XAVIER SGA Exec Campaign Commences
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XAVIER Basketball preview edition Published by the students of Volume CVI Issue 11 Xavier University since 1915 October 30, 2019 NEWSWIRE Fiat justitia, ruat caelum xaviernewswire.com SGA Exec campaign commences After last year’s four tickets, one team is running for the executive positions There is one ticket running for Wheelchair Accessible the executive positions in Student Government Association this Academics year. However, the ticket must re- Providing students with a choice ceive at least 50% of the student over the format of their textbooks body vote and one additional vote in order to win the seats. Ipad checkouts for online text- The ticket goes by the name books CPP (Community, Passion, Progress), and is comprised Reinvigoration of Academic of Thomas Wehby, Michaela Honesty Commitment Townsend and Mahnoor Zahra. You can read a brief summa- Sustainability ry of their platform here and a Recycling full version will be available on • Increase Number of Recy- xaviernewswire.com. The plat- cling Bins form is unedited to preserve their • Properly inform students original language. about on-campus recycling • Review the overall effec- Our Mission: tiveness of the type of bins Our mission is to bring the we have around campus diverse community of Xavier Campus Compost together to ensure the pro- • Work with GoZero and vision of equitable opportu- ConneX and create a cam- nity to every individual. Our pus compost plan for all united love and passion for Photo courtesy of Thomas Wehby food scraps produced in the our university will drive us to Mahnoor Zahra (left), Thomas Wehby (Center) and Michaela Townsend (right) are running for the Student Government Executive positions. You can read a shortened version of the platform they submitted to Newswire. caf pursue the Xavier Values of Partnering with Metro bus integrity, justice, and generos- • Creating comfortable and reporting range cal establishments • Reduce the stigma sur- ity across campus. With prog- safe spaces for internation- Multicultural food options rounding the use of Metro ress in mind, we aim to learn al students to share their Engagement on Campus • Push for multicultural food Buses together, to serve together culture. Reinvigoration of Involvement availability inside Hoff • Work to get students a dis- and grow together. • Providing secure housing • Improve digital literacy counted bus fair We have built our plat- for students who get ad- and virtual presence of Accessibility Lyft Partnership form around three core val- mitted late as a result of clubs and organizations on Expanding Wheelchair Accessi- Solar on the Green ues: Community, Passion and the international admission campus bility across campus • Provide a solar powered Progress. Community entails process. Event Hosting Policy Changes • Ensure every dorm has Ac- solution to the lack of ensuring each Xavier student • Connecting students with • Review current OSI policy cessible Clicker-activated outlets on the yard by in- can find spaces for themselves companies who accept and changes involving Walk-by doors stalling a solar powered on campus, building intersec- support international in- event planning • Properly marking curbside charging station tional relationships amongst terns and employees by • “Coffee, Concerns, and ramps with blue paint students and further cultivat- working with Career De- Community” • Permanent ramp for DIFT Recreation ing the already existing Xavi- velopment Office and the • Host a weekly Coffee Hour Studio Lounging on the Green er community. Passion deals Center for International for students to express • Working to make Kuhl- • Install Permanent Ham- with the parts of our identi- Education their concerns to the Exec- man’s Yard Entrance mock Posts ties that we hold closest and Commuters Accommodations utives Wheelchair Accessible • Invest in more permanent translating that into different • Creation of a “Commuter • Building a ramp for the Swings on the Yard areas across campus through One Night Hotel” system Dining Husman Stage, a center projects and initiatives; we • Women of color speaking Conversation with ConneX point of the community Student Government Fi- want to encourage all Xavi- series • Talk about current satisfac- Caf Help Availability nance er students to find what they • Bring in 3-5 speakers each tion with oncampus dining • Make the Caf more acces- • Push for University funded are passionate about and put semester, all Women of options sible via offering helpers to elections in order to pre- that passion to work to cre- Color, who can share how • Talk about the filling Cur- students who need them vent any non-Xavier affil- ate change. Progress, to us, their passions turned into ritos space, post-lease • Post signs that inform stu- iated organizations from means constantly furthering tangible work. • “Hoff Food Excursions” - dents of the available assis- having any serious impact the institution we love. Prog- LGBTQ+ Policy opportunity for the