The Carolinian [February 12, 2008]

              Feb. 12- Feb. 18,2008
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Student government with big ideas
Bryant discusses advising, the health center, and more in the State of Campus address
John Bryant, SGA president, gives two thumbs up for campus improvement.
Uli Johnson
Staff Writer
The State of the Campus ad-dress
on Feb. 5 discussed accom-plishments
and works in prog-ress
for the Student Government
Association.
Last semester the SGA asked
the bookstore to put ISBN num-bers,
editions and pictures of
textbooks on the bookstore web-site,
in order to help students lo-cate
textbooks at other locations
and in the end, save money. They
also asked the library to extend
their hours; that extension began
this spring, with the library be-ing
open"24 ftburs a day, Sunday
through Thursday. Currently the
SGA is trying to enable direct
depositing of refund checks into
student checking accounts.
"We are more prepared this se-mester
to do what is needed for
the students," said John Bryant,
president of the SGA.
The SGA is also working on
reforming our advising system,
something that seems to be a
problem for many students.
"All students should have the
ability to graduate in four years if
they so choose," Bryant said, con-tinuing
that no one should have
to say that they were unable to ac-complish
this goal because of an
advisor. Bryant has been asking
SGAs in the UNC system for ad-vice
on how to better our advis-ing
system.
Beginning last semester, the
SGA has also been working more'
heavily on increasing safety on
campus. The university police
department presented at the SGA
meeting and discussed their new
canine, Aja, who will help keep
drugs and weapons off campus.
Safety walks have been planned
with police and students to dis-cover
places where students feel
most vulnerable on the campus.
Bryant's goal was dear:
"I want any student to walk
anywhere on this campus and feel
as safe as I feel when I walk [It]."
Another large issue the SGA is
undertaking is the health center.
Concerns brought to their atten-tion
include anything from not
feeling welcome in the health
center to being turned away be-cause
it was closing within the
hour. Bryant plans on asking
SGAs from other schools about
how they have handled issues
with their health center.
Another goal Bryant said he
wishes to accomplish this semes-ter
is to get students registered to
vote in the November election.
Bryant discussed how if everyone
on the campus was registered, our
voice could really be heard in the
November election.
Bryant encouraged students to
participate in the upcoming SGA
election. During the speech, Bry-ant
urged the audience to talk
to people they knew to let them
know that the election is coming,
and said he hopes to have great
candidates for the election.
The biggest item of discussion
was saved for last: the resignation
of Chancellor Sullivan. Bryant has
been asked to help in the search
for a new chancellor, an endeav-or
in which he never thought he
would have the opportunity to be
involved.
SEE IDEAS ON PAGE 18
Conference educates on importance of diversity
Rebekah Cansler
Staff Writer
"Diversity used to be an Af-firmative
Action problem, but
the definition is evolving today,"
said Micheline Calhoub-Deville,
chair of the Access and Equity
Committee of the UNCG School
of Education. The group hosted
"The Evolving Meaning of Diver-sity:
Access, Equity, and Activism
in the New Century" conference.
Saturday, Feb. 9, the Science
Building's large lecture hall was
almost completely filled. People
came from the UNCG commu-nity
as well as surrounding col-leges
and high schools. The high
number of students and faculty
who were in attendance heart-ened
Calhoub-Deville.
"It's wonderful to see people
energized by the issues," said
Calhoub-Deville.
This conference was created to
get people thinking about diversi-ty.
Ms. Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta,
the first keynote speaker of the
day, paraphrased it perfectly.
"We must be in unity about di-versity,"
Ndong-Jatta explained.
"Nothing is going to happen un-til
we come to a united decision
about the definition and what
course of action we should take."
The creation narrative was
Ndong-Jatta's leading subject.
She told the room she would start
at the beginning.
"Man was the first draft," said
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The 'Evolving Meaning of Diversity" attracts a large crowd, nearly filling the Science
auditorium completely.
REBEKAH CANSLER/THE CAROLINIAN
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