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Red Cross to hold blood drive next week JAMIE TEIXEIRA the collegian
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tudents and faculty can line up next week to donate blood through the Red Cross blood drive. According to Jan Hale, external communications manager for the Red Cross, the drive held at K-State is going to be one of the largest in the state. “This is the largest blood drive that the the Red Cross holds in Kansas,” Hale said. “We’re trying to collect 700 pints of blood over four days. It is taking a lot of different groups at K-State to help us pull it off.” The blood collected at this donation will contribute to medical needs such as helping mothers after complications during childbirth, trauma victims and surgeries. “We never know what the need is, but we do know that every two seconds, someone needs blood,” Hale said. The first drive at K-State happened a few years ago, and since then the Red Cross and K-State have partnered to save lives, according to Hale. “K-State’s always been very supportive of the Red Cross, and it’s just one way to really show the Wildcats giving spirit and what the students want to do to be contributing members of their community.” For the person that might be
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Kylie Huneycutt, sophomore in psychology and elementary education, prepares to give blood at the blood drive in the Student Union on March 31, 2014. scared of needles, Hale said she wants them to remember that donating could save someones life and they are not alone. “I always like to remind people that most of us that donate don’t wake up in the morning and say, ‘Oh, golly-gee, yippee, I get to have a needle stuck in my arm,’” Hale said. “It’s like a pinch in your arm, but you’re giving someone something that no one else can give them. It is the ultimate paying it forward because
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The K-State Student Governing Association senators voted to “call for transparency” from the K-State administration in the campus security plan at their meeting Thursday. The resolution passed 29-25, but has yet to be signed by Andy Hurtig, student body president and senior in accounting. The purpose of the resolution is to call for the university administration to publicly announce their plans for how to comply with a 2013 Kansas law concerning gun control. The law, HB 2052, includes several safety requirements for universities that choose to remain gunfree zones. The SGA resolution requests a briefing by a K-State official about the university’s plans to implement adequate security measures and their impact on students. It also requests a public statement from the Office of the President concerning the plan’s general provisions, anticipated costs, possible funding options and a general timeline for implementation. Michael Reichenberger, graduate student in nuclear engineering, was one of the bill’s authors and debated his reasoning behind the bill. “It only makes sense to me that there should be a plan in place to implement these ‘adequate security measures,’” Reichenberger said. “And if that’s the case, and I hope it is, then I believe that we as representatives of the student body and the greater student body as a whole, and the faculty, and the community members of Manhattan should know how those ‘adequate security measures’ are going to be implemented and how that’s going to affect not only the cost of attending K-State, but more importantly in my opinion is the day to day life of students on campus.
On this day in 1957, all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated for the first time. Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine black students entered. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration. history.com
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The Wildcat volleyball team will look to get back in the win column when they host the Baylor Bears Saturday night in Ahearn Field House at 7 p.m. K-State is 8-5 on the season and 0-1 in Big 12 play. The Bears have looked very impressive in their first 13 matches of the season as they are 11-2 in the young campaign. The Bears had the first round of Big 12 games off, so this will be their first taste of conference play this year. K-State is coming off a three sets to one loss at Kansas Wednesday night in Lawrence. “We knew that (KU was) very terminal in regards to their side-out offense,” head coach Suzie Fritz said. “We needed to extend out long rallies, which I feel like we did, but then we have to win long rallies. I didn’t think we were clean enough in the long points. Those are big momentum plays, and I don’t think we won enough of them.” The two teams were neck and neck throughout the entire match, but the Jayhawks won some crucial points late to remain undefeated at 13-0. “No teams are ever even, we are better in some areas and they are better in some areas,” Fritz said after the
match. “It’s the areas that matter the most that win you the match. I think we served and dug well tonight and we felt like those were two important factors to be in the match.” Kansas State has been led by junior outside hitter Brooke Sassin, who had 15 kills on Wednesday night on 64 swings. “She’s kind of our stabilizer,” Fritz explained. “She is doing such an amazing job by attacking with purpose, which is hard to do against a big physical team.” Redshirt junior setter Katie Brand recorded her ninth double-double on Wednesday night as she had 42 assists and 11 digs. That ties her with her teammate, Sassin, for the Big 12 lead. The loss to Kansas was the fourth consecutive Big 12 opener loss for the Wildcats, but now they turn their eyes to a good Baylor team. Don’t be surprised if this match between the Wildcats and Bears goes the distance. Last season in the two match-ups between these teams, both matches went to five sets with each team winning on the road. “Stay the course and continue to be invested in the process of growth,” Fritz said to her team after the match. “If we just continue to improve than the wins will also come with that. We are doing a lot of things well and we need to keep continuing to build on those strengths.” Rodney Dimick | THE COLLEGIAN
Junior setter Katie Brand bumps the ball during the match against K Wednesday at Horejsi Center in Lawrence, Kansas. The Wildcats lost to the Jayhawks 3-1.
