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SGA takes bite out of inactive CSOs
Senate passes bill dechartering 41 student groups
Jamie Robinson
Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: News
The Student Government Association came close to revoking the charter of SLU TV this week, while Dean of Students Scott Smith, Ph.D., said to students that, lately, he has had to "look in the mirror a lot and learn."
In what SGA Executive Vice President Samantha Howard said was an effort to "clean house," Senate members voted in the meeting on Wednesday, April 9, to revoke the charters of 41 student organizations that have no student members and are "inactive," including the Pub Club, the Fantasy Role-Playing Club and the End-the-Apathy Club.
Several clubs were saved from the initial bill for de-chartering, including the Life at SLU Television Network-known as SLU TV, which was on the list because senators who proposed the bill were not aware that the two were the same organization.
To save the active chartered student organization, the rules were suspended and SLU TV, along with 10 other previously-removed CSOs, was removed from the de-chartering, which then passed unanimously.
President and Co-Founder of the Gun Awareness and Marksmanship Education club Tom Applewhite spoke to the Senate about the possibility of making GAME a CSO.
Smith joined Applewhite to talk to the Senate about the process the two had taken in exploring the possibility of chartering GAME.
"I had anticipated that [the discussion about chartering GAME] would not go smoothly," Smith said.
He has been working with Applewhite to make sure that the chartering process is clear and professional. He said that his feelings about the gun issue are not affecting helping the group pursue becoming a CSO.
Applewhite said that GAME is concerned with safety and education about guns.
He said that the organization has no intentions to change SLU's gun-free campus policy, or to encourage the breaking of this law by its members.
"We're not big on meetings; we're big on events," Applewhite said about the club's activities, which have been entirely self-funded thus far. College of Philosophy and Letters Sen. Ronald O'Dwyer, S.J., asked Applewhite about the timing of the attempt to charter the club, considering the recent college shootings and the local Kirkwood shootings.
In what SGA Executive Vice President Samantha Howard said was an effort to "clean house," Senate members voted in the meeting on Wednesday, April 9, to revoke the charters of 41 student organizations that have no student members and are "inactive," including the Pub Club, the Fantasy Role-Playing Club and the End-the-Apathy Club.
Several clubs were saved from the initial bill for de-chartering, including the Life at SLU Television Network-known as SLU TV, which was on the list because senators who proposed the bill were not aware that the two were the same organization.
To save the active chartered student organization, the rules were suspended and SLU TV, along with 10 other previously-removed CSOs, was removed from the de-chartering, which then passed unanimously.
President and Co-Founder of the Gun Awareness and Marksmanship Education club Tom Applewhite spoke to the Senate about the possibility of making GAME a CSO.
Smith joined Applewhite to talk to the Senate about the process the two had taken in exploring the possibility of chartering GAME.
"I had anticipated that [the discussion about chartering GAME] would not go smoothly," Smith said.
He has been working with Applewhite to make sure that the chartering process is clear and professional. He said that his feelings about the gun issue are not affecting helping the group pursue becoming a CSO.
Applewhite said that GAME is concerned with safety and education about guns.
He said that the organization has no intentions to change SLU's gun-free campus policy, or to encourage the breaking of this law by its members.
"We're not big on meetings; we're big on events," Applewhite said about the club's activities, which have been entirely self-funded thus far. College of Philosophy and Letters Sen. Ronald O'Dwyer, S.J., asked Applewhite about the timing of the attempt to charter the club, considering the recent college shootings and the local Kirkwood shootings.
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