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April 20, 2012
Relphorde/Grant win LBC elections
Greer Relphorde and Cameron Grant won the Legion of Black Collegians presidential elections, LBC announced on Twitter on Friday.
The election saw 2,734 votes, according to the Twitter feed. Relphorde-Grant had 58 percent of the vote.
Other newly elected chairs were also announced early Friday morning. Jamie Crockett was elected Communications Chair, Darrack Stephens was elected Finance Chair and Cynthia Spires was elected Political Chair.
April 18, 2012
Greek Week Fling finalists announced
Greek Week's Fling superlative winners and finalists were announced 10 p.m. Wednesday on the steps of Jesse Hall after three nights of Fling preliminaries. This year's theme is "Famous Couples Around the World."
The following pairings will perform in the finals: Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Phi and Tau Kappa Epsilon; Gamma Phi Beta, Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Tau Gamma; Delta Delta Delta, Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Nu; Chi Omega, Lambda Chi Alpha and FarmHouse; and Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Kappa Theta and Beta Sigma Psi.
The following pairings won superlatives:
Most original script: Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Kappa Theta and Beta Sigma Psi; Chi Omega, Lambda Chi Alpha and FarmHouse; and Alpha Phi, Phi Gamma Delta and Theta Chi
Best costumes: Kappa Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha and Acacia; Chi Omega, Lambda Chi Alpha and FarmHouse; and Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Phi and Tau Kappa Epsilon
Best choreography: Delta Delta Delta, Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Nu; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Kappa Theta and Beta Sigma Psi; and Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Phi and Tau Kappa Epsilon
Best backdrop: Alpha Phi, Phi Gamma Delta and Theta Chi; Chi Omega, Lambda Chi Alpha and FarmHouse; and Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Upsilon and Delta Chi
Best director: Delta Delta Delta, Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Nu; Chi Omega, Lambda Chi Alpha and FarmHouse; and Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Upsilon and Delta Chi
Best props/flats: Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Phi and Tau Kappa Epsilon; Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Alpha and Phi Delta Theta; and Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Sigma Pi
Best vocals: Kappa Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha and Acacia; Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Alpha and Phi Delta Theta; and Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Upsilon and Delta Chi
Most spirited grouping: Delta Delta Delta, Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Nu; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Kappa Theta and Beta Sigma Psi; and Kappa Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha and Acacia
Best incorporation of country: Kappa Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha and Acacia; Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Upsilon and Delta Chi; and Chi Omega, Lambda Chi Alpha and FarmHouse
Best supporting actor: Three Little Pigs, Luigi and Scooby-Doo
Best supporting actress: Velma, C3PO and Annette
Best actor: Kermit, Shrek and Mario
Best actress: Miss Piggy, Barbie and Bonnie
Best in-between-acts: "Fix You," "A Mashup," "You've Got a Friend in Me" and "Original MJ Mashup."
Finals will be held 7 p.m. Friday in Jesse Auditorium.
Steam, hot water outage scheduled for Thursday
From 5 to 10 a.m. Thursday, all steam heat and hot water will be shut off for the MU Student Center, Townsend Hall, the Arts and Science Building, Hulston Hall and Arvarh E. Strickland Hall, according to an email from Campus Facilities - Energy Management.
According to the email, the outage will allow for an new steam line. The new line is a planned part of the Rollins Steam Repair project.
April 2, 2012
MSA senator election votes counted despite error notification
Missouri Students Association senator elections for fall 2012 are under way, despite error messages voters are receiving. MSA Board of Elections Commissioners chairman Thomas Bourneuf said he is receiving votes from students logging in to vote.
Students who successfully vote will not be able to log in again, Bourneuf said. He said he is working on getting a mass email approved to let students know their votes are being counted.
March 22, 2012
Folk-Weber hires executive cabinet
Residence Halls Association President-elect Zack Folk and Vice President-elect Lindsay Weber selected members for their executive cabinet Wednesday.
