SA passes bill to make DPS focus groups permanent
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SA also unanimously passed a bill providing the president, vice president and comptroller $2,500 stipends each for their work in the organization.
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Student Association unanimously passed a bill Monday to make its Department of Public Safety focus groups a permanent initiative.
SA Chief of Staff Kailee Vick introduced the bill. It’s important that students have an opportunity to provide feedback about the department and its role on campus, they said.
“We really wanted to make it a permanent initiative and make this a recurring thing because we think it’s really important for students to be able to have a platform where they can really just voice their concerns with the department and then have that stage to be able to then have actionable change come out of that,” Vick said.
SA tables resolution condemning anti-Semitism over concerns with definition
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Student Association indefinitely tabled a resolution condemning anti-Semitism on Monday because several members expressed concerns over the bill’s definition of anti-Semitism.
The bill, which assembly member Noah Wagner introduced last Monday, would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism within SA. Members of SA, including President Justine Hastings, were concerned that the bill’s language equated anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism, or opposition to the Jewish movement for self-determination in Israel.
“Due to the widespread critique and the wording used by the IHRA and its implications on limiting academic freedom, and potentially doing harm to Palestinians and questions of Palestinian human rights, I personally did not feel it was SA’s place to endorse this definit