At its second-to-last meeting of 2024, Shippensburg University’s Student Government Association (SGA) approved two new student groups and provided updates on 2025-26 budgets.
Vice President of Student Groups Ella Zinn introduced motions to approve the Biology Club and Dockside Magic the Gathering. Both were unanimously approved. SGA also approved an appendix to the Budget & Finance (B&F) Committee standing rules and added Matt Jones and Livi Rieck as B&F voting members.
Vice President of Finance Nathan Garber thanked student groups for submitting budget requests by the Oct. 31 deadline and said upcoming allocations, which are typically released in April, will start being reviewed soon.
During senator reports, Class of 2025 senator Malu Takahashi shared concerns she heard from students about the resources SU provided for students wishing to vote on Election Day.
“There was a sentiment among students that they had to either pick between attending classes, going to exams, going to work or exercising their rights as citizens and voting,” Takahashi said. “There should have been more advocacy from either the administration or someone else to enable those students and encourage them to vote.”
Panhellenic Council senator Keith Hutton plugged the upcoming midnight basketball game and Kappa Cabaret, which will occur on Nov. 14 and 16, respectively.
Activities Programming Board (APB) president Ella Penny noted several hundred attendees at APB’s Homecoming and Halloween events and promoted Cozy Bingo, which was hosted on Nov. 9.
Campus Media Board representative Luke Rainey shared about student media’s election night coverage and PRSSA’s trip to the ICON conference in Anaheim, California, last month.
SGA’s final meeting of the semester will be on Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. in CUB 119.
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