Lukas Illion, news correspondent
• September 18, 2019
Some referenda appear to be successful at first glance, but oftentimes these successes were motivated or assisted by forces beyond the student body or the SGA.
Representatives of the NSCC, SGA and the graduate student union attributed the administration’s lack of transparency surrounding the investigation of purported fascist materials found from Snell Library as one of the reasons for the coalition.
For every three students who voted for the Brown-Nobile slate in this year’s Student Government Association election, two students voted no confidence.
Earlier this semester, the Student Government Association, or SGA, added an official abstain ballot option to give students...
The Brown-Nobile slate received 61 percent of the student vote in this year’s uncontested election, establishing Chris Brown as president and Gabby Nobile as executive vice president of next year’s Student Government Association, or SGA.
Currently, SGA bylaws call for a special election following a no confidence result, during which senators can nominate any qualified person not already elected to a different office.
The SGA passed an internal budget proposal to stop funding stipends for its executive staff through the SAF and decrease its overall budget by 48 percent.
“FOIA NUPD” and “Fair OSCCR Hearings,” proposed by the NUCR, did not receive enough signatures by the deadline and therefore will not be on the ballot.
Chris Brown and Gabby Nobile will run uncontested for president and vice president of SGA on the platform of accessibility, academic advising and improving relations with other groups.
