RSA elects new vice president for programming After three rounds of voting to elect next year’s vice president for programming, the Resident Student Association (RSA) voted to elect Caitlin Campana. The sophomore marketing major was running against Stefanie Montalto in the closest election RSA had this year. “The first election was pretty intense because it was really close and both candidates did a really good job,” said Smith Anderson, RSA’s president-elect. RSA members skipped the majority of the voting process to elect Rosemarie O’Connor as next year’s national communications coordinator. “She ran uncontested and she won by acclamation. She didn’t speak, we didn’t debate, no one thought she wasn’t the right person for the job,” Anderson said. After a motion by a general councilor, members voted by secret ballot unanimously to elect O’Connor. Had there been even one objection, they would have moved back into the full election process, which includes debate, question and answer and pros and cons. Campana and O’Connor will take office April 23.
First-ever ‘Husky Leadership Awards’ granted Four students and four student organizations have been recognized by the Office of Student Affairs with the first-ever “Husky Leadership Awards.” The individual student awards went to Josh Pratt, Council for University Programs concert chair; Lauren Taylor, vice president for Recruitment for Panhellenic Council; John Guilfoil, vice president for administration and public relations in the Student Government Association and Elliot Inz, vice president for finance in the Resident Student Association. The honored student groups were NU Democrats, College Republicans, Kappa Sigma Fraternity and the Islamic Society. The individuals and groups were selected because of the impact of their contributions, their enhancement of campus life and their quality of leadership. “There’s some students and student groups that did a terrific job this year, and we want to honor those students who played an integral role in enhancing the quality of life on campus,” said Ed Klotzbier, vice president for student affairs.
Student Activities to award ‘advisor of the year’ The Student Activities Office will hold the second annual reception to honor student organization advisors Thursday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in afterHOURS, said Assistant Director of Campus Activities and Programs Erin Dayharsh. At the event, the student organization advisor of the year will be presented a certificate and later a plaque commemorating his or her achievement, Dayharsh said. The nominees for the award are: Lynn Marples of Phi Kappa Alpha, Sharyn Hinton of Unity Gospel Ensemble, Karen Jasinski of Student Ambassadors, Beth-Anne Dancause of Delta Phi Epsilon, Elena Quiroz of the Latin American Student Organization and Lihua Wang of the NU Feminist Organization. Red Sox tickets will be raffled off at the event, she said, and all students in organizations are encouraged to attend with their advisors. A special interest portion of the event will allow faculty interested in becoming advisors to learn what student advising is all about, she said.
William Bulger, Dukakis to speak on campus William Bulger, former president of the Massachusetts State Senate and former president of the University of Massachusetts, will present “Leadership and Change in the Massachusetts Legislature.” The presentation will be held Thursday from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in room 440 of the Egan Research Center, political science Professor Michael Dukakis said. Bulger will discuss his experience in the Massachusetts government, and Dukakis will listen and add his own comments and experiences to Bulger’s presentation. The event is sponsored by the Department of Political Science, and is open to all Northeastern students, staff and faculty.
Grammy-winning jazz band to perform in Blackman The Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band, presented by Northeastern’s Center for the Arts, will perform live at Northeastern’s Blackman Auditorium Friday at 8 p.m. “For almost two decades, Poncho Sanchez has been an unswervingly passionate exponent of the Afro-Cuban Latin jazz pioneered a half-century ago,” according to the group’s Web site, www.centerforthearts.neu.edu. Tickets are $15 for Northeastern students, $20 for Northeastern faculty, staff and alumni and $25 for the public. Tickets can be purchased on the Center for the Art’s Web site, in the Northeastern Ticket Center in Ell Hall or by calling 617-373-2247.
— Compiled by staff writers Elizabeth Dudek, Michael Naughton and Jennifer Nelson.
