ASUSU proposes constitution
The Associated Students of Utah State University updated the USU Executive Committee about this year’s issues Thursday.
Issues discussed include the revised ASUSU constitution, the A-frame policy, the new Fitness Center and graduation changes.
Celestial Bybee, ASUSU president, said, “This meeting is for [ASUSU] Executive Council and the [USU] Executive Committee to meet minds and get on the same page. For that reason, I think this meeting is very important.”
Ericka Ensign, Academics vice president, presented revisions concerning the ASUSU constitution. Students were given the opportunity to vote on the revisions online. President Kermit L. Hall will review the constitution for approval.
Allowing the council members to change their charters and adding a mission statement to the Executive Council are just a few revisions made on the constititution.
“We formed an ad hoc committee to make the changes more streamlined,” Ensign said.
Camey Hatch, ASUSU Public Relations vice president, informed the committee of the new A-frame policy. It establishes several guidelines to keep the A-frames up to date and the campus clutter-free. Clubs and organizations are only allowed to keep the A-frames up for two weeks. The A-frames are divided among ASUSU, colleges, Student Activity Board, Greek clubs and others.
“We were concerned with the A-frames on campus – the image they gave and the purpose for them,” Hatch said.
Shelly Swasey, Athletics vice president, reviewed the work completed on the new Fitness Center.
Swasey said the Fitness Center is now open. For four months, construction workers knocked down the racquetball courts and reconstructed the entire second level. More than $200,000 in new workout equipment was added.
Faculty and staff can now obtain memberships to use the facilities. Students can use them for free. Starting January, the hours for the center will be Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to midnight, and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Bybee thanked the committee and the council for the work done to help change graduation to a more university-wide ceremony. Several members of the council also worked on a resolution that required each college to hold individual ceremonies, where students’ names would be read aloud.
“President Hall took the resolution [ASUSU] made and adapted it to his proposal,” she said.
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