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1. Common Hour Exams on Days Before Breaks

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   Anonymous supported this idea  ·  Oct 31, 2017

2. Teacher Training for Higher Education Professors

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   Anonymous supported this idea  ·  Oct 31, 2017

3. E-Days Concert Lineup

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   Anonymous supported this idea  ·  Oct 30, 2017
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   Anonymous commented  ·  Oct 30, 2017  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   They're trying to say that EDM fans haven't even been given an option.. so you say there's voting but from what I've heard no one is happy about the lineup... They encouraged the lineup vote changing for better hip hop artists with better performances and an option for an EDM headliner. They don't want everything to change, they just want the option for the campus.

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4. Water Fountain Filtering Monitoring

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   Anonymous supported this idea  ·  Oct 31, 2017

5. Keep Dave Gabrielson and Stephanie To as President and VP of USG

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   Campus,

   First of all, USG would like to apologize for all of the confusion and our error over the elections. It was determined after elections closed that the ticket that held David and Stephanie’s name was actually ineligible. USG made the mistake by putting them on the ballot; we knew the election packet was turned in late, but we did not realize it was a blatant violation of our bylaws. If we would have known this prior, their names would not have appeared on the ballot. Due to this mistake, and the fact that the ineligible candidates won the election, we are reopening the elections for the Student Body President and Vice President positions.

   This election is open to any students who are interested in the positions of Student Body President and Vice President. A new timeline has been created, and is as follows.

   April 16th: Election packets available for pick up
   April 17th: Election packets due at 12:00pm in hand to Jenn Mazzotta in the Student Activities Office
   April 17th: Election poll opens at 5:00 pm
   April 20th: Election poll closes at 5:00 pm

   The election packet can be found in your email. Student Body President and Vice President will run on the same ticket, therefore only one packet must be turned in, and only 100 signatures will be required due to the short timeline.

   Again, we are truly sorry for the mistake we have made. Make sure you voice your opinion by voting.

   Love, USG

   Campus,

   First of all, USG would like to apologize for all of the confusion and our error over the elections. It was determined after elections closed that the ticket that held David and Stephanie’s name was actually ineligible. USG made the mistake by putting them on the ballot; we knew the election packet was turned in late, but we did not realize it was a blatant violation of our bylaws. If we would have known this prior, their names would not have appeared on the ballot. Due to this mistake, and the fact that the ineligible candidates won the election, we are reopening the elections for the Student Body President and Vice President positions.

   This election is open to any students who are interested in the positions of Student Body President and Vice President. A new timeline has been created, and is as follows.

   April 16th: Election packets available for… more

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   Anonymous commented  ·  Apr 16, 2015  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   What was the specific reason of disqualification?

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6. IM Sports should be free

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   For the 2015/2015 school year Club Sports, IM Sports, Be Well, and the ORC are all in charge of distributing the money they get allocated as a whole amongst themselves. How they spend their money and the decision to charge for IM sports will be entirely up to them. We expressed how upset students are about the charge to John Howard, who is in charge of IM sports, so we hope that changes are made for next year.

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   USG
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   Hello,

   We agree that IM sports should be free. The issue here is that there was a $17,000 field maintenance fee dropped on IM Sports and Club Sports at the beginning of the semester that was not expected. IM Sports has to cover $10,000 while Club covers $7,000.

   This fee was charged by facilities at the beginning of the school year, after allocations had taken place. Allocations take place is the spring for the following school year. Below is a detailed description on what USG cut from the amount they requested in the spring.

   Overall IM Sports requested $94,000
   CUTS:
   -cut $2,000 for new software for video productions
   -cut $2,500 for replacing old computers (money can be requested through tech fee)
   -cut $5,000 for a new video productions department
   - cut $4,000 for a field supervisor for afternoon use
   -cut $1200 for creating a new workstation in the oudoor shed.
   Total Amount Allocated: 79,305

   Everything else was fully funded. This includes clothing/uniforms, equipment, tournaments, registration fees, rentals, extramurals, prizes, funding for employees, and equipment for staff.

