Category Archives: First Year Interest
Calling All First-Years
Interested in representing your class on Student Senate? Click here to learn more about the First-Year Senator position see below for a calendar of events regarding the election process.
Student Senate Meeting 11/18/10
Please join us for this week’s Student Senate meeting, tomorrow at 9pm in the Drake Room in upper Olmsted. At this meeting:
- Inauguration of First-Year Senator David Karaz
- Funding allocations for SAB (regional and national NACA conventions)
Want to see the full agenda and motions? Click here to download a PDF of everything you’ll need for this week’s Senate meeting! Missed last week’s meeting? Download a PDF of the minutes from our 11/11/10 meeting to catch up.
NOTE: This week’s meeting will not be live-blogged or live-tweeted. We will return next week with live-blogging, but feel free to share your feedback during the meeting by posting a comment below or tweeting at @DrakeStuSenate.
David Karaz, First-Year Senator
Congratulations to David Karaz, Drake University’s first ever First-Year Senator. David was elected this week to represent the first-year student population at Drake. We will post more about David and his goals for the First-Year Interest committee in the coming weeks!
UPDATE: Read more about David’s reaction to being elected to sit around the table in today’s Times-Delphic story about the election results.
Student Senate Meeting 11/11/10
First, we’d like to thank you for all your feedback regarding which e-mail systems you’d like to see at Drake. We will pass the results of our poll along to Ann Kovalchick, the Chief Information Technology Officer, so she and the e-mail migration committee will have student feedback as they move forward in their decision-making process. You can send any other thoughts or concerns to her via e-mail at ann.kovalchick@drake.edu.
Please join us for this week’s Student Senate meeting, tomorrow at 9pm in the Drake Room in upper Olmsted. We’ll also be live-blogging the meeting on this website, so head back to drakesenate.com to follow along. At this meeting:
- Updates from Dannie Crozier, Sodexo General Manager
- E-mail migration update
- First-Year Senator election update
- Funding allocations for Drake Mind Sports (pool tournament)
- Organizational approval for Visual Arts Association of Drake (VAAD) and Drake Women’s Lacrosse
Want to see the full agenda and motions? Click here to download a PDF of everything you’ll need for this week’s Senate meeting! Missed last week’s meeting? Download a PDF of the minutes from our 11/4/10 meeting to catch up.
New this week: the minutes include last week’s voting record. Take a look if you’re interested in how your senators voted on a particular issue or motion!
First-Year Senator Candidates
Voting begins tonight for Drake University’s first First-Year Senator election. First-year students have 24 hours to vote for one of the seven candidates through blueView.
The Times-Delphic published an overview of the seven candidates on their website and in their November 8 print edition. Click here to view the story and learn more about the candidates!
