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The 2010 Winter Election results are as follows:

Executive Vice President: Terry Reilly
Vice President of Finance: Pratheek Kalyanapu
Vice President of Multicultural Affairs: Leslie James
Junior Class Senator: Flo Monier
Senator-At-Large: Camille Abdel-Nabi

Congratulations!

Hello everyone and welcome back,

SGA Elections will be held on Wednesday, February 3 through Thursday, February 4. The Winter 2009 election packet is attached to this post. Election packets and signatures must be turned in to Mather Front Desk by 4:00pm on Monday, February 1.

Positions available:
Executive Vice President;
Vice President of Finance;
Vice President of Multicultural Affairs;
1 SGA Senator from the Junior Class; and
1 Senator-At-Large from any class

One Semester on the SGA is required for any Executive Position. However, the requirement may be waived on a case-by-case basis. Please contact SGAPresident@trincoll.edu for details.

Elections are held online and an email ballot will be sent to you on the day of the election.
Anyone running for an Executive position will need 75 signatures. Anyone running for a Senator-At-Large position will need 50 signatures, and anyone running for Class Senator will need 25 signatures.

Note: The full SGA senate will meet every Sunday at 7pm. Senators must be available for meetings at this time. (There will be an exception for Super Bowl Sunday).

Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. I would be happy to meet with anyone interested in a position. If you have ever considered getting more involved in your school or amending the problems you see around you, now is your chance. Good luck!

Sincerely,

Andrew Grubin
SGAPresident@trincoll.edu

Election Packet

The final winner of the last IDP Senator position is Renee Murray. Congratulations!

Class of 2013
Officers
Christopher Lamb, President
Stephani Roman, Vice President
Leo Liyeung, Secretary
Senators
George Alpert
Ethiopia Kabtimer
Devon Mulhaney
Margaret Nolan
Dobromir Trifonov

Class of 2012
Officers
Nicole Lustig, President
Angus Anderson, Vice President
Senators
Amy Kivela
Panida Pollawit
Alexandra Powell
Lorenzo Sewanan
Terrence Reilly

Class of 2011
Officers
Giuliani Lopez, President
Justin Hallquist, Vice President
Senators
Blake Fisher
Hady Matar
William Seals
Benjamin Speicher

Class of 2010
Officers
Samuel Newman, President
Fabio Botarelli, Vice President
Senators
Christopher Gardner
Bryce Blum
Fabio Botarelli
Rebecca Herrigal
Sophia Simpson

Senators-At-Large
Tariq Islam, 2012

IDP Senators
Natalia Kolakowska
Lillie Lavado
**There will be a run-off election for the third IDP Senator. Details to to follow soon

Budget Committee
Christopher Gardener, 2010
Pratheek Kalyanapu, 2012
Giuliani Lopez, 2011
Tariq Islam, 2012

EAC
John Gaffney, 2010
Anton Reuben, 2011
Scott Eckenthal, 2012
George Alpert, 2013

Hello,
I apologize for the recent malfunctions of the website. Some unexpected errors occurred and it took me some time to figure out what was wrong and then how to fix it. Tonight I will be performing some site maintenance to help ensure this does not happen again. I will post again when I know how long the site will be down for this update. Please be patient, and it should go smoothly.
Thanks,
Sarah

In November 2008 the Institutional Research and Planning Office randomly selected 613 Trinity
College students for this survey, and mailed them links to the survey online. After three
reminders we closed the survey with 330 students responding, amounting to a 54% response rate.
Since the response rates varied significantly by gender and class year (from 38% among Senior
males to 71% among Soph females) results have been weighted by gender and class year.

View the results here to see what your peers had to say about their experiences at Trinity.

The Center for Teaching & Learning in conjunction with several other campus units is looking for students interested in participating in a panel discussion on Critical Reading in the Digital Age early next semester. During this session we will discuss the impact of new technologies (e.g., Google, Blogs, Facebook) on the process of reading and how this is affecting our teaching and learning practices. In a multimedia era, what’s the role of the printed word? Do you read more, or at all? How do you handle class assignments? Can you multitask and still be a critical reader? Even if you don’t use much technology, you probably have dealt with these issues. If you are interested, please fill out the form available here.

Participants will receive a gift certificate to an online bookstore. This event is sponsored by The Dean of Faculty’s Office, The Center for Teaching and Learning, Academic Computing, The Blume Language & Culture Learning Center, the Trinity College Library and the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric.

Click here for more information on the 02-10-08 Senate meeting video.

Have you ever thought to yourself: “It would be cool to see a map of the world that indicates where all Trinity students currently are?” Probably not. But here is a map that indicates where in the world Trinity students were when they accessed this website in the last 24 hours:

You may also be interested in knowing that in the first week of operation this website has had 2,177 hits. We have been averaging around 100 unique visitors each day in addition to the growing number of regularly returning visitors.

It’s great that so many of you are finding the site useful. Look forward to even more interesting content as the SGA starts to delve into the big issues this semester.

The first senate meeting of the Fall semester will take place today at 4:00pm. In an effort to make the SGA more transparent to the Trinity community, we will be broadcasting the meeting live on TrinitySGA.com. Please come back and join us at 4:00pm. You can watch the video here and even ask questions in real time!

Please also note that this is the first time we have done something like this. Please bear with us as we work any kinks out of the system. See you at 4pm!

Update:
Well, the first live broadcast of an SGA meeting went well. As you can see below, it was also recorded. However, for some reason the audio did not come through in the recording (although my understanding is that the live version sounded fine). I will be working to resolve the issues with recording the audio for next week. It is my hopes that we can maintain an archive of these meetings in video format in addition to broadcasting them live.

Click here for more information on the 02-03-08 Senate meeting video.