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you know you’ll probably never meet the person who’s receiving your donation.” Hale advises that those interested in donating blood should start drink lots of water and a good meal for lunch and breakfast. The drive will be held Sept. 28 through Oct. 2. Locations of the blood drive on-campus are as follows: Monday through Thursday, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.:
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K-State students cozy up homes with fall decorations DANIELLE COOK the collegian
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hen cool crisp air finally settles in after a long, hot summer and the green begins to fade from September trees, turning the leaves into hues of gold and crimson, autumn has arrived in Manhattan. Along with its blustery days and spiced Starbucks drinks, autumn brings daydreams of never ever leaving the comfort of one’s home again, left in peace for the rest of the season to lounge around in large sweaters with so much time and so little to do. This fall, like many others before it, is likely to supply many much-needed days spent snuggled up at home, so some K-State students plan to decorate their living spaces in the spirit of the season, with comfortable favorites and fresh do-it-yourself projects. Abby Webb, sophomore in theater, said she enjoys visiting pumpkin patches and being outdoors during autumn. However, she said that one of her favorite fall activities is cozying up with “cold” Halloween movies by Tim Burton in her apartment, and she plans to decorate for comfy nights in fall with
classic candles. “I like the smell, and they just make everything feel warmer and cozier,” Webb said. Apple cinnamon, I think, is my favorite (fall candle scent) because it’s just what my mom always used growing up.” Webb said Pinterest is a good place to find low-budget decoration ideas for the upcoming season, and also said bringing in some of fall’s most basic aspects, such as pumpkins and red and orange-colored pieces, is a surefire way to cozy up any home. “Pinterest is great for a lot of DIY stuff,” Webb said. “Take old things you have, and kind of make them new.” According to Deneisha Abercrombie, sophomore in animal sciences and industry, choosing colors is key when decorating for autumn. Along with buying or making additional pillows and blankets to cuddle up with, choosing or creating pieces using colors found in autumnal nature is one of the simplest ways to achieve the desired seasonal vibe, even while living on a budget in the residence halls. “I could put more blankets and more pillows in, and put up more orange and more brown versus the yellows and blues that I have in there now,” Abercrombie said. “Orange and brown are fall-ish colors.
NEVER SEEN IT: A novice’s review of ‘Rocky’ by Jonathan Greig
HHH Continuing this review series of iconic films from someone who has never seen them, or really knows anything about movies in general, is the 1976 classic “Rocky.” Let’s keep it simple, for my own sake, and do a best and worst list.
Worst use of time: Taking out Rocky’s mouthguard for him to talk to you. He honestly sounds about the same with or without it. That’s a Stallone voice joke, everyone. Bet you’ve never heard one of those before. Oh yeah, we’re off and rolling. Best early movie
They’re very warm and toasty, and it provides that warm and comforting feeling, whereas blue is sunny.” Taylor Cowell, freshman in open option, said it could be challenging to decorate her residence hall room this year, but photos of favorite memories and some seasonal scrapbook paper can be an easy autumn dress-up for any space. “What I do is I try to incorporate the fall colors into my room, and one way I can do that is using scrapbook paper,” Cowell said. “I’ll pick out some cute ones with leaves and fall colors, and then I’ll put some pictures on those and hang them up for a cute decoration.” Besides bringing in fall colors, Cowell said baking or cooking with fall foods, such as apples and pumpkins, or even just having them around at home can bring the beauty of autumn inside. “I’m really excited for apple season for fall- that always comes with it,” Cowell said. “I’m really excited to carve pumpkins, too, if I get the chance.” While the weather outside may turn chilly and gray when autumn comes around, K-State students continue to find ways, each year, to warm up their homes and enjoy the season’s underlying vibrance with creative and finance-friendly decorations.
