2008 Woodie Awards
CUSA Senator Meet and Greet
Liz Urban
Issue date: 4/3/06 Section: News
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The Clarkson University Student Association (CUSA) Senate is driven to improve Clarkson University for all of the students on campus. On Thursday evening at 6:00 p.m., the Senate set up a "Meet and Greet" with the candidates running for senator positions in the coming elections. This meeting was meant for students to come and ask questions about their views of the year to come and learn what the Senate is all about. The Senator and class officer elections will be this Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. across from Main Street Café in Cheel.
First and foremost, the new CUSA Senate president Beth Greene explained while being interviewed at the Meet and Greet, "CUSA is the entire student body and the Senate is who we are." The students of Clarkson often forget that they are a part of CUSA and the senators are the representatives from each class.
Samantha Vokaty and Andrea Trendowski, two students from the Class of 2009 who are running again for Senate, eagerly expressed how much they enjoyed being apart of CUSA. The Student Life Committee, Samantha described, has been trying to find ways to encourage student feedback about issues throughout campus. She felt that the CUSA comment box located in Cheel was a good start, because they were able to receive great suggestions that otherwise would have gone unheard.
Andrea Trendowski, part of the Dining Committee, explained different activities that were able to take place this year such as the waited dinners. Senate was described as being fun and the students were left with the feeling that they were getting things done around school. Although it is sometimes time consuming, it allows for different opinions to be heard and as senator candidate Brittany Cardone said, it allows for the possibility for "a better Clarkson."
Many of the candidates for Senate articulated that one of their main concerns was trying to get the students of Clarkson interested and aware of the different projects and things going on throughout the Senate. Beth Greene described plans of the possibility of a monthly newsletter that would be distributed through the mail to all the students on campus outlining what the Senate has been working on or has accomplished during that month. She hopes to incorporate a more effective way to relay information to the students instead of the mass amounts of announcement emails that most students do not read. The important thing is to make the students outside of the Senate aware of what the Senate is doing and hopefully become more motivated to help and get involved.
First and foremost, the new CUSA Senate president Beth Greene explained while being interviewed at the Meet and Greet, "CUSA is the entire student body and the Senate is who we are." The students of Clarkson often forget that they are a part of CUSA and the senators are the representatives from each class.
Samantha Vokaty and Andrea Trendowski, two students from the Class of 2009 who are running again for Senate, eagerly expressed how much they enjoyed being apart of CUSA. The Student Life Committee, Samantha described, has been trying to find ways to encourage student feedback about issues throughout campus. She felt that the CUSA comment box located in Cheel was a good start, because they were able to receive great suggestions that otherwise would have gone unheard.
Andrea Trendowski, part of the Dining Committee, explained different activities that were able to take place this year such as the waited dinners. Senate was described as being fun and the students were left with the feeling that they were getting things done around school. Although it is sometimes time consuming, it allows for different opinions to be heard and as senator candidate Brittany Cardone said, it allows for the possibility for "a better Clarkson."
Many of the candidates for Senate articulated that one of their main concerns was trying to get the students of Clarkson interested and aware of the different projects and things going on throughout the Senate. Beth Greene described plans of the possibility of a monthly newsletter that would be distributed through the mail to all the students on campus outlining what the Senate has been working on or has accomplished during that month. She hopes to incorporate a more effective way to relay information to the students instead of the mass amounts of announcement emails that most students do not read. The important thing is to make the students outside of the Senate aware of what the Senate is doing and hopefully become more motivated to help and get involved.