The Associated Student Government (ASG) met to discuss the organizations stance towards vaping on campus as well as pass multiple bills on their Sept. 25 meeting.
ASG Vice President Angel Bautista, announced that there would need to be a decision made by the student leaders and a verbal statement would need to be issued to Vice Present John Marshall.
“Please be careful on your stance, do we want to follow the law or kick out vaping, we need to formulate our response precisely” Bautista said.
“If we think we need to follow the law then we can support it, but it is no longer in our hands, because we have no authority to do it, it is just a stance. We could take more of an educational approach and getting a speaker or signs around campus, we can reasonably do those things and have the means” Senate Leader Haley Wiedeman said.
“ASG recognizes the health risk of vaping and therefore supports the administration’s actions to prevent or stop it on campus,” Senator Daniel Haas said.
Following further discussion, Senator Karson Fye suggested a different statement.
“ASG agrees with the law and we want to abide by the law and a good way to abide by the law is to approach it informatively to get the word around.” Fye stated.
The discussion was moved to end after an agreement was made that both senators had similar statements, one being slightly shorter than the other.
In other news, Editor in Chief of The Criterion, Chris DeLeon, presented Bill 19-10 which sought to make changes to The Criterion Constitution. DeLeon explained that the current constitution states that in order to receive $10 for writing an article for The Criterion, the word count would be 400 words or less and in order to receive $15, the word count would be 450 words or more.
“It should 449 and 450 respectively. It was an oversight on my part and we put the right numbers. We need that changed because we had a weird gap between compensation of 400 and 450, where there was that no-man’s land. We are just trying to close the gap, so there is no confusion,” DeLeon said.
DeLeon also explained that the Criterion would be adding the position of copy editor. “A copy editor is supposed to, and it would eliminate inaccuracies, libel and slander, and limit the need of corrections,” DeLeon said.
After thorough questioning and discussion, it was decided that the bill would be tabled for the time being.
The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) presented Bill 19-11 seeking additional funding for the association to travel to a conference and a concert. ACDA explained that the association has been actively fundraising to afford the trip and asked for $1,584 for transportation costs. The bill passed with 20 for and 1 against.
Senator Daniel Haas presented a House of Appropriations Committee (HAC) appointment appointing a new member to the committee. The appointment passed with 20 for and 1 abstain.