burn: “Did you get the license plate number?” “Of, what?” “Of the truck that ran over your face!” I’m excited for this movie if it’s going to have a bunch of true city insults. Best way to ask someone to do literally anything: “…Do you believe that America is the land of opportunity?” Worst realization: Oh, he trains with raw eggs. I knew my egg McMuffin workout wasn’t going near as well. I really should get around to watching these iconic movies sooner so this kind of stuff doesn’t happen. Best montage: I mean, we all know it’s the classic montage, but I never knew how incredibly funny the lyrics to it were. The lyrics are literally just singing things like “working hard now!” and “getting strong now!” Worst exclusion: More boxing. I know this movie is all about the journey, and that’s fine, but there’s literally only two boxing matches the entire movie – at the very beginning when he goes ape-man on some fellow scrub, and the main event at the end. Best realization: As odd as this “novelty” movie fight is, it’s not too far from how weird and crazy some actual fights I’ve seen have been. When you think about what it actually is, and see all the strange pomps and quirks of boxing, it is just a truly, truly ridiculous institution. In both good and bad ways. Best movie set in Philadelphia I’ve seen this week: “Rocky.” The movie conveyed humor, frustration, vulnerability, triumph and really moved through the story well. It also developed the secondary characters more than I thought it would, included some classic images and was generally enjoyable. I give it three stars, only because now the damn montage song is stuck in my head. Da-dadun. Duh-da-duuun.
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Campus resources helpful in post-graduation life
COURTNEY BURKE the collegian
Dozens of students headed off to the career fair this week, and for many it was one more step toward their end goal - graduation. Graduation seems simple enough, but it’s much harder than walking across a stage and shaking hands. That one piece of paper is something students have been working toward for nearly two decades, if not longer, and once you have it you have to find a way to use it. Easier said than done, right? Just ask students who have been schmoozing, interviewing and handing out resumes and references like they’re candy this week. Finding a job for post-graduation life can be difficult, but there’s some great resources available on and off campus to students and recent graduates. “Utilize the resources that are available while you are still on campus,” Jared Meitler, coordinator for the Academic and Career Information Center, said. “Career and Employment Services, the Academic and Career Information Center, and Powercat Financial Counseling are a small sample of
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Illustration by Kent Willmeth the tremendous, and free, resources at your disposal.” CES is located in Holtz Hall and helps students prepare for and find career fairs, tweak resumes, find job listings and internships and gives interview tricks and tips. PFC offers students important financial education on how to budget, save, avoid identity theft and manage student loans and debt. ACIC assists students with everything from find-
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It is a common practice in our society nowadays to see people throw their leftover food in the trash. Is this a foolish practice that we may regret in the future? How could we possibly know? The methods of science can allow us to think critically and discover the consequences of many of our actions before we let problems get out of control like they have many times in our history. Our local culture has been greatly affected by the ecological response to the American settlers' plowing and tilling of the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl was a disastrous event that clearly showed that what was considered standard practice at the time significantly reduced the fertility of the land by eroding much of the topsoil away. The top layer of the soil is the most fertile part with the highest amount of organic matter and diversity of life. Our yields on our farms would be much higher now had we not tilled the Great Plains so much. Food waste is a very serious issue that has recently been getting more national attention. On Sept. 16, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced a goal to cut the amount of food that Americans waste by 50 percent by 2030. This is extremely vital, because according to the Natural Resources Defense Council's 2012 Issue Paper, "Getting food from the farm to
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an interview. “Be well prepared with information about the company and industry before you interview,” Keller said. “Be ready to describe your experience during an interview using the STAR method; describe a situation, tasks involved, action you took and the results of your efforts.” If you want these companies to hire you, you have to know what makes you stand out based on what they need from an employee. Confidence is key. If you don’t think you’re good enough then why should someone hiring? If things aren’t going exactly how you planned, don’t give up. Susan Tompor, USA Today author of “How do you land that job after college,” said that “it can be too easy to stop looking, especially if you don’t have success in the first few months after graduating from college. But the hiring picture is ever changing, and jobs open up all the time. Be willing to stretch, and have some hope that you ultimately will find a real job.” Whether you’re a freshman, a senior, or anywhere in between, go out into the world knowing that you will figure out your post-graduation plans, and that you don’t have to do it alone. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of The Collegian.
Courtney Burke is a senior in mass communications. Please send comments to opinion@ kstatecollegian.com.
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Classless. This is the first word that popped into my head when I walked out of my class at the Leadership Studies Building yesterday and saw in big writing a message that told Planned Parenthood to go “fund” itself. For most people who saw the writing, I believe the message and rude meaning was clear. Then today as I read The Collegian I found out it was the College Republicans group responsible for the chalking. I wasn’t shocked really, but disappointed that this organization chose to spread their hateful message in such a way. When this message was plastered on campus, the attack was clear on Planned Parenthood and women’s health. This organization has stood for women’s health and well-being for over 100 years, and now with the heavily edited videos that surfaced recently they are in real danger. They are in danger to lose the opportunity to provide health care for women all across the country who may otherwise not have access. According to a Kansas City Star article published yesterday, they reemphasized the important fact that abortions only account for 3 percent of the important work Planned Parenthood does all across our country. Defunding this organization and emphasizing and praising this attempt by an organization on our campus is discouraging. Seeing the College Republicans at Kansas State University go around and plaster this message is something that is dangerous and careless for any organization here on campus. To leave you, I want you to really read the words of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and think hard about what she is saying: “Do you have any idea what year it is? Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s? Or the 1890s? Should we call for a doctor? Because I simply cannot believe that in the year 2015, the United States Senate would be spending its time trying to defund women’s healthcare centers.”
