Ohio University Student Senate presented the second OU Superstar award and passed three significant resolutions at its meeting last night.
Senate president Kristen Jensen presented the OU Superstar award to Jennifer Howald, a senior hearing, speech and language sciences major. Howald, president of OU's chapter of the National Student Speech, Language and Hearing Association, was the senator for South Green during the 2002-2003 school year.
Also an active member of the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, Howald has shown leadership and taken responsibility for many projects, said Allison Bonhard, the fraternity's president.
She is always there to give 110 percent
Bonhard said.
Howald was nominated for the award, which is given four times per quarter, by OU Student Trustee Dustin Wood, who said Howald's civic responsibility and leadership brought her to mind as the perfect candidate.
Senate unanimously passed two resolutions about federal Pell Grants. The recent reduction of Pell Grants funds by the U.S. Congress is making it difficult for students to afford a college education.
We should not stand idly by while students are shunned based on their economic class said Joey Gibson, international affairs commissioner.
The first resolution proposed OU create scholarships to compensate for the decrease in aid.
The second resolution requests a meeting of OU's Admissions, Recruitment, Scholarship and Financial Aid Committee to research ways to help students with Pell Grant losses. Senate suggested the system show not only financial aid given but also alert students to the new amount of aid.
State and Federal Affairs Commissioner Mark Mecum said about 3,500 student Pell Grants will be reduced and about 200 will be eliminated, based on projections from Fall Quarter 2004 statistics.
Senate also unanimously passed a resolution urging OU to join the Workers Rights Consortium, a non-profit organization designed to ensure apparel with university logos is manufactured in accord with labor laws. OU is a member of the Fair Labor Association; 134 of the 191 universities and colleges in the association (including Kent State University and Miami University) have joined the Workers Rights Consortium
It's definitely groundbreaking. We've never gone down this road before said Bryn Beers, University Life Commissioner.
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