Thomas Fleming

Follow Student Senate meetings as they happen.

Meetings are at 8 p.m. Wednesdays in Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center.

After investigating the delayed 2010 Student Senate elections, Director of Student Activities Dan Napolitano sanctioned Student Senate on March 20 to review and improve bylaws and election policies by October.

For students living in first-year residence halls, the Feb. 26 snow day and following weekend was the perfect time to build large snow forts and hold a siege against intruders.

“It was necessary to build such a large fort because our freshman class wanted it to be known that no matter how high upperclassmen and jocks think they are, they will not destroy the dreams of artists and engineers,” first-year BFA student Brandon Warren said in an e-mail to the Fiat Lux. “If they do, we will bounce back with something that has a design twice that of before.”

Follow Student Senate meetings as they happen.

Meetings are at 8 p.m. Wednesdays in Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center.

Follow Student Senate meetings as they happen.

Meetings are at 8 p.m. Wednesdays in Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center.

Follow Student Senate meetings as they happen.

Meetings are at 8 p.m. Wednesdays in Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center.

Last week's minutes can be found here: 2-10-10 Student Senate Minutes

Student Senate President Amos Mainville read President Charley Edmondson’s Feb. 5 program cut decisions at the Feb. 10 Student Senate meeting.

According to Edmondson's statement, these decisions are not all of the strategic cut decisions that are going to be made. Some decisions have stricter deadlines than others.

The Fiat Lux will follow up with more coverage on these cuts in the next issue.

The decisions so far are based on a proposal released by the Strategic Planning Council in December 2009, and are as follows:

Follow Student Senate meetings as they happen.

Meetings are at 8 p.m. Wednesdays in Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center.

Last week's minutes can be found here: 2-10-10 Student Senate Minutes

Follow Student Senate meetings as they happen.

Meetings are at 8 p.m. Wednesdays in Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center.

Last week's minutes can be found here: 1-27-09 Student Senate Minutes

If Governor Paterson’s proposed Executive Budget for 2010-2011 passes as it stands, the College of Ceramics could receive a significant cut in funding, meaning more budget cuts for the University.

“It will mean more cuts, but it will be a different kind of cut,” AU President Charley Edmondson said.