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ing the right major to developing career opportunities. All of these are great services to access and students walk right past them every day without realizing it. It’s really easy to think you have it all under control or that you don’t need help yet, but before you know it you’re graduating and regretting not asking these experienced people for their help. “The CES Account may be
one of the best kept secrets on our campus,” Meitler said. “It is user friendly, offers customization and is the gateway to hundreds of part-time and full-time internships and jobs that are targeted towards K-State students.” According to the CES webpage, a CES account can be created for free by students and is a place to search for jobs, post resumes and find contact information for hundreds of companies and recruiters. Kerri Keller, executive director of CES, said that it is never too early or too late to utilize these resources. Recently graduated students can still use CES for up to one year after graduation, which gives them access to a job database, resume and interview advice, a list of potential alumni connections and freshmen can get a jump on competition by building up their resumes with internships and parttime jobs. “Internships are increasingly important for gaining marketable experience, testing out career options, developing a professional network and getting a step in the door to full-time employment,” Keller said. “As a freshman, get involved with student organizations, service learning, research and other opportunities for demonstrating your potential for an internship as a sophomore or junior.” While all of these resources are wonderful places to get help from, in the end it is up to you and you alone to make yourself hirable. Be professional and confident and do your homework before going into
our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten ... Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year, ... uneaten food ends up rotting in landfills as the single largest component of U.S. municipal solid waste where it accounts for a large portion of U.S. methane emissions. Reducing food losses by just 15 percent would be enough food to feed more than 25 million Americans every year at a time when one in six Americans lack a secure supply of food to their tables." It is a shame to let the energy and resources that went into creating our food products get wasted and not provide nutrition for people. It is an even bigger shame to then ship the food to the landfill and seal up the valuable nutrients along with the rest of our trash. Food decomposes very slowly and without oxygen in the landfill, releasing methane over time. Methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas that can also be used for fuel if it is captured and stored. Landfill operators will do an economic analysis to see if the money they can make from capturing the methane will be worth the cost of installing the equipment necessary to capture the leaking methane. If it will not be profitable, we let the methane leak into the atmosphere instead of using it to power our societies. But it's not just that. According to the Washington Post, "The environmental cost of food waste goes further than just methane emissions. Producing food is a costly affair for the environment—an estimated one third of global carbon emissions come from agriculture—but it's one society pays to feed itself." We simply can't afford such large waste
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from this huge source of environmental stress. Sending the food to the landfills also disrupts the nutrient cycles of our planet that we rely on for our survival. Most kids learn in school that plants photosynthesize by absorbing carbon dioxide in through the leaves, pulling nutrients along with water from the soil through the roots and using the energy of the sunlight to create sugars and other complex molecules from these essential components. The plants get all of their nutrients except carbon from the soil and each unique plant species absorbs the nutrients differently. In nature, the plants decompose locally and return their nutrients back to the soil. Humans, however, have disrupted these nutrient cycles as we have urbanized unwisely and strug-
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“I definitely say something I’d like to accomplish is, create a business that is successful, and I currently have like a coffee business, so I’d love to see that actually become a thing and own a business, ‘cuz that’d be baller”
“To be in interior architecture and design the inside of a cruise ship.”
“To be happy. You know, to be set in my career, be happy with my life and the people around me and everything.”
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gled to find the best way to make our food system secure and profitable. We are pulling the nutrients from the soil of our best agricultural fields just to eventually ship a large fraction of them to landfills. Nature’s way of recycling nutrients locally has been destroyed. If we teach kids the basics of how plants work in our schools, why have the adults in our society not applied this knowledge and seriously worked to eliminated these problems in our food system? How long will we continue to send food to the landfills and consider this a normal practice?
