Mississippi State University’s Psychology Graduate Student Association will host the suicide prevention walk called Out of the Darkness at 10 a.m. on April 1 in the Junction.
The OU Undergraduate Student Congress passed bills encouraging awareness against the dangers of vaping and advocated for increased funds for higher education during its meeting Tuesday evening.
Letter to the Editor: Privatizing the bookstore would be disastrous
The university is looking to sell the University of Calgary bookstore to Follett, an American corporation worth $2.7 billion. Bringing in a private corporation to sell textbooks to students would be kneecapping the student body at its most vulnerable during a pandemic, a recession and yearly tuition hikes.
Currently, textbooks are sold to students as close to at-cost as possible, keeping prices affordable. However, we all know that textbooks are still unaffordable, which is why the bookstore has three cost-saving programs the Book Loan program, the Sponsored Students program and the Textbook Rental program.
The Student Government Association Undergraduate Student Congress passed two bills relating to student organizationsâ funding that generated debate on the amount of funding multicultural organizations received, and they nominated members for numerous administrative positions Tuesday.
Budget Committee Chair Lauren Patton presented a bill appropriating SGA funds to governmental student organizations at OU, including Campus Activities Council, SGA Undergraduate Student Congress, SGA Graduate Student Senate, the SGA Executive Branch and Student Bar Association.
Some congress members questioned why CAC received an increase in funding this year. Patton explained CAC had âunfairlyâ received a cut last year due to budget restrictions.
âWe were able to work with them â they knew (they would be) going into primary (funding)Â last year and supplemented during auxiliary (funding) at the beginning of this year, but we wanted to return them more to what they were supp
The Student Government Association Undergraduate Student Congress passed two bills relating to student organizationsâ funding that generated debate on the amount of funding multicultural organizations received, and they nominated members for numerous administrative positions Tuesday.
Budget Committee Chair Lauren Patton presented a bill appropriating SGA funds to governmental student organizations at OU, including Campus Activities Council, SGA Undergraduate Student Congress, SGA Graduate Student Senate, the SGA Executive Branch and Student Bar Association.
Some congress members questioned why CAC received an increase in funding this year. Patton explained CAC had âunfairlyâ received a cut last year due to budget restrictions.
âWe were able to work with them â they knew (they would be) going into primary (funding)Â last year and supplemented during auxiliary (funding) at the beginning of this year, but we wanted to return them more to what they were supp