Voting for the Student Government Association (SGA) elections will run from April 210 at noon until April 22 at noon at go/sgavote. Results of the election will be released at the earliest via an all-campus email April 24.
Before the end of the academic year, the SGA will continue work on two major issues: the establishment of a small gym in Ross Commons and a resolution on offering pass/fail classes.
The SGA plans to vote on the bill proposing the funding for the creation and maintenance of a Ross annex gym within the next two weeks. The SGA would fund up to $30,000 in gym equipment for the space. Additional costs associated with this transformation include necessary renovations, such as the establishment of a key-card access system and funding for a student monitor.
The decision has received generally positive support from the Ross Commons community. Results from a recent poll of Ross Commons indicated that 93 percent of the students supported the transformation of the space in question into a gym.
The SGA hopes this gym will be both convenient for students, and also help to solve the problem of overcrowding that currently exists in the main gym.
If the gym in Ross Commons proves to be both successful and is fiscally sustainable, the SGA will discuss establishing a similar one in Atwater Commons in the space that currently serves as the Atwater Library.
Under the proposed pass/fail system students will be able to take a maximum of two classes for a credit that would count towards graduation, yet would not be factored into a student’s GPA.
The decision to take a class for pass/fail credit would have to have to be established with professors before the class had started, and the pass/fail option could not apply to classes that filled either major or distribution requirements. Supporters of the resolution hope the change would encourage students to take classes across a wider range of disciplines and course levels.
SGA update: SGA to vote on funding for Ross gym, pass/fail system
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