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Pumpkin spice is in everything from candles to being a flavor of coffee and bread. It has become an integral part of the fall season, so to help get started for fall, here’s a few unique pumpkin spice ideas: pumpkin spice cranberry cookies and pumpkin spice popcorn, as suggested by Food.com. According to a Forbes article entitled “How Starbucks Turned Pumpkin Spice Into A Marketing Bonanza,” the flavor of “pumpkin spice” is actually just a mixture of cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and cloves. This spice has now become a marketing tool in more than just coffee companies. According to a CNBC website entitled “5 key facts about pumpkin spice mania,” sales of pumpkin spice items have grown, while the volume of fresh pumpkins bought has actually been dropping since 2011, and it all started with Starbucks. With their creation of the pumpkin spice latte, their “most popular seasoned beverage of all time,” according to the Starbucks website, the idea of pumpkin spice products have grown. The pumpkin spice latte was created in 2003 and according to an article in Forbes magazine entitled, “Pumpkin Spice: the flavor that rules the fall,” pumpkin flavored foods on menus “have grown tenfold” and the “use of pumpkin as an ingredient in beverages alone has grown 130 percent since 2006.” With the growing trend over the years, it’s a wonder what made the spice and flavoring such a phenomena. However, according to the “Pumpkin Spice: the flavor that rules the fall,” article, 70 percent of pumpkin spice sales happen between September and November, which could mean that the flavor is simply a reminder of the fall season. While pumpkins seem to be a representation of the fall, the flavor actually has nothing to do with pumpkins except for the fact that it may help represent fall and what a pumpkin could potentially taste like. Regardless, the pumpkin spice flavor has proved itself to be a popular marketing tool, especially for Starbucks. According to their website, it the decade since it’s creation, there have been over 200 million pumpkin spice lattes sold. But, the marketing didn’t stop there; the pumpkin spice flavored things encompass things from hummus to Pringles. The trend is all over the market, like it or not. The popularity of pumpkin spice has created a unique flavor trend, which is why so many different markets may be trying to get a stake in the flavor.
RILEY COUNTY JAIL INMATE ESCAPES CUSTODY
After being granted work release privileges, an inmate held in Riley County Jail failed to return to jail. The inmate was confined with a warrant for probation violation, according to RCPD. RCPD has released no further details on the matter as of this time. However, au-
It was announced last week by president Kirk Schulz that K-State’s Salina campus could be renamed the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus, according to Little Apple Post. In order for this name change to take place, the proposal must first be approved by the Kansas Board of Regents. Schulz tweeted last Wednesday that the university has already initiated the renaming process with the Board of Regents and that more details on the matter are soon to come. Despite the fact that the name-changing process has already begun, residents
of the Salina area, K-State alumni and others, who oppose the renaming of the Salina campus, have started a petition with the intention to impact any decisions.
FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO SMALL FIRE AT THROCKMORTON HALL
Seventeen firefighters from Manhattan Fire Department responded to a small fire on the third floor of Throckmorton Hall Wednesday evening around 5:20 p.m., according to K-State Today. The fire, caused by seeds that ignited inside an oven during an experiment, led to minor damage to contents and equipment, but no structure damage, resulting in an estimated $4,000 total in damages. No injuries were reported due to this incident.
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Reichenberger also said the administration intends to maintain a gun-free campus, but no details have been given about how the university will comply with the law. “It really is important to the student body and to the Manhattan community and especially to faculty to understand what the university plans to do in order to maintain a gun-free campus, which is something that the university has stated in numerous areas of its policies,” Reichenberger said. “I have heard from numerous faculty members that if guns were allowed on campus ... that there would be essentially a mass exodus of faculty from campus.” Reichenberger said that one way to remain gun free is to place metal detectors at the entrance of every building on campus, which could affect students and faculty. “(Will) that mean that you have to leave for campus 30 minutes early in order to get through the security?” Reichenberger said. “I don’t know, and I want to know.” Hurtig said he has not decided whether or not he will sign the resolution. He shared the concerns of several senators that the resolution would come across too harsh and damage future discussions with the university administration. Athletic Director John Currie spoke to the senators about various aspects of the athletic department.
Topics included the Big 12 sportsmanship concerns, the Bill Snyder Family Stadium northeast corner expansion and the new women’s soccer facilities. Garrett Kays, senior in agricultural economics, shared a K-State Athletics presentation with the senators concerning justification for $500,000 of student privilege fee funding for the athletic department. The privilege fee committee is considering its options for the future of the funding. Legislation was introduced requesting that Manhattan city commission consider renewing the mandatory rental inspection program. SGA will also look at five funding requests before taking action at the next meeting. The groups requesting funds included Engineers Without Borders, the American Criminal Justice Association, the Institute of Management Accountants, Phi Beta Sigma and Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth. SGA commended Nicole Lane, senior in agricultural communications and journalism, for winning the Forrest Bassford Student Award. New SGA interns were sworn in. The Engineering Student Council is seeking amendments to its constitution. SGA must approve any constitution changes. SGA will also consider amendments to its own bylaws concerning quorum for standing committees.
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