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August 22, 2013
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ASUNM elected Tyler Crawley as the president pro tempore at its emergency senate meeting Wednesday night. Crawley is one of six returning senators to ASUNM and has previously served as the group’s finance chair. Crawley defeated Sen. Grace Liu for the position but the vote tally was not released. The ASUNM president pro tempore is third in command behind the president and vice president of ASUNM. Duties for president pro tempore include acting as a liaison with the faculty senate, leading community service outreach for ASUNM senators and acts as a “nonvoting member of all service committees,” according to Crawley. “Personally, I want to work with Vice President (Brandon) Myers to act as a leader of the senate and to alleviate the learning curve as much as possible,” Crawley said. “We have six returners and 14 new people. The first semester always acts as a learning curve. We want to make it to where senators can get in what they came to do, the platforms they ran on.” Crawley said this task involves attending various committee meetings as well as helping senators familiarize themselves with the rulebook and constitution. “The president pro tempore is sort of the elder senator, the highest ranking leadership role next to vice president,” Crawley said. “I want to help the vice president with whatever he needs.” Liu in her candidacy hoped for a more united ASUNM. “As a group that works together that does so much for the university, we need to have a good sense of who we are individually have a group identity, as well,” Liu said. The meeting also served to pass Standing Resolution 1F, which outlines ASUNM responsibilities, meeting times and rules and regulations that needed attention before committee meetings could commence. An amendment was made to the resolution requiring that meetings of the ASUNM Senate be held at 6:30 p.m., rather than 6 p.m. The group also discussed the new outreach hour requirement for ASUNM members. Senators are now required to do one additional hour of outreach in which they are visible to the student body, whether by visiting student organizations or by maintaining a campus presence in some other way. “Students can be looking out for senators during outreach hours and, if they have any questions, let us know,” said Sen. Liliana Benitez De Luna.
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Matthew Brown / Daily Lobo Members of the Steering and Rules Committee of the Associate Students of the University of New Mexico discuss their meeting’s agenda at the first meeting of the semester Wednesday night. Unlike usual ASUNM meetings, the members of the committee wore 1980s-themed clothing. Members said they decided to have a themed meeting because they said they like having fun. One of the members dressed up as his interpretation of Marty McFly, the protagonist of the “Back to the Future” trilogy. During the meeting, the committee unanimously elected ASUNM Senator Jenna Hagengruber as its vice-chair. The committee also passed a resolution promoting UNM’s Green Fund which is slated to be used for campus sustainability initiatives.
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A new vice-chair comes to one of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico’s senate committees as it gears up for the fall semester. ASUNM’s Finance Committee elected Sen. Colt Balok as the committee’s vicechair at its first meeting of the semester Wednesday night. The six senators on the committee elected Balok unanimously. He will serve as vice-chair until the end of the fall semester. Balok said he is thrilled with his new seat in the committee. “This is going to be a great year,” he said. “I’m excited. We’re going to have lots of fun, and we’re going to have lots done to benefit undergraduate students of UNM.” A sophomore at UNM, Balok won a seat in the ASUNM senate in last year’s fall semester elections. He was the only independent candidate to win in that semester’s elections. Balok said he plans to work closely with his fellow senators and committee members. “My plan is to work with the newly elected senators,” he said. “I’m really going to work with the senators at the Finance Committee and help them with the learning curve with whatever they need so they can be the best senators.”
ASUNM Sen. Rachel Williams, who was elected to ASUNM and appointed as chair of the Finance Committee last fall semester, said she is optimistic about working with Balok in her committee this semester. She said she will try to make the Finance Committee a more legitimate body at UNM.
“We’re going to have lots of fun, and we’re going to have lots done to benefit undergraduate students of UNM.” ~Colt Balok ASUNM Finance Committee vice-chair “When I was an Emerging Lobo Leader, I just looked at the Finance (Committee) chair with such high regard,” she said. “Every single week, they were in front of a student organization. They really know the ins and outs of ASUNM. Now sitting on that position, I’m hoping that I’m setting up a precedent.” Williams said she aims to increase the
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committee’s public presence this semester and to become more transparent with student organizations in terms of its budget appropriations. “I want the appropriations projected on the screen so that student organizations can actually see what’s happening,” she said. “They’re hearing us make all these motions, but it’s really arbitrary. Hopefully it will make it all more transparent. That’s really the goal of the Finance Committee this semester.” ASUNM will hear student organizations’ budget appropriation requests on Sept. 21 and 22, Williams said. Organizations have until Sept. 11 to submit their budget appropriation requests, she said. Williams said she advises organizations to make sure they research the requirements for requests to ensure their requests are up to standards before the hearings start in September. “We’re here for them,” she said. “We’ll do whatever we can to help them, but we hope that it’s kind of a two-way street. I hope they understand that we have restrictions and we have a tight budget.” Still, Williams said she is optimistic about the Finance Committee for this semester. “The student organizations will come in, and they won’t leave feeling discouraged,” she said. “I think it’s going to be a much more positive for student organizations this semester.”
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