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Volume CVII Issue 23 March 18, 2021 xaviernewswire.com Published by the students of Xavier University since 1915 Fiat justitia, ruat caelum SGA executives strive for change Executives appoint three new positions, propose expanded powers BY JOSEPH COTTON budget and helps new senators request funds for their Campus News Editor initiatives. The Chief Justice The Student Government enforces the rules outlined Association (SGA) executives in the Constitution, ensures have taken actions to imple- they are followed on a meet- ment constitutional changes, ing-by-meeting basis and me- despite the amendments not diates impeachment proceed- passing by Senate vote for two ings that may arise. years in a row. “The reason we implement- SGA President Mickey ed these positions is so that we Townsend, a junior Philos- could show the Senate that we ophy, Politics and the Pub- need these positions and that lic (PPP) major, has been a they do work,” Townsend key figure in the process. She said. “The problem was that has proposed changes to the last year a lot of the Senate SGA Constitution during her didn’t know why we needed lengthy tenure on SGA. them and didn’t think stu- “I’ve been working on dents would be interested.” the Constitution changes SGA Vice President Ma- for three years and it’s been rina Salazar also noted that shut down four times in those the people currently have no three years,” Townsend said. formal power. Though the ex- “That’s the thing I’m look- ecutive board has no voting ing forward to the most (this power, each of them are cur- year). I’m looking forward to rently managing their sectors adding any small pieces to the of SGA in and out of meet- Constitution and just develop- ings. Photo courtesy of @SGAXavier via twitter ing a new brand for SGA.” “These positions are not of- With high turnover rates, this year’s SGA executives are looking to change SGA’s structure in an effort to keep The first step in imple- ficial positions within SGA,” senators engaged. The executives have added three new positions and are looking to make more changes. menting these changes was Salazar said. “We’re going to absorbed into other offices on eral senators noted that these Constitution Ad-Hoc Com- creating an executive board. have the Senate vote on them campus. However, these most positions were not approved mittee last year, had mixed To fill this board, the presi- again. The point was for them recent appointments would be by the senate body, but were emotions about the creation dent and vice presidents es- to see (the positions) in action the first time the SGA has in- instead just announced by the of the new positions. tablished three new roles. to see that they are necessary.” troduced multiple positions in executives. “I was in favor of the Con- These positions, while a part The executives stated that one year. In choosing students for stitution changes… (but) of the constitutional amend- they had the blessing of their Busam-Klenowski noted these roles, the executives said frankly, it kind of pissed me ments proposed to the Senate Advisor Leah Busam-Kle- that the positions were creat- they performed a formal ap- off that they just went ahead last year, were appointed this nowski in the implementation ed on a loose interpretation pointment process, complete with the new positions any- winter break by the execu- of these new positions. of Article II, Section 3a of with applications and inter- way,” he said. tives. “(Our advisor) said that the Constitution, which reads, views. “(SGA) wants to have this This new board is com- something similar had hap- “The Executive may appoint This differed slightly from transparency with the stu- posed of the Director of pened in the past and that, as any temporary (ad-hoc) com- Grandon’s interpretation of dent body, so they know who Communications, filled by ju- long as we tell the Senators mittees or commissions to the process. After previously gets elected and how they get nior communications studies that we were passing these po- investigate issues, propose expressing interest to the ex- elected. If the new positions major Myles Adams; the Di- sitions out, it would be okay,” courses of action, or execute ecutives in a senate position, they have created are still not rector of Finance, filled by ju- SGA Vice President MaKayla policy as may be necessary. Grandon noted the executives in the Constitution, we don’t nior PPP and economics ma- Conners said. These appointments are not later approached him about know those things. It seems jor Tom Grandon; and Chief According to Senate Ad- subject to prior Senate ap- the positions. like they just don’t even care Justice, filled by junior PPP visor Dustin Lewis, the prec- proval but must be reported “They came to me with the that a Constitution exists, like major Andrew Geraghty. edent was established by for- to the Senate.” list and said, ‘Any of these they just forget that it ex- The Director of Commu- mer executives. Temporary This language is contra- interest you?’ I told them the ists and kind of do their own nications operates the SGA positions that have been es- dicted by Article III, Section Director of Finance is up thing,” he added. social media, along with creat- tablished include a student 8, which reads: “The Senate my alley, and I could actually ing and distributing the SGA rights representative, a stu- will approve or not approve make an impact and help out Continues on Weekly that is sent out every dent conduct liaison and a stu- all student appointments and there,” Grandon said. Monday. The Director of Fi- dent director of diversity — nominations proposed by the Former senator Ryan page 2 nance deals with the SGA all of which have since been Association President.” Sev- Machesky, who worked on the In this issue... Campus, Page 3 World, Page 5 Sports, Page 8 A&E, Page 11 New scholarship for The United States has After a tough tourna- 6WDႇZULWHUVUDQNWKH LGBT+ students is witnessed a recent rise PHQWPHQ¶VEDVNHW- most malicious Disney WKH¿UVWRILWVNLQGDWD in hate crimes against ball anticipates the re- villains and the most Jesuit institution. Asian-Americans. turn of Nate Johnson. courageous heroes. 2 March 18, 2021 Campus News xaviernewswire.com SGA executives strive for change “Mickey is the SGA presi- more contentious issue among meaning there have been 11 for transgender people. “I definitely think that we dent, who’s one of the people the Senate, would allow the total appointees to the Senate “I just raised my hand and have some great potential, but who worked on the Consti- executives to introduce new by the executives. asked Lori Lambert, ‘Have it’s being simmered. That can tution, and yet she is the one legislation directly to the Sen- Salazar noted that when you ever once had a complaint be the fault of the senators who basically just violated the ate. filling these vacancies not about how the current hous- themselves, but it’s also on the Constitution by adding these As it stands, only senators enough people applied for the ing system works for trans- execs, who are supposed to positions without actually can propose new business on positions, which forced the ex- gender students? She told us, help us see clearly how to fin- adding them into the Consti- which SGA can vote. When ecutives to reach out to their ‘No, we’ve never had a com- ish in a move those initiatives tution,” former senator Fer- proposed, the amendment own contacts. plaint.’ And I said, ‘So why are forward,” Williams said. nando Arguello, a supporter was met with some resistance “It’s not like we chose peo- we talking about this, then? As the semester goes on, of the proposed amendments from the Senate, according to ple we knew over someone else Let’s talk about relevant is- the executives intend to in- last year, stated. “What was Senator Evan Nash. who applied. We just didn’t sues on our campus. Let’s get troduce more changes to the the point in even trying to “It goes in the complete op- have enough people who ap- the Caf open later instead of constitution in smaller parts, make a new Constitution if posite of the changes some of plied. So we had to take who worrying about something as opposed to one large piece you’re going to create the po- us want to see,” Nash said. He we could find, we had to fill that’s just a popular social is- of legislation, a tactic which sitions anyway?” noted that he also researched the vacancies,” Salazar said. sue.” has failed two years in a row. In the eyes of another sena- the constitutions of other According to Townsend, This culture has led to a SGA meetings are open to tor, the positions have demon- universities’ student govern- one change that can be made high turnover rate of sena- the public and students are strated their merits.

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