The Red and Black finally picked up on this story (here).
The question here is that the SGA Constitution requires 10% of the students to vote in a “special election” for the SGA Constitution, before the Constitution can be approved.
So, how many students voted in the election? Well, it depends what the definition of “special [...]
It seems that our venerable SGA President Jamie Peper is having some problems with her communication (one of her administration’s three main points) skills as of late. She sent this email out over quite a few campus organization listservs today:
*Vote Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday on OASIS in Student Body Elections!*
Take the time to make [...]
To see the full news report that was on Fox 5 today, click here. Or watch here:
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My favorite quotes from the report:
“Any time you’re in an election, you don’t know ’til the end. There’s still a lot of suspense, suspense.” Prez-Elect Katy Bowers
“We want the organization to continue. We can’t make [...]
A quick update for the weekend.
After Action: Demosthenian Debate on SGA
The Great SGA Debate was indeed great. I was surprised at the turnout, both in the number of non-SGA people there and the small number of SOS candidates that came out to listen to student opinion. I don’t know all the SOS candidates [...]
The Red and Black has acknowledged its mistakes yesterday and has printed a front page correction.
The Red and Black calls yesterday’s multiple screw-ups “a reporter’s error.” Even if this was the fault of the reporter, it would still be interesting to see who in SGA gave this faulty information to the reporter.
The Red and [...]
Today the Red and Black printed a front page article on the upcoming SGA elections and the possibility of SGA being abolished. The article talks about the vote that takes place every 4 years, where students can decide whether or not the Student Government Association should stay around for another 4 years. On [...]
On January 18th (Thursday, 7pm), the Demosthenian Literary Society will debate the merits of abolishing the UGA Student Government Association. The resolution will be:
Be It Resolved: The Student Government Association of the University of Georgia should continue to operate.
This resolution will be presented by someone in SGA, possibly even President Jamie Peper or Vice [...]
The SGA Senate approved a new constitution shortly before the end of the semester. To read the new SGA constitution, click here. I am also going to copy and paste it below, but be forewarned again, I am not going to change the horrible SGA formatting.
The student body will get to approve this [...]