Senate Beat: Double dose, Jan. 9 and 16
Tyler Blaker
Issue date: 1/18/08 Section: News
· One issue is that the clock in front of the Admissions building has been broken since we have been back from Christmas Break.
· A shower in Wiley basement is broken and has been so since school started.
· A request was brought up to have a big trash can put in the dining hall by the cuisine cook so people who wanted to throw trash away without cramming the conveyer belts could.
· There has been freshmen parking flooding the sorority lots.
Wednesday Jan. 16, 2008
Today was a special Senate meeting. Normally on the off weeks the Senate meets for attendance and then splits up into its different committees. This week was a meeting so people from Indiana Equality and the Human Rights Campaign could discuss the issues concerning LOL resolution and SJR7.
The speakers oppose the amendment because it would not allow for the protection of unmarried peoples against domestic violence. This concerns Hanover in particular because Hanover started giving benefits to domestic partners last year.
Another reason the speakers said they are against SJR7 is that it tampers with visitation rights in various areas. If a person were to be hospitalized and they have a life partner as the next of kin, the hospital could stop that partner from being able to visit even if that person wanted them there.
The speakers were then asked if they could argue the other side. They were able to offer a brief segment about the side supporting SJR7. Kurt Smith of Indiana Family Institute (IFI) argues that the amendment protects marriage as a religious institute for men and women.
After this special meeting the Senate split into its committees.
In programming there were nominations to be in Baynum, which is the professor of the year award. Nominees were:
Freshmen: Jasmine O'Conner, Spencer Gray
Sophomores: Ross Alexander, Van Green
Juniors: Kathryn Suddarth, Sarah Shoemaker
Seniors: Krista Bowman, Mike Ripley
· A shower in Wiley basement is broken and has been so since school started.
· A request was brought up to have a big trash can put in the dining hall by the cuisine cook so people who wanted to throw trash away without cramming the conveyer belts could.
· There has been freshmen parking flooding the sorority lots.
Wednesday Jan. 16, 2008
Today was a special Senate meeting. Normally on the off weeks the Senate meets for attendance and then splits up into its different committees. This week was a meeting so people from Indiana Equality and the Human Rights Campaign could discuss the issues concerning LOL resolution and SJR7.
The speakers oppose the amendment because it would not allow for the protection of unmarried peoples against domestic violence. This concerns Hanover in particular because Hanover started giving benefits to domestic partners last year.
Another reason the speakers said they are against SJR7 is that it tampers with visitation rights in various areas. If a person were to be hospitalized and they have a life partner as the next of kin, the hospital could stop that partner from being able to visit even if that person wanted them there.
The speakers were then asked if they could argue the other side. They were able to offer a brief segment about the side supporting SJR7. Kurt Smith of Indiana Family Institute (IFI) argues that the amendment protects marriage as a religious institute for men and women.
After this special meeting the Senate split into its committees.
In programming there were nominations to be in Baynum, which is the professor of the year award. Nominees were:
Freshmen: Jasmine O'Conner, Spencer Gray
Sophomores: Ross Alexander, Van Green
Juniors: Kathryn Suddarth, Sarah Shoemaker
Seniors: Krista Bowman, Mike Ripley
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