   As you can see, almost all cuts were made for the software and staff for a video making department they were hoping to implement. The remaining cuts, we admit, can have had a slight impact on IM sports budget. The afternoon outdoor sports would probably take a slight hit without money for the supervisor. Other than that, however, IM sports was funded adequately to provide sports to the student body without a fee.

   Again, the issue here is the surprise fee brought by facilities for field maintenance. We are looking into why this fee was imposed while in previous years it has not been an issue. Facilities maintenance is a line item on the schools budget and we don’t believe that the Associated Students Fee, the fee that funds clubs and organization, should be used in these costs. We hope to have more information on the reasoning behind the costs soon.

   For the 2015/2015 school year Club Sports, IM Sports, Be Well, and the ORC are all in charge of distributing the money they get allocated as a whole amongst themselves. How they spend their money and the decision to charge for IM sports will be entirely up to them. We expressed how upset students are about the charge to John Howard, who is in charge of IM sports, so we hope that changes are made for next year.

   Love,
   USG
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   Hello,

   We agree that IM sports should be free. The issue here is that there was a $17,000 field maintenance fee dropped on IM Sports and Club Sports at the beginning of the semester that was not expected. IM Sports has to cover $10,000 while Club covers $7,000.

   This fee was charged by facilities at the beginning of the school year, after allocations had taken place. Allocations take place… more

7. digger den open later instead of mines market

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   Below are all the details associated with this issue:

   On Thursday, January 15th, Undergraduate Student Government had our first meeting of the semester. The main topic of the evening was Mines Market. With the opening of Mines Market and closure of Slate Café, there were changes in the hours of Digger Den. Mines Market is now open late at night while Digger Den’s hours were cut back. Also the previous to go option where students were allowed to grab anything Slate was offering that day was replaced with a to go sandwich with two sides. This has caused a lot of upset with the campus. As a result, USG asked a few staff members involved in this decision making process to come and speak about why this decision was made and take input on how things could be improved. Rebecca Flintoft, VP of Student Life, Gayle Witzke, Campus Dining, and Susan Fukushima, Campus Dining, were the staff present to speak.
   First the reasoning behind the decision to switch the late night hours from Digger Den to Mines Market was discussed. One reason was that the location is closer to the majority of residents on campus. Another was that they wanted to showcase the new location, make it more of a “hang out” area for students who live on campus. It is more cost effective for them to run Mines Market than Digger Den since producing food in a made to order style is more expensive. They did look into the numbers of people who went to Digger Den after hours and honestly just thought that Mines Market would be viewed as a reasonable replacement for Digger Den late at night.
   Obviously Mines Market is not a suitable replacement for Digger Den after 7pm. There have been over 1000 votes on What’s Your Beef and several complaints on social media about the switch. We brought up every concern that we heard to the three staff members. The main issue is that there aren’t enough options. Students used to have a wide variety of full meals to little snacks at Digger Den and now their only options are pizza and salad. This issue is only going to get worse when students start having common hours and need something to eat after or when the semester starts getting harder and people are up late studying. Also, for students with evening classes that go past seven, only having one food option for dinner is unacceptable. Another concern is that there are hardly any options past seven that are healthy. The salad bar recently opened but that is it. Students were also concerned about options for gluten free or dairy free food for people with food allergies, but it was explained that there is always gluten free or dairy free option all that you need to do is ask for it!
   The next big issue was that Mines Market is a terrible option for people without unlimited meal plans. Getting into Mines Market costs about $9 dollars where as at Digger Den you could get a full meal for $5. This doesn’t really affect people with unlimited meal plans because they would most likely use a meal swipe at either location, so cost is the same. But for upperclassmen or anyone on a lower tear meal plan it is an issue. Anything lower than unlimited only gets two meal swipes a day so if they use those up they have to use Munch Money to get food past 7 and that costs them significantly more than Digger Den. And then anyone without a meal plan is paying out of pocket $9 for food they may not even want that much, but it is now the only option at that late hour. Also, Mines Market is like Slate where there isn’t anywhere to sit unless you pay to get in, so this really reduces the atmosphere that Digger Den had. Several freshman would go there weekend nights and hang out, regardless if all their friends were eating. Now this hang out spot is gone.
   USG communicated to the staff that the beset option would be to reopen Digger Den and close Mines Market past 7. However, the response to this was that there would be some ‘serious repercussions’ for doing this. This may include taking away hours from other locations like Subway or raising the prices at Digger Den. We think this is ridiculous since its essentially the exactly the same cost and same plan as what was happening last semester. Unfortunately, we don’t know what we could do to prevent that from happening.
   The Sodexo staff were very open to all of the feedback we had to give them about Mines Market. So, they have started implementing a few things to make it better for the students. First, they agreed to allow people to take full to go bozes of food again, which is great! Anther change they are going to start making is rotating food options from night to night and trying to have at least two or three options available a night. That way it’s not just pizza all the time. Also they are working in bringing in a la carte options. This includes snacks like they used to have at Digger Den like ice cream, candy, fridges for drinks, etc. That way people who want to grab a snack to take back to the dorms or upperclassmen without meal plans can get a cheap snack. Also they are going to have the option to take pizza to go so that students can take it back to their dorm. We are really hoping that these changes help and we will be continuing to be giving feedback to Sodexo so that they can continue improving.
   One thing to point out is that Digger Den is being replaced next year with more restaurant style options. It’ll be similar in that it’s made to order food and there will be lots of options like grill food, maybe sushi, Mexican, etc. Once this is open it will have the late night hours like Digger Den did. So Mines Market should only be open for the late night for one semester. Still, we are doing our best to make sure that there are adequate late night options for this semester.
   Overall USG wanted to convey to the three staff that the school is solely responsible for the food options that on campus students have. Since it’s mostly freshman, they don’t have cars to transport them to locations downtown. They are forced to spend thousands of dollars on a meal plan already and should not be forced to buy additional food because their options are so terrible. Switching Digger Den and Mines Market hours back to what they normally were will apparently have ‘serious repercussions’ and we don’t know what we can do to prevent that. USG is trying very hard to make sure that Mines Market is improving. We really appreciate hearing what people have to say and want to hear if the proposed changes help or if they don’t help. Any feedback you have will be taken to Sodexo so that they can continue to make changes.

