacked senators and members of the Modesto Maidique Campus cabinet, most notably President Sabrina Rosell, during a congress meeting. The university-wide […]
By: Gerard Albert III/Assistant News Director Students at the Biscayne Bay campus doubt the effectiveness and level of representation the merging of the Student Government councils will bring. The merger was mandated by former vice president for Student Affairs Larry Lunsford last year, bringing the Student Government Councils at the Modesto Maidique and Biscayne […]
By: Nicole Stone/Assistant News Director
Gerard Albert III/Assistant News Director The Student Government is putting proposed constitutional changes to a vote on Tuesday, Sept. 25 and Wednesday Sept. 26. Students from all campuses will be able to vote on the changes; most notably a new executive branch structure. The proposal includes one president and one executive vice president that will preside […]
By: Joshua Ceballos/News Director The president of MMC’s student government council said to the SGC-MMC senate that the student government is not doing a good enough job of representing its students. On Monday, Aug. 20, SGC-MMC president Jose Sirven gave a “State of the Student Body” address during the senate general meeting, in which […]
By: Gerard Albert/Staff Writer After announcing the merger between the two Student Government Councils, the Student Government Association has been holding committee meetings to edit the constitution. The meetings, which plan to continue through September, are aimed at revising the current FIU Constitution. The committee’s aim is twofold, they are trying to make the document […]
