In an email to the student body Monday, Feb. 24, student body president-elect Jerry Vielhauer detailed applications for his and vice president-elect Sonia Lumley’s executive cabinet.
Attached to the email was a list of policy goals and initiatives broken down by department. The platform detailed a proposed consolidation of certain student departments and the creation of two new departments: campus nutrition and student-athlete relations.
The restructuring combined the department of first-generation, low-income (FGLI) student advocacy with the department of disability advocacy, forming a single entity.
The ticket also combined the department of gender relations: Title IX and women’s initiatives with the department of gender relations: LGBTQ+ advocacy into another single department.
The initial list also eliminated the department of national affairs and political engagement and the department of sustainability, both of which had been in place under previous student governments.
In a second email sent Friday, Feb. 28, Vielhauer and Lumley reversed these changes, with the exception of establishing a committee for sustainability rather than retaining the department of sustainability.
“We have heard meaningful feedback regarding our policy and we appreciate all of your interest and insight. As we promised, we are constantly listening to you, and we are prepared to make the changes necessary to serve the student body to the best of our ability,” Vielhauer wrote in the second email.
The incoming administration attached a feedback form to their second email, writing, “as always, we want your thoughts ... we will read all of the responses and take them into consideration.”
