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Graduate Student Senate discuss nominations for vacant officer positions in first meeting

Written by Johnathan Silver, The Shorthorn senior staff

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 08:49 PM

Criminal justice graduate Alex Dobrov addresses the committee of the graduate student senate. Nominations were taken for the Vice President and Public Relations positions. (The Shorthorn: Aisha Butt)

The Graduate Student Senate convened Wednesday night for its first meeting of the spring semester. The GSS is a body of members that focuses on graduate student issues.

Members in attendance nominated five members to two vacant executive positions and senate president Tim Caldwell delivered his report. The vacated positions were vice president and public relations officer.

Caldwell nominated member Alex Dobrov for vice president, and Jonathan Rose and Ashley Spivey for PRO.

Crystal Cortes and Becky Robinson nominated each other for the vice president and PRO positions, respectively. They will vote on the nominations in a future meeting.

Caldwell also reviewed key points that were discussed among university officials and student leaders during the President’s Roundtable meeting Monday. He said that some officials want to increase graduate students’ tuition by around 6 or 7 percent. He said he did not relay senate members’ questions and concerns because the increase seemed sensible.

Next Graduate Student Senate meeting

When: Wednesday, Feb. 3
Where: Lower Level UC, Student Congress Chambers

“It was kind of hard to justify making a request when all they did was increase graduate tuition so that it covers all of its own costs,” he said.

Another item Caldwell addressed was future changes that would be applied to the senate Web site. He said the next meeting would involve further details on what features should go online.

The next meeting will be Wednesday, Feb. 3, in the Student Congress chambers in the University Center basement.

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