Welcome back! I hope your break was as long as you had hoped it would be, and that you got the rest that I’m sure you wouldn’t mind more of. This semester, the Independent Council has several events planned, and is starting initiatives to improve independents’ lives around campus.
It is the IC’s unstated goal to push as much food as possible down your throat at every event we find ourselves hosting. This semester won’t be any different. Our biannual pool tournament lives again, and we will be giving out monetary prizes to the top three players, as well as—did I need to tell you this?—food for everyone. If food and skills alone aren’t your priority, we’d like to invite you to laughs and eating twice this semester, with our food sponsorship of one Sheer Idiocy and one UPAC Comedy event.
Of course, we couldn’t just throw food-a-thons without a cause. Our goal is to ensure that independent students socialize as much as greek students, and also to ensure that their rights as independents are upheld. The biggest issue with promoting the second goal is the diversity of the independent population.
We seek to garner your opinion, and so we ask that you fill out our surveys in the Union regarding options for laundry and dry cleaning through the Union in the future. Also on the agenda to be ready for next year, is a web-based survey system that will help all areas of student government, the administration, and the Rensselaer community state their opinions on items that would otherwise be decided for them by representatives that might not know what the true public sentiment is.
If you are interested in helping to set up this web-based system, feel free to contact me at marcua@rpi.edu. Please stop by one of the IC meetings on Tuesdays at 9 pm in the Rensselaer Union’s Student Government Suite.
