ASUI President Nicole Skinner updated the Senate on her participation in last night’s survey of campus facilities. Skinner walked a route with over 20 stopping points on campus in collaboration with other community members in consultation with the Virtuvian Planning firm. Throughout the walk groups marked areas where they believed safety alterations could be made through addition of lighting or other alterations.
Clayton King, ASUI lobbyist, said the legislative report card should be ready to roll out by the end of October in time for midterm elections. Nearly all higher education legislation has been graded by University presidents across the state, King said.Applications have opened for the newly formed ASUI volunteer philanthropy board. The eight-seat board will work on outreach and other tasks for the upcoming VandalThon, which was formerly a dance marathon event in support of Shriner’s Children Hospital.
Zack Lamkey, marketing and special events chair for Vandal Entertainment, presented on the upcoming drag show “I Slay Cabaret” Friday Oct 12.
The event will feature runner up of RuPaul’s Drag Rag season two as well as local performers. The event is free with VandalCard.
Director of Health and Wellness for ASUI, Dasyre Sires, gave an update on the new Vandal Health Coalition. The program has been revamped into three working systems: mental health, overall wellbeing and a marijuana working group in aims of providing students with information, much like alcohol awareness events that take place on campus.
Health and wellness staff created the three systems based on what they felt were the most important issues to look at this time, Sires told the senate.
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