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​Senators present carryover requests

SGA senators, representing different campus groups, presented carryover fund requests to the senate to be voted on at next weeks meeting. India Way, budget and finance committee chair, introduced the bills requesting thousands of dollars toward these groups. “We have the carryover bills that are going to come in as future orders tonight, so those will be voted on a week from today,” Way said. Lucy Anne Link, senator at-large, represented leadership and student services and requested carryover funds worth $12,124 for their activity portfolio for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. Ashley Archer, engineering senator, represented programming student activity, and requested $81,812.56 for their activity portfolio to go toward university programming. Student media was represented by Brock Hendon, business senator, and requested $28,352.97 in carryover for their activity portfolio. Daniel Hess, senator at-large, then represented student organizations asking for $51,128.08 for their carryover funds. Following the presentation of carryover bills, the senate discussed more election related bills. Hunter Gibson, senator at-large, detailed the changes to the senate. “This is just the third bill in the process of auditing the election law,” Gibson said.

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SGA's Mental Health Task Force scheduled to report findings next month

By Claire Tully | Campus Writer | November 6

Walker Byrd, SGA president, recently discussed the developments that are taking place with the Task Force on campus to address mental illness at Auburn. This comes shortly after Branch Acton, social work senior, wrote to the Plainsman and said, “Auburn needs more mental health counselors.” Byrd agreed in his response to the letter and is now providing information about the Task Force and what they are looking to do to better the university’s mental illness resources. “We initiated the Task Force back in August.

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​$10 million grant creates opportunities for college of human sciences

By Claire Tully | Campus Writer | November 5

Auburn’s College of Human Sciences, recently received a grant of $10 million that will go to study Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Initiative, according to Francesca Alder-Baeder, professor of human development and family studies. “The grant comes through us and then we employ a lot of people and pay graduate research assistants and then we have ten families research centers in other parts of the state,” Adler-Baeder said. Adler-Baeder said that student involvement is important to this initiative. “There will continue to be a lot of student involvement,” Adler-Baeder said.

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Auburn Student Science Program receives grant from National Science Foundation

By Rachel Sprouse l Campus Writer | November 3

The Auburn Student Space Program has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to design, build and test two CubeSat satellites. The idea began when J-M Wersinger, director of the Auburn University Student Space Program, was working with Dr. Michael Briggs at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. "We had been talking for a while about doing some joint work on CubeSats because he had been doing work on a big satellite,"  Wersinger said.

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