The SGA Senate council wore seer-sucker suits Monday, April 21, for their last meeting of the 2014 spring semester to finalize future orders of business.
A curriculum change to the college of engineering that would shorten total undergraduate credit hours from 134 to 128 by eliminating three credit hours from the humanities and the social sciences core.
"I'm really glad that other students will have the opportunity to have that option to not take all of those hours," said Beverly Jenkins, senior in chemical engineering. "We're still fulfilling all of the learning outcomes and so we're still producing well rounded students, we're just taking a few less hours."
Many engineering students are on a four-year scholarship that doesn't extend into a necessary ninth semester, but now all future and existing engineering students can manage their undergraduate in eight semesters, Jenkins said.
The dates for the upcoming Miss Auburn pageant were set for the 2014 fall semester:
Thursday, Sept. 4 is candidate orientation
Monday, Sept. 22 formal campaigning begins
Friday, Sept. 26 is voting day
A resolution was passed to commend Shirley Scott-Harris, founder of the Alabama Power Excellence program, for her service to the University now that she is retiring.
Under Scott-Harris, Auburn currently ranks seventh in the country in degrees awarded to African-American engineering students.
The SGA Senate council will be serving donuts and drinks in the library and student center during finals week from 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
An amendment was passed to restructure the involvement adviser structure review board in the code of laws to ensure that student views and opinions are more strongly represented in the hiring of new advisers.
Student feedback will now play a greater role in the hiring and evaluation of advisers, said Richmond Gunter, SGA treasurer and junior in finance.
"This puts a strong structure in place to ensure that student's voices are heard," Gunter said. "This ensures that our money spent on tuition is used wisely. This is not something we rushed into, this is a conversation we've been having that I think is important."
General Electric Water and Process Technologies Department awarded Auburn's facilities management and energy department the Proof Not Promises award for its two steam-powered energy plants on campus.
The two plants recovered the cost of more than $20,000 worth of energy through their efficiency.
The Plainsman, which has been financially independent from Auburn University since 1893, was granted a reserve fund request of $4,860 to fund its adviser salaries during the summer.
"I thought it was interesting that throughout The Plainsman's history they have always been self-sufficient and self funded," said Justin Mathews, sophomore in building science "Since The Plainsman is such a big part of Auburn University we at SGA said we needed to pass this thing, we need to help them out because they do so much for us."
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