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Student Senate discusses inclusivity on campus

Genevieve Redsten | Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Notre Dame’s Student Senate challenged vice president for student affairs Erin Hoffmann Harding to outline the University’s plan for inclusivity at Monday’s meeting, the first of the semester. The discussion followed the school-sponsored, diversity survey, which revealed nearly 50 percent of students have experienced adverse treatment based on their identity while on campus. Hoffmann Harding presented the

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Senate hears presentation from Campus Dining, discusses porn filter

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, December 4, 2018

In their last meeting of the fall semester, Notre Dame’s student senate heard a presentation from Campus Dining about new on-campus retail locations and discussed recent Observer articles regarding the porn filter. Senior director of Campus Dining Chris Abayasinghe and director of retail dining Luigi Alberganti led the presentation, where they announced the addition of

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Senate discusses presentation, confirms nominee

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, November 27, 2018

At their first meeting after Thanksgiving break, Notre Dame’s student senate continued a conversation from their previous meeting about students with disabilities. At their meeting immediately before Thanksgiving break, the senate heard a presentation from Scott Howland, coordinator of the Sara Bea Center for Students with Disabilities and Dr. Bill Stackman, the University’s associate vice

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Senate hears presentations, approves resolution

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Notre Dame’s student senate convened for its weekly meeting Monday evening, hearing presentations regarding the Sexual Conduct and Campus Climate Survey and Hesburgh Library renovations, as well as approving a new constitutional amendment and nominating senators for the Constitution Committee. Junior and student government director of gender relations Elizabeth Boyle started the meeting with a short

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Senate hears presentations on listening sessions, meal plan restructuring

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, November 6, 2018

At its weekly meeting, the Notre Dame student senate approved the nomination of the president of The Shirt project for the upcoming year and heard presentations on both the campus listening sessions regarding sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and campus dining meal plan restructuring. As the first order of business, senior Jin Kim, student

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Senate approves cabinet nominee, discusses resolution

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Meeting for the first time after fall break, Notre Dame’s student senate meeting centered around the confirmation of a new director of social concerns to student government’s executive cabinet. Sophomore Kevin Gallagher was nominated for the position, in light of the former director’s resignation for personal health reasons the week before fall break, senior and

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Senate hears presentation on Washington program, approves mental health resolution

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, October 9, 2018

At their weekly meeting, Notre Dame’s student senate approved an official resolution encouraging faculty to include information regarding mental health resources on their syllabi. Before the vote occurred, the group heard a presentation from senior Meredith Soward about the Notre Dame Washington program. Soward said the application to the semester-long program is open to both

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Senate discusses Honor Code, committee projects

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, October 2, 2018

The student senate, led by Sophomore Class Council president Sam Cannova and Junior Class Council president Laksumi Sivanandan, convened for their weekly meeting Monday to discuss the Student Safety Summit and the University Honor Code, among other topics. The first item of business was a briefing from sophomore senator Jack Usher of St. Edward’s Hall and

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Senate discusses voter registration, political engagement

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Notre Dame’s student senate spent the majority of its weekly meeting discussing voter registration and ways to engage the Notre Dame student body politically. ND Votes co-chair and sophomore Michael Marotta spoke about the ways the organization is trying to engage campus ahead of November’s midterm elections. “ND Votes is a nonpartisan voter registration, voter

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Group considers, confirms Election Committee members

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Notre Dame’s student senate spent most of their weekly meeting debating the confirmation of new members to the Judicial Board’s Election Committee. “According to the to Section 13.2 of the Constitution of the Undergraduate Student Body, ‘The Election Committee shall review all allegations of potential elections misconduct and all potential violations of elections regulations in

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