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   Hi!

   I just want to remind you all that we have a meeting tonight at 6pm in Petroleum Hall where we will be discussing this issue. We will have a speaker present who was involved in this decision so please come with questions or concerns you’d like to express. The more the merrier!

   Love,
   USG
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   Hello,

   Our first USG meetings are next week. We will be sure to bring up these concerns in our executive meeting and the council meeting. General council meetings take place on Thursdays at 6pm in Petroleum Hall and are open for anyone to attend! We hope we can help sort out this problem for you guys soon!

   Love,
   USG

   Below are all the details associated with this issue:

   On Thursday, January 15th, Undergraduate Student Government had our first meeting of the semester. The main topic of the evening was Mines Market. With the opening of Mines Market and closure of Slate Café, there were changes in the hours of Digger Den. Mines Market is now open late at night while Digger Den’s hours were cut back. Also the previous to go option where students were allowed to grab anything Slate was offering that day was replaced with a to go sandwich with two sides. This has caused a lot of upset with the campus. As a result, USG asked a few staff members involved in this decision making process to come and speak about why this decision was made and take input on how things could be improved. Rebecca Flintoft, VP of Student Life, Gayle Witzke, Campus Dining, and… more

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   Anonymous commented  ·  Jan 10, 2015  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   Yeah this is kinda ridiculous, i'm no crazy health nut but seriously? I can't just eat pizza and I use a majority of my meal swipes after 7pm when i'm working on homework late at night. Bring back digger den, I miss my midnight quesadillas.

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   Anonymous supported this idea  ·  Jan 10, 2015