At Monday night’s Student Association meeting, the assembly elected a new board of elections and memberships chair to replace SA member Marlene Goldenberg.

Sophomore broadcasting journalism major Crystal Beavers was nominated and gave a short speech about her expectations for the role.

Beavers spoke about her wishes to improve the elections.

‘I hope to take it out to the students and help with the PR department,’ Beavers said.

The assembly approved Beavers in a unanimous vote.

Goldenberg plans to stay on the association despite vacating her position.

In other activities, the African American Male Congress received $18,701.60 for its Talented Tenth Leadership Institute Baccalaureate event, during which it plans to bring the Rev. Jesse Jackson to speak. The event will take place in Hendricks Chapel on Nov. 17 and all students are welcome.

Assembly members also approved a request from the Entrepreneurship Club for its trip to the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization conference in Chicago from Nov. 2 through Nov. 4, in the amount of $297.00.

In his report, SA President Wayne Horton briefly spoke about the ongoing cooperation with the administration regarding safety issues and also mentioned that a meeting will be held soon to discuss keeping the Goldstein Dining Center open later than it is presently.

Committee of Academic Affairs Chair Joe Wieder said that last week he met with the Dean of Admissions Susan Donovan and discussed concerns about SU’s early admissions program and how it might affect lower income and minority students, in relation to the recent discontinuation of Harvard’s program.

‘Fortunately, Syracuse’s program doesn’t even compare to Harvard’s,’ Wieder said.

To wrap up the meeting, Committee of University Affairs Chair Joy LaChelle Ingraham discussed changes that will be made to the SA Web site to reorganize members by their affiliated school or college for easier contact.

‘We should be representing people from our schools,’ Ingraham said.

Also, the Committee of University Affairs was asked to bring a list of suggested sites for future SU Study Abroad locations, Ingraham said. The list includes: Tokyo; Buenos Aires; Dublin; Athens; St. Petersburg; Cairo; Cape Town; Perth, Australia; Santiago, Chile; Rio de Janiero, Brazil and Prague, Czech Republic. Another location to be discussed will be Los Angeles, California for USA tuition exchange.

Next Monday’s SA meeting will be held at 7:30 in the Physics Building’s Stolkin Auditorium.

Published on October 15, 2006 at 12:00 pm