Graduate Student Senate will hear from Ohio University Police Department Chief Andrew Powers and Athens Police Department Chief Tom Pyle, GSS President Maria Modayil said.
Modayil said the body will discuss the GSS mission and the graduate professional student appreciation week. There are also four resolutions the body will discuss.
“One is a new member resolution. As you know there are open positions in GSS and we have someone who applied for the Department Representative for Educational Studies so that is the new resolution,” Modayil said.
The body also has two resolutions regarding the Center for Student Legal Services. According to a previous Post report, the CLS presented to the body asking it to support the contract renewal and a fee increase. Modayil said GSS has two resolutions in support of this.
At the last meeting, GSS passed a resolution to allocate $200 to dry food packages at the last general body meeting.
“We just bought all the ingredients this past week, then the executives got together today since it was a holiday,” Modayil said. “We wanted to do a trial run of the food packaging to see how much the stuff we bought would make and how much time it would take.”
Modayil said they made around 30 packages and only spent about $50.
“It gave us an idea for how much to buy in terms of the materials and also where to buy them from,” Modayil said.
The overall GSS budget is still in the negatives Modayil said.
“We’ve had some conversations since the last meeting with some of the administrators but I don’t think we have had a resolve on any of that,” Modayil said. “They’re continuing to receive budget requests and allocate money, so that is not stopping us from functioning.”
Four members of GSS attended the National Graduate-Professionals Student Conference on Nov. 1 through 4. Those members included Modayil, Michael Senteney, the vice president for finance and Susan Ngbabare, senator for Patton College of Education.
“There were a lot of conversations on similar topics that we struggle with here at Ohio and it was good to see other schools talking about that and bringing combined voices to help deal through those issues,” Modayil said.
GSS will meet on Tuesday Nov. 13 at 7:00 p.m. in Walter Hall room 235.
