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Meisner
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by JULIANNE OLSON
Intern News Reporter
Four delegates will represent the 17 University of North Carolina system schools during the Association of Student Government conference Saturday, where they will discuss and share student issues with the UNC Board of Governors.
“We will bring student issues to the attention of the Board of Governors and share ideas and initiatives with other campuses in the UNC system,” Jonathan H. Meisner, Student Government Association president said.
Friday night will kick off the conference with a dinner at Chancellor Kenneth E. Peacock’s house to meet with the UNC schools to preview the legislation and agenda for the conference on Saturday.
The general assembly will begin in the Calloway Peak Room of Plemmons Student Union and will then break out into sub-committees.
The
Academic and Student Affairs Committee, represented by Peter A. Rowe,
SGA director of Academic Affairs, will be working on a resolution for
student tuition.
“My main job is to foster discussion at these meetings so we can come up with a solution,” Rowe said.
An
8 percent student tuition increase, with a $200 maximum increase, for
the 2010-11 school year was passed in August. ASG hopes to counter this
by decreasing the amount and putting the money straight into the
universities themselves in the form of financial aid, T. Greg Doucette,
president of UNC ASG said.
“We
do not think it is appropriate for the General Assembly to balance the
state budget on the backs of the students in North Carolina,” Doucette
said. “If students and administrators work together, we can make great
things happen.”
The legislative and public affairs committee will compile a list of items ASG wants to lobby for to the General Assembly.
The committee will then formalize the five to six items and then ASG will vote on the list of lobby items.
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The
government operations and community services committee, represented by
SGA Director of Civic Engagement Brian E. Harbour, will review campus
innovation grants Saturday.
Each campus had six weeks to submit an application for a piece of the $8,000 in grant money available to UNC schools.
The
committee will review all the campus applications and then determine
how much of the grant money each university will receive.
Appalachian
State University applied to receive funding for an Earth Day
fundraiser. The grant money would pay for t-shirts to advertise
businesses who donated money to allow the university to bring bands to
campus for the fundraiser.
“We
want to make sure we are representing our school first because other
campuses are trying to catch up to us modeling after the programs and
things we do here,” Michele D. Armstrong, SGA vice president said.
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