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SBA President-elect Jordan Michel, a second-year law student, said he hopes to lead the SBA with the same “transparency and accountability” he expects from administrators.
The Student Bar Association Senate swore in the new senate for the next term and passed more than 10 pieces of legislation in the body’s final meeting of the academic year Tuesday.
The outgoing senate approved six pieces of legislation, recognizing appreciation for the outgoing executive and senate members, allocating funds toward GW Law student orientations and removing a communications committee from the body. After eight senators and members of the executive branch were sworn in, senators passed four pieces of legislation, like updating the SBA bylaws on senate meeting operations.
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The Student Association’s Graduate Senators Caucus released a statement Tuesday criticizing officials’ decision not to grant graduate students a tuition reduction during virtual instruction.
After graduate students were not included in a 10 percent tuition reduction provided for undergraduate students for the academic year, the caucus submitted a tuition report, documenting graduate students’ experiences related to the cost of virtual instruction, to University President Thomas LeBlanc and Provost Brian Blake in December. SA Sen. Sebastian Weinmann, Law-G and the chair of the Graduate Senators Caucus, said not treating graduate students the same as undergraduates “is nothing new.”
“I have seen and experienced first-hand how the University prioritizes the needs and concerns of undergraduate students over graduate students, despite the fact that GW is a majority-graduate institution,” Weinmann said in an email.
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All responsibilities identified in the petition are required of the SA president, according to the organization s bylaws and constitution.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2020 at 7:05 p.m.
The Student Association Senate has formally filed impeachment charges against SA President Howard Brookins.
SA Sen. Thomas Falcigno, CPS-G, and SA Sen. Sebastian Weinmann, Law-G, submitted a petition to Student Court Chief Judge Maggie O’Brien Wednesday outlining four bylaw and constitution violations as potential grounds for impeachment. The majority of the senate, 39 of 43 members, signed onto the petition in support of beginning impeachment proceedings, surpassing the one-third of senators needed to launch the process.Impeachment petition