Student Government Senate continued its letter writing campaign and discussed budget cuts at its weekly meeting Wednesday.
Much has been made of SG’s attempts to discuss budget cuts with Gov. Bobby Jindal face-to-face. SG President J Hudson and Vice President Dani Borel got their chance Tuesday when they met with Jindal at the Governor’s Mansion.
Borel acknowledged to The Daily Reveille outside of the Senate meeting that she asked Jindal to sign a copy of Monday’s Daily Reveille that featured a picture of her, Hudson and Jindal at Abundant Life Church in Denham Springs when the three of them first met.
Borel said although Jindal is under fire from many in the University community regarding budget cuts, she still respects him as a political figure.
“I think Jindal is a good politician. I think he’s done some great things,” Borel said. “I don’t think that’s necessarily the case for higher education.”
Borel said though she doesn’t approve of his handling of budget cuts, the opportunity to get the governor’s autograph was too much to pass up.
“It doesn’t mean he’s a man I don’t admire,” Borel said. “I mean, it’s not every day you get to meet the governor.”
Hudson spoke to the Senate on Wednesday about his recent meeting with Jindal and the governor’s tentative agreement to come to speak at a forum at the University next semester.
“It will be interesting to see if he comes to our higher education institution,” Hudson said. “In the meantime we’re going to be laying low focusing on our letter writing campaign.”
Manship School of Mass Communication Sen. Zac Lemoine acknowledged he was one of the people responsible for the “WhatNow Lsu” event last week.
“It’s something that a couple of us who just happened to be in Student Government thought we should do,” Lemoine said.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences Sen. David Jones asked what the event has brought about.
“I just have one question after ‘WhatNow Lsu,’ which is, ‘What now?'” Jones said.
Lemoine told Jones that the Flagship Advocates student group was founded by the event and that more than 300 letters were collected there.
Lemoine said he had not heard any response from House of Representatives Speaker Jim Tucker after he said more than 300 e-mails were sent by students at the event.
SG Senate also voted Wednesday to approve Stuart Peterson to the Programming Support and Initiatives Fund Committee.
It also voted to postpone a resolution to urge and request Academic Affairs to prohibit the assignment of graded work during the concentrated study period, also known as dead week, because a meeting with a representative from the Faculty Senate was still in the works.
 
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