Senate receives 36 applications for $40k spring grant program
19 student groups submitted 20 applications requesting $100,000 in winter funding.
Appropriations
Undergraduate Senate discusses website, attendance policy
Senator Ashley Harris ’15 has been absent from both of the Senate’s first on-campus meetings this year. Additionally, President Robbie Zimbroff ’12 and Vice President William Wagstaff ’12 were also absent, and thus unable to give an executive update.
Op-Ed: What the ASSU does, and can do better
In the end, ASSU self-actualization has to be a two-way exchange.
Senate approves one group for early discretionary money
Former senator and Appropriations Chair Anton Zietsman ’12 blasted the committee’s efforts — insufficient efforts, new chair Rafael Vasquez ’12 admitted — to publicize the period last week when student groups could seek early discretionary funding.
Student group funding comm. gets new chairman
The committee, which is part of the ASSU Undergraduate Senate and holds some of the purse strings of Stanford’s hundreds of student groups, is set to draft interim funding policies for the 2010-11 school year this week after former committee chair Anton Zietsman ’12 urged it on Wednesday to move quickly.
Senate names committee members
The 12th ASSU Undergraduate Senate held its first full-length meeting on Tuesday, confirming the 2010-11 ASSU executive cabinet and the membership of the Senate committees…
The Daily’s reporting policies on ASSU elections and special fees coverage
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Senators debate SSD stipends for officers
With special fees petitioning season on its way, the ASSU Undergraduate Senate last night considered the projected Student Services Division (SSD) budget, which will move SSD to special fees for the first time this year. A number of senators expressed clear opposition to the allotted stipends, suggesting that SSD officers ought not be paid through the special fee at all.