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.
The new SDSU Wellness Center officially opened for business on Sunday, August 31. Over the Labor Day holiday, the wellness center operated shortened hours, and will begin its normal schedule on Tuesday, August 2nd.
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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