The elected officials are as follows:
Matt Kalish: Financial Coordinator Kenton Gewecke: Programming Coordinator Lindsey Vigoda: Hall Governments Coordinator Brooke Shoopman: National Communications Coordinator Julie Larsen: Public Relations Coordinator James Jordan: Sustainability Coordinator
The cabinet will not be officially sworn in until May, Folk said.
March 21, 2012
Tyler Ricketts approved as BEC chairman
Tyler Ricketts was approved as Board of Elections Commissioners chairman Wednesday at Missouri Students Association Senate.
The Senate speaker, MSA president and the Chief Justice all approved Ricketts before the meeting.
Ricketts will be resigning as Student Affairs chairman and selecting his vice chairs in the near future.
March 2, 2012
Folk-Weber elected RHA president and vice president
Slate Zack Folk and Lindsay Weber was announced the winner of the Residence Halls Association presidential election Friday at the RHA Ball.
A total of 748 students voted in the election, RHA Speaker of Congress Kathy Rudd said.
Feb. 23, 2012
RHA not in process of creating complaint website
KCOU/88.1 FM reported on its website Wednesday the Residence Halls Association is in the process of creating a new online resource for residents to anonymously submit complaints about fellow residents as well as hall staff. The article also stated the organization is bringing in a tech expert in the coming weeks to get started on the project.
The information, cited from Lathrop Hall RHA representative Julia Diller, is mostly false, said RHA Speaker of Congress Kathy Rudd.
“About the only grain of truth in this entire article is that yes, in fact Julia is an RHA representative and that yes, in fact they discussed having a complaint submission form online during the Advocacy committee,” Rudd said in an email. “I believe that right now, the committee is planning to help promote the current system that already exists on Residential Life's website, which is a suggestion box that anyone can give feedback on the department and it gets sorted to the most relevant employee to fix the issue. That link is on the Residential Life website now.”
This “suggestion box” asks the submitter to indicate whether the problem pertains to maintenance, staff, students, policy, general behavior or a specific incident. It later inquires the submitter if he or she has already made a report about the issue and, if so, the results of the report. The form has an optional space for the submitter to leave his or her name and contact information.
If a student wishes to report misconduct, he or she can contact student staff or the front desk of his or her hall. If the problem is with the student staff, reports can go to the hall coordinator. If the student would like to report a hall coordinator or other professional staff, he or she may contact a professional in Residential Life all the way up to the department’s director, Frankie Minor. Rudd advises using this process before going to the online submission forum.
If RHA representatives choose to pursue the idea of a complaint submission website further, it could become a larger project for the organization in the future.
MSA moves legislation to second reading, approves SFRC changes
The Missouri Students Association Senate voted to amend its bylaws regarding the Student Fee Review Committee on Wednesday. The bill will remove MSA’s participation requirement in the SFRC and fee recommendations by the SFRC will no longer be brought to MSA Senate for approval.
The changes were recommended by Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs, who approves all fee recommendations by the SFRC before they go to the UM System Board of Curators.
MSA Senate Speaker Jake Sloan supported the changes, saying giving MSA automatic spots on the committee was a conflict on interest because the SFRC approves fees that go directly to MSA.
The bill was moved from first reading of acts to second reading at the beginning of the meeting, which Sloan said was to expedite the selection of the SFRC chair and the SFRC members. Some senators did not think the bill was given enough consideration before it was voted on.
“I think that it was pushed through too quickly,” Grace Haun, former Campus and Community Relations chairwoman, said. “I think that we should have spent more time discussing the bill because it really was a major bylaw change.”
Haun said many of the senators voting on the bill were freshman, and did not understand MSA’s role in student fee approval in the past.
“Historically, senate has always voted on student fees,” she said. “I just think that the bill wasn’t talked about in a way where they understood that this was a major function of MSA.”
Feb. 22, 2012
Sloan reelected MSA Senate Speaker
The Missouri Students Association Senate reelected Jake Sloan during Senate on Wednesday.
Sloan won by a majority vote against Student Affairs Chairman Tyler Ricketts. This was the third consecutive year Sloan has run for Senate Speaker and his second consecutive win.