Dining tance on our elections. ress means we will identify • Work with Alliance and Hall to cater food from lo- • Officially mark the tables as aspects of the Xavier experi- Members of the LGBTQ+ ence that can be reformed, ad- community justed or eliminated to ensure • Create an Ally Checkbox SGA Senate Elections that all students are met with for Residence Halls access to equitable opportuni- Mosaic Initiative This year, the Board of Elections has decided to combine the ty across campus. • A roundtable for all Identi- ty Clubs on campus Senate elections with the Executive election. Both will be hap- Diversity & Inclusion • Mosaic “Being an Ally” pening on Wednesday, Nov. 6. International students Workshop for supporting • Increasing the recruitment Minorities across our Com- The students who have applied to be senators responded to and retention of interna- munity three questions: tional students. (1) Why are you interested in serving in this position? • Increasing financial assis- Student Wellness & Safety (2) What makes you qualied to serve in this oce? tance through need-based • Menstrual Care Products and merit-based scholar- Across Campus (3) If you could change one thing about Xavier, what would it ships • Open forum with admin- be, and how would you accomplish this? • Extending our support to istration, XUPD, faculty all international and iden- leaders Their answers can be found online at xaviernewswire.com. tity clubs/organizations • Continuing “Your School, through partnership pro- Your Questions” grams. • Enhancing XU AlertMe In other news, the basketball issue is here! It begins on page 6. 2 October 30, 2019 Campus News xaviernewswire.com U-Station expansion announced New “campus near” apartment complex will accommodate more students Xavier students to live nearby on-campus housing,” he said. planning phase. without the university taking “Now that the university has Shane Manzi, a sophomore on the upkeep and operations built more of a national foot- finance major, was thrilled by costs of on-campus residence print, we decided we would the idea of more places for halls and apartments. like to provide 70% of our students to live. “Xavier has limited re- students with campus hous- “I think expanding (cam- sources for how much housing ing, if they want it.” pus near) housing is great. we can build, so this allows us Future construction proj- Our student body is expand- to have housing for our stu- ects are also in the works to ing, and it hasn’t always been dents without having to do it continue toward the 70% goal easy for my class to get plac- all ourselves,” Vice President and accommodate the univer- es to live,” Manzi said. “Right of Facilities Bob Sheeran said. sity’s growing student popu- now the option is spend a lot Other institutions desig- lation. of money on campus or move nated as “campus near” in- This includes the potential off campus, so I think if there clude the All for One Shop construction of another un- was a cheaper alternative I Graphic courtesy of Messer Construction Co. and Starbucks. dergraduate dorm on the plot would have taken it.” A second apartment complex at University Station has begun According to Sheeran, both of land between Kuhlman and Uptown Rentals is current- construction and is scheduled to be done before the next school year. sets of U-Station Apartments Buenger halls. The projected ly renting units for the 2020- were first planned roughly 15 dorm would hold 300 to 400 2021 school year in the soon- BY CHARLIE GSTALDER the HUB. years ago. beds and is currently in the to-be completed complex. 6WDৼ:ULWHU “We’re proud to assist in The university’s acquisi- A new set of University fulfilling the housing needs tion of the land on which the Station apartments are under of the university and further apartments stand began in October 28 construction with plans in Messer’s outstanding, long- 1990 following an explosion Student Government place to build units capable of time relationship with Xavi- at a chemical plant formerly housing 149 residents by July er,” Messer Development Vice located there. Initially, devel- Association Meeting Recap 2020. President Brian Doyle said in opers planned to build a hotel According to local news an official statement. “We’re there but became apprehen- COURTESY OF CLARISSA DIXON source Fox 19, construction excited to kick-start addition- sive about placing a hotel far The Center for Diversity and Inclusion will on the 49-unit expansion al development at the site and from the interstate. Thus, the have another Racial Roundtable this Thursday began in August and, when continue the revitalization in idea of using the land for stu- from 1-2:30 p.m. in the Clock Tower Lounge. completed, will stand adjacent the community that began in dent housing was born. This series is an intimate dialogue program to the Health United Build- 2013.” The first U-Station apart- that gives faculty, staff and students the op- ing (HUB) and the current U-Station apartments are ment complex was completed portunity to discuss topics about racial justice.