The three new team members to join President-elect Brett Monson and Vice President-elect Erin Kennedy on the SA Executive Board have been announced. The Finance chair will be Anthony Sutton, the Administrative Assistant shall be Kate Wegehaupt, and the State & Local Chair position will be filled by Eric Haiar. The newly elected Senate will be sworn in at the March 15th general SA meeting.
View the results here: 2010 Students' Association Election Results
The 2010 Students' Association Elections will be open on Wednesday, February 24th and Thursday, February 25th from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Please be sure to vote today! You can find polling locations at the Student Union, Wellness Center, Rotunda Breezeway, Animal Science, and Crothers Engineering. You may also vote online at: http://courseinfo.sdstate.edu/SAelection/
On January 25th, applications will open for the general Students’ Association Senate seats. Nominations for slates for the offices of President and Vice President were opened at the last meeting on Monday, January 18th. The elections will take place on February 24th and 25th. For more information, please visit the Elections Page!
Lee Jones from B-Cycle presented at the Transportation Board yesterday (10/20/2009). State and Local Grandorff was in attendance and took notes from his presentation and Q&A Session. Please view the whole story here: http://stateandlocal.wordpress.com/ .
The SDSU Students' Association launched the new Student Discount Club today. Please get all the information at The SDSU Student Discount Club.
The State and Local Committee has launched a new blog. This blog/website will also contain contact information for various legislators and SDSU faculty. Please visit the Students' Association State & Local Committee Blog at Updates from SA's State & Local Committee .
Ordinance 09-01-O was presented at the previous Students' Association Senate Meeting. It is intended to make sure correct college representation is listed in the SA Constitution. Please veiw the ordinance HERE .
Student tailgating has undergone some drastic changes. There will no longer be $5 parking spots that you can select the day of a game. Tailgating spots must be purchased on the Wednesday before a game by 5:00 PM. There was a proposal to require wristbands for everyone who is over 21 years of age. It was also proposed to not allow students to drive vehicles into the student section. The Students’ Association opposed both of these issues, in order to protect student tailgating.
Three new Office Assistants have been hired for the 2009-2010 Students' Association Senate term. Riley Svatos is the only returning Office Assistant, and she will be joined by newcomers Brett Monson, Ryan Stee, and Anthony Sutton.
At the general Students' Association Senate meeting on March 30th, eighteen interviews were held for At Large applicants. Ryan Stee, Megan Schiferl, Sara Pepper, Emily Carruth, Anthony Sutton, and Melanie Zinter are the final six At Large members to fill the SA Senate roster. Please visit the Legislation page to view Resolution 09-05-R, which passed unanimously.
Four Resolutions and two Special Allocations were passed at the first full Senate meeting of the term. You can find these resolutions on the Legislation page. Please test the new URL address of sdstatesa.com that will direct you to the SA Senate Website. Senator At Large applications are due at 5:00 PM on Friday, March 27th. A Board of Directors meeting will take place in the SA Office Conference Room the same day at 5:15 PM.
President Matt Tollefson and Vice President Michael Kendall were officially sworn in at the regular SA Senate meeting on Monday, March 16th, 2009. The following day, they announced their selected Executive Board. The Board consists of Ashley Dumke as Finance Chair, Brandon Bausch as Administrative Assistant, and Catherine Grandorff as State & Local Chair. At-Large appliations are officially open!
The results for this year's election have been posted on the Results page. Please visit the link below, and congratulations to the newly elected President, Vice President, and Senators!
http://studentorgs.sdstate.org/studentsassociation/results.htm
Please be sure to VOTE on January 25th and 26th between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Polling stations can be found at
Rotunda Breezeway, Main Street of The Union, Animal Science, Wellness Center, and Crothers Engineering.
You may also vote online at http://courseinfo.sdstate.edu/SAelection/
The KDLT news team came onto campus to feature our new SDSU Wellness Center. They took video of the fitness floor, and did a follow-up story after profiling the new facility during initial construction.
Meetings are held Mondays at 7:00 p.m. in the Lewis & Clark Room of the Union. Click HERE for previous updates.
Message From President Matt Tollefson:
Students of South Dakota State University,
First let me start by saying thank you. It is truly an honor and privilege to represent such a diverse and outstanding student body. It is my hope that this year I will make an impact in the lives of students here at SDSU. My Vice President, Michael Kendall, and I would like to invite all of you to stop by the Students’ Association office. Let us know what you would like to see changed at SDSU. We are your elected representation and if we do not know what concerns you have we can not fully do our job. Once again we look forward to meeting you and hearing your concerns!
Some things to look forward to for the upcoming year:
-Increased communication between students and the Students’ Association.
-Launching of the Alternative Learning cloud. This will provide 600 new wireless access points throughout campus.
-Bike lanes through campus and in the city of Brookings connecting campus with the city.
-The construction of the new Residence Hall and Union expansion with the opening set for the fall of 2010.
-Opening of the New Harding Hall.
-Completion of Avera Health and Sciences Center in the summer of 2010.
-A new season of Jackrabbit Athletics.
-A new season of activities from the music and theater department.
Along with these highlights there are numerous events and activities that you can get involved in. I strongly encourage all of you to get involved in something. Take full advantage of the years that you are in college. Study abroad, join The Pride, participate in the Intramural Belly Flop contest, take in every part of Hobo Week, or see which couch in the union is the most comfortable. However you choose to spend your time at SDSU is up to you, but make sure it is something that you will remember. With all of the new exciting changes that we have coming up in the next year it is easy to see that “It’s a great day to be a Jackrabbit!”
Sincerely,
Matt Tollefson
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