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I’m Patrick Devore, a junior in meteorology, and currently running for Student Senate President after two years of serving as a senator representing the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. I am also the current chair of the Student Senate’s tuition and fees committee. I believe that I am the best candidate to serve the student body in this role.
My goals as Senate President are internal to the Senate as well as external and more visible to the student body. One of my big external goals is to increase communication between the Senate and the student body. We have a time set aside at each meeting for the student body to address the Senate, which has been used by five people this entire session. I want the student body to know what the Senate is doing and have a more open relationship with one another.
I also aim to have the senators more visible on campus and more accessible to their colleges. I want to work with the University administration to open up more lines of communication with students. Chancellor Woodson has done a great job at this, especially this year with our impending budget cuts, but I also wish to get the deans and vice chancellors involved as well.
One of the most important duties of the Senate President is to serve on two University committees, the tuition committee, as a member, and the fees committee as the co-chairman. While I was not an official member of either of these committees this past year, I was at every meeting so I could better serve as the chairman of the Student Senate’s tuition and fees committee. If elected Senate President, I would more effectively utilize the tuition and fees chairman position by more effectively listening to student input. There is no reason that student fee increases should be approved all at once in the span of five minutes, as was the case this year.
Also, I pledge to revise the Senate internally. The rules of the Senate need some major revision, and I have ideas on how to fix them. The Senate rules cover everything from how we run meetings to procedures for each semester’s appropriations. There is a lot of red tape that I feel we can cut out and still have an effective Student Senate. I also want to promote a more cohesive Senate so that we can be a more effective branch of Student Government. I ask for your support on election day to make me Student Senate President.
Patrick Devore, junior in meteorology is currently a senator representing the college of Physical and Mathematical and a candidate for the 2011-2012 position of Student Senate President.
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