Student government to decide on BUC renovations
The Student Government Association introduced a resolution Monday expressing SGA’s support of the Student Services Committee’s plan to expand and reorganize Bovee University Center.
The resolution will be voted on Monday.
“When Bovee was originally constructed, it was built to serve 6,000 students,” said Sen. Steve Latour. “We are now at a school with 20,000 people, and this building just does not serve the purpose of a true student union.”
When students here find out that they will not be paying any more, they are generally in favor of having a student union, said Latour, Berkley senior.
If the project continues, it will cost between $15 million and $20 million. Nearly $1 million per year will come from the Campus Improvement Fee to pay for the new building.
The Board of Trustees will vote on the plan Dec. 6 during its meeting.
A resolution to support campus police in its efforts to improve the parking situation on campus was approved Nov. 19.
The plan moved all northwest quad resident parking from Lot 8 to Lot 62 and Lot 63. It also extended shuttle bus hours from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
“Students say they want a parking structure built, but it is not feasible,” he said. “We have been in communication with Michigan State (University), who just built a parking structure, and they say there are just as many parking problems with that as there were before because nobody wants to park on the second or third level.”
CMU Police are making efforts to solve the parking problem and those should be even more helpful than if the school were to build a parking structure, he said.
A resolution was presented to express SGA’s support of adding a new leadership minor. After extensive discussion, the vote was tabled until the next meeting so that more student opinions and information could be gathered.
University officials began to consider this addition last spring and no department wanted take on the responsibility, so there was no funding available, said resolution co-author Sen. Nicole Wright, Clinton Twp. junior.
“Students want this minor, and if we pass this resolution, further steps will be taken by the Academic Affairs committee in encouraging a department to offer this minor so it will be funded,” she said.
In other news:
- An open forum to discuss dining services will take place Tuesday at a place to be announced.
- Members of the Student Service Committee are attempting to get sorority, fraternity and large religious houses added to maps across campus next year.
- SGA is exploring the possibility of changing its logo or cleaning up its existing logo. This would begin next year as well as the adoption of a slogan.
- Minority Student Services, the Organization for Black Unity and Alpha Kappa Alpha social sorority will sponsor a comedy jam at 8 p.m. Dec. 8 in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
