Student Senate had their agenda packed for Wednesday night’s meeting, as senators discussed new initiatives and geared up for the annual Halloween block party.
Pat McGee, managing attorney for the Center for Student Legal Services, began the meeting with a presentation on the “13 surefire ways to get busted on Halloween.”
The center has held over 20 presentations for the student body this semester, urging students to know the ways they can get in trouble and how to avoid them, McGee said.
The most common ways for students to get in trouble included public urination, drinking or having an open container on the sidewalk, disobeying police officers, pretending to fight and providing alcohol to minors, according to McGee’s presentation.
“If anything gives OU a bad name, it’s that OU students get absolutely wasted and disregard the neighborhoods,” McGee said, in reference to public urination.
“Of all the things not to do, arguing with officers on Halloween is probably the number one thing you don’t want to do,” he added.
Following McGee, senate moved on to a presentation from Henry Kessler, a sophomore at OU studying art history, about OU’s “Got Swabbed?” bone marrow drive.
Those volunteering with the drive have already swabbed over 6,000 students and learned last week that the drive has already saved 15 lives, Kessler said.
“It’s not something you can do every day to save a life and it’s something we are fortunate enough to be able to do,” he said.
Student Senate President Zach George kicked off the senate letter writing campaign at Wednesday’s meeting as well, detailing how senators will express their concerns about rising college costs to state legislators.
Each senator will write two letters, one to Ohio Gov. John Kasich and one to another assigned Ohio legislator, which must be turned in by Nov. 20, George said.
“Share your story, make these personal,” he said. “No one knows what we’re going through better than we do.”
Other business at the meeting included the first reading of a resolution in support of student trustee voting rights.
Ryan Lombardi, interim vice president for Student Affairs, concluded the meeting by handing a framed print of OU’s letterhead to George that was signed by President Barack Obama upon his recent visit to OU.
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