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Reggie Bates, then Student Association vice presidential candidate, talks to students April 25 in the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons. The SA Senate held a closed session meeting Sunday to discuss Bates’ impeachment.
SA VP to face impeachment Northern Star staff
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Redshirt senior wing Chuks Iroegbu leaps for a lay-up Friday in a game against Cal State Northridge. The Huskies won 83-71 to start the NIU Showcase and won their next two games this weekend. See more photos from the showcase on Page 11.
Senate held a closed hearing Sunday to discuss the impeachment of SA Vice President Reggie Bates. SA Senate Speaker Dillon Domke confirmed the purpose of the meeting, but declined to say why Bates faces impeachment. Bates was elected under the Voice of Change ticket, which included President Nathan Lupstein, Treasurer Marc Calvey and Student Trustee Raquel Chavez. He received 1,802 votes against 507 votes from opponent Robert Kreml, now SA Senate deputy speaker. The process of removal begins with a petition for removal by a minimum of seven senators at an SA Senate meeting, charging but not removing the individual, according to the SA Constitution. The charged official will then be notified and told the date of the hearing, which shall
was delivered to the SA Senate, according to the SA Constitution. If convicted with a two-thirds vote by the SA Senate, the charged official should be removed from office and notified by next day post, according to the SA Constitution. Appropriate reasons for removal include academic misconduct, financial misconduct, neglect of duty, abuse of privileges of office, criminal behavior and failure to keep accurate records, according to the SA Constitution. The hearing was held after the conclusion of the SA Senate’s meeting Sunday night. Details of the hearing will not be disclosed to the public, but a news release on the hearing will be distributed today, Domke said. Bates did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Student starts Saudi Arabian research journal Satta Kendor Staff writer
DeKalb | The first ever Saudi Arabian instructional and technology research journal, launched by an NIU student, is currently accepting submissions for its January 2016 publication. Adel Qahmash, NIU doctoral candidate for Instructional Technology, founded The Saudi Journal of Educational Technology, a quarterly online journal accredited by the Saudi Adel Qahmash Arabia Ministry Doctoral candidate of Culture and Information on Aug. 1. It specializes in peer-reviewed studies and reviews articles that are
related to technology integration and educational computing and research, according to its website. The first volume was published Aug. 1, and submissions for the second volume will be accepted until Nov. 30, Qahmash said. The idea for the journal came to Qahmash while he was working on his doctoral dissertation on how teachers in Saudi Arabia can help special education students learn through technology. There are only a few journals in his country that focus on education, but nothing that focuses on instructional and technology research, and so it was difficult to find research and articles within an Arabic context, Qahmash said. “So I said, ‘Why don’t we have our own journal ... [and] contribute
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to the educational technology field, and I’m sure there’s many people back home [that] want to write research papers and get published and add knowledge to the literature about our field,’” Qahmash said.
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I’m very proud of him. I think this is a wonderful opportunity for us, but also for him because this is a chance that we can build a strong community with Saudi Arabia.” Wei-Chen Hung Educational Technology, Research and Assessment Chair
The Saudi Arabian government is financing Qahmash’s education because they want the best teachers for
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their citizens, said Russell O’Brien, doctorate candidate in instructional technology. O’Brien said he has known Qahmash since January 2013. “When I first heard about this, I thought, you know, this is something that should be [given] recognition,” O’Brien said. “I felt that it was a very unusual thing for somebody to have the vision and, you know, put forth the effort to create the first journal for their country, and that’s something that is very admirable.” Research is done by people, like Qahmash, who are very devoted to the instructional technology field of study, O’Brien said. “This is a wonderful thing [to] happen for him,” O’Brien said. “We train people to become a researcher,
and having a recognition in the research and to be able to become a founder of the journal, I think this is a testament of the department,” said Wei-Chen Hung, department chair of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment. Hung talked with Qahmash about the process of getting a journal approved and Qahmash was very determined to make it happen, Hung said. “I am very proud of him. I think this is a wonderful opportunity for us, but also for him because this is a chance that we can build a strong community with Saudi Arabia,” Hung said. Go to sjetra.org to find out more about the Saudi Journal of Educational Technology research and to submit manuscripts.
Volleyball MAC tourney bound
The Huskies won the regular-season championship this weekend in two bouts against Western Michigan and Bowling Green. NIU will move on to the MAC Tournament Saturday in Athens, Ohio. Read more on Page 12.