Student Union Senate has planned several events over the upcoming week for Senate Outreach Week.

Senate Outreach Committee co-chairs Becca Craig and Jake Novick hope that Senate Outreach Week will provide a forum for the Senate to learn from the student body and vice versa.

“What we want is to get student input because as Senators, we’re the voice for students and we can’t advocate on their behalf and we don’t know what their issues are,” Craig said. “So we’re really trying to make the effort to let them know what we’ve been working on, and we really, really want input from them.”

“I hope we get a renewed perspective on what issues students care about and a lot of fresh suggestions so we can go back to administrators and say, ‘Hey, we’ve been speaking to students and a lot of them think X, Y, Z. And we think it’s a really good solution,’” Novick said.

Monday:

Why is there a HOLE on the South 40?
Dining and construction forum
8-9:30 p.m.
Mudd Multipurpose Room
(Hosted by Campus Services Committee)

Officials from Dining Services and the Office of Residential Life will talk about the South 40 as it heads into its final stage of construction.  Time has been allotted for questions and concerns after the presentation.

Senators in the DUC
11 a.m.–2 p.m.
Danforth University Center Tisch Commons

Student Union senators in attendance:
11 a.m.-12 p.m.—Michelle Chen
12-1 p.m.—Jake Novick, Jake Laperruque,
Mamatha Challa
1-2 p.m.—Joseph Marcus, Michael Brodsky

Tuesday:

Senators in the DUC
11 a.m.–2 p.m.
Danforth University Center Tisch Commons

SU senators in attendance:
11 a.m.-12 p.m.—Vaidehi Ambai
12-1 p.m.—Mamatha Challa
1-2 p.m.—Jake Novick, Betel Ezaz, Matt Aiken, Mamatha Challa, Vinod Ravikumar

Wednesday:

Chancellor Mark Wrighton at SU Senate
9-10:30 p.m.
Mudd Multipurpose Room

Chancellor Wrighton will be taking questions from students at SU Senate this week.
“We really want to be a presence on campus. We don’t just want to meet in Simon 113 every Wednesday and talk about reform internally. We all have our own projects we want to work on but we really want students to know that we are working for them,” Craig said.
Students should feel  free to ask the chancellor anything, Craig said. Novick agreed. “This is something that you don’t really get very often at all so it’s a really cool opportunity and I’m glad we were able to schedule him in.”

Senators in the DUC
11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Danforth University Center Tisch Commons

Senators in attendance:
11 a.m.-12 p.m.—Robyn Michaelson, Michelle Chen, Tegan Bukowski, Michael Post
12-1 p.m.—Jake Novick, Joseph Marcus, Greg Schweizer, Becca Craig
1-2 p.m.—Jason Yakabu, Chase Sackett, Ceren Yalaz

Thursday:

Textbook reform discussion
7:30-8:30 p.m.
DUC, Tisch Commons
(Hosted by the University Initiatives Committee)

Senate will be addressing the issue of textbook prices and possible alternative solutions.
“One of our projects this semester is trying to work with the professors,” Craig said. “It’s not just the bookstore’s fault that the prices are so high; it’s also the professors that won’t turn in their booklists so the bookstore doesn’t know how to price things.”

Senators in attendance:
11 a.m.-1 p.m.—Eric Schwartz
1-2 p.m.—Jake Novick, Michael Post, Kirsten Miller, Mamatha Challa

Friday:

No events

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