Posts by Emily Angell
Promoting Philanthropy
By Emily Angell, written on Jul. 15, 2007
A new link between University student groups may be created this fall with the launch of the Student Philanthropy Council. The new council, which aims to “increase student awareness and participation in all philanthropic endeavors in and around campus,” hopes to aid student groups in meeting their goals by encouraging collaboration between student leaders.
SPC founders are taking direction from similar groups at universities around the nation that have been successful in promoting philanthropy. The SPC will pursue the following five main objectives:
1.RESOURCE: Act as a resource to the student body. Provide fellow undergraduates with information about funding for student groups, how to connect with alumni and programming opportunities.
2.LIAISON: Act as a liaison between the student body and the Development Community, specifically Annual Giving, RPP and the Alumni Association
3.PROGRAMMER: Create and run one educational program per year (e.g. “spirit week”)
4.INNOVATOR: Bring SPCs from universities across the country together during the summer for a week-long conference at UM
5.FUNDRAISER: Promote Senior Gift
However, the SPC says that because many of the council members will be busy with their respective student groups, large objectives like three and five may not be pursued initially.
The council hopes to attract the likes of The Michigan Student Assembly, Athletics, Greek Life, Hillel, Multi Ethnic Student Affairs and Dance Marathon, to name a few.
MSA ramblings from last night’s meeting
By Emily Angell, written on Apr. 11, 2007
Last night’s Michigan Student Assembly meeting was a four-hour event.
At the start of the meeting, MSA representatives voted to place the Resolution to Issue an Open Letter to All Recently Admitted Students and the General Public of Michigan in old business, effectively delaying voting on the issue until the Fall semester. The letter would have been sent to all incoming freshmen to let them know that the passage of Proposal 2 would not affect campus atmosphere regarding diversity.
BAMN representatives, students and a teacher from Cass Tech in Detroit were all present at the meeting to rally MSA representatives to pass the resolution, which they believe will make the campus more welcoming following the passing of prop 2.
BAMN and their allies were clearly shaken when MSA representatives decided to put the resolution on the backburner.
At the meeting, supporters of the resolution said they still plan on sending out a revised version of the letter in the next few weeks.
Following this, the open positions on the executive board were filled by Sabrina Shingwani (Treasurer), Arvind Sohoni (Student General Counsel) and Nate Fink (Chief of Staff). Zack Yost and Mohammad Dar are the president and vice president, respectively.
The rest of the meeting primarily consisted of electing new chairs and vice chairs of the existing committees and commissions. A complete list follows below.
Committees:
BPC Tony Vuljaj (chair) Stella Binkevich (vice chair)
CGC Nicole Vitale (c) Lauren Washington (vc)
R&E Brian Steers (c) Elson Liu (vc)
Comm Sha Beamon (c) Ari Seigel (vc)
ERC Kyle Goszyk (c) Gerasimos Houpis (vc)
Commissions:
LGBT Jen Hsu and Ashley Schwedt
NCAC Rahul Daswani and Sujuata Syamal
MAC Stephanie Parker and Tiffany Torres
WIC (Vacant)
AAC Max Nowak, Alex Jiga
P&J Lisa Treumuth, Aria Everts
SRC Jennifer Reyna and Peter Borock
ISAC (internal election)
HIC Lauren Inouye and Nick Golinvaux
CaSC Bret Chaness
CSC Paula Klein and Aaron Willis
VYV Jon Kendall
CIC Mike Moses and Irene (?)
Alumni Outreach SC Alex Jiga
Internship SC Allison Schneider
Homecoming SC Gibran Baydoun
Disability SC Tim Hull and John Bell