Senators at SGA will be collecting responses to a survey on Point Park’s dining services for the next two weeks, as part of an effort headed by Riley Mahon, the president pro-tempore (PPT).
Present senators were the first to submit responses and were directed by Mahon to use their weekly required office hours toward collecting additional submissions from the student body.
The survey was launched partly in response to student testimony at SGA’s town hall last week, an event whose sponsoring senators estimated had roughly 15 participants.
“We got a lot of good feedback,” Olivia Curti, SGA’s graphic design coordinator, said. Curti partly led the town hall, which ran from 5 p.m. to a little before 7 p.m.
This iteration of the hall was Minecraft themed and offered free food for any students in attendance.
Senators floated the idea of hosting another town hall before the end of the academic year, mostly to help the incoming executive cabinet get an idea of what subjects need attention from them, but did not come to a conclusion.
The only piece of business this week, a new dance club’s constitution, was unanimously approved.
The Classical Repertoire Club, sponsored by Sen. Samantha Laureys, aims to “give students a space to practice and learn classical pedagogy, ballet classes, as well as conditioning,” according to its approved constitution.
The new club is catered toward those both familiar and unfamiliar with classical ballet, allowing them regardless of ability to hone their techniques.
“We are actually recommending it more towards non-dance majors than dance majors,” Sen. Laureys told the legislature.
Grace Smith, the director of diversity, equity, inclusion and wellness (DEWI), updated SGA on her new effort to research campus accessibility.
Smith noted she read a Globe article written by Marcus Betts, which outlined specific instances of inaccessibility on campus. Smith also reviewed a previous report on campus accessibility, but noted it focused more on neurodivergence and less on students with physical disabilities.
“It was only five pages,” Smith said, “[and] I was expecting it to be longer. But, that’s fine; I was thinking about maybe starting on a new one.”
Devin Frank, director of Downtown engagement (DDE), updated the legislature on his Pioneer Community Week planning efforts. The week-long volunteering and community organizing event will take place next week.
“We’re going to be working with a lot of organizations and nonprofits Downtown,” Frank said. “It’s going to be great.”
The community week in years past was limited to a single day. It has been expanded this year to allow for more events.
One event, the “Immaculate Collection,” charges volunteers from eight area universities to clean up trash around Downtown ahead of the NFL Draft. In the past, volunteers wrote letters to prisoners, made care packages for local sexual violence shelters and created name change packets for LGBTQ+ organizations.
The next SGA meeting will be Monday, March 30 at 3:15 p.m. in the Professional Career Readiness Center. Any students interested are welcome to attend.
