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Faculty Senate endorses gen. ed reform hesitantly

Faculty Senate endorses gen. ed reform hesitantly

By Margaret Maka | October 29, 2014

Faculty Senate endorsed a program that will reform gen. eds, but its members also expressed concern about the program’s pace and implementation plan at a meeting Wednesday.Progressive Learning in Undergraduate Studies aims to reform general education...

SA gives recognition to retiring VP

By Margaret Maka | October 26, 2014

The Student Association Senate passed a motion to honor Bill Nicklas, vice president of Operations and Community Relations, as an eternal honorary senator Sunday for his advocacy of students’ rights and shared governance, said SA Senate Speaker Dillon...

The Student Association Senate meets Sunday in the Holmes Student Center, Sky Room. The Senate had a redo of last week’s senator-at-large candidates after it was discovered the Senate disobeyed SA Bylaws. In order to adhere to the bylaws, senator-at-large candidates were voted on to the Senate by a two-thirds majority and were not allowed to vote on other business matters until every senator-at-large candidate at the meeting had been voted on. 

Senate full after redo of last week

By Margaret Maka | October 19, 2014

Following last Sunday’s breach of the Student Association bylaws, eight senator-at-large candidates went before the SA Senate Sunday for another vote.Senate Speaker Dillon Domke and the Rules and Procedures committee decided to redo the vote after the...

Duck Soup Coop co-manager Sue Kinsey (right) rings up food for law student Shaina Kalanges Wednesday at Duck Soup Coop, 129 E. Hillcrest Drive. Duck Soup Coop is celebrating 40 years of providing the DeKalb community with organic and locally grown food. Duck Soup Coop plans to celebrate by holding a rummage sale and a pot-luck later this month.

Duck Soup Coop: 40 years accomplished

By Margaret Maka | October 15, 2014

Duck Soup Coop co-manager Sue Kinsey (right) rings up food for law student Shaina Kalanges Wednesday at Duck Soup Coop, 129 E. Hillcrest Drive. Duck Soup Coop is celebrating 40 years of providing the DeKalb community with organic and locally grown food. Duck Soup Coop plans to celebrate by holding a rummage sale and a pot-luck later this month.

Junior marketing major Taras Lesyk gives a speech on why he should be appointed a senator at large at the Student Association meeting Sunday in the Holmes Student Center, Sky Room. The Student Association appointed nine senators-at-large as well as two Supreme Court justices.

SA Senate full after meeting

By Margaret Maka | October 12, 2014

The Student Association Senate appointed nine senators-at-large to establish a full Senate, as well as two Supreme Court justices Sunday.Elections in September failed to fill the Senate.“This is one of the earliest times that I’ve seen that the Senate...

Michael Herrera, senior political science major, looks out the window of the Huskie Pup Tuesday. The shuttles run on the sidewalks between the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons and Recreation Center. Three more Pups will be added.

More Huskie Pups to be added

By Margaret Maka | October 8, 2014

Three $18,500 Huskie Pups are expected to roll into campus in the coming weeks after the university’s first 11-passenger shuttle was debuted Friday.The first Pup will ideally run 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, said Belinda Roller, an Architectural...