Archive for February, 2008

2007-2008 SGA Accomplishments… so far
February 27, 2008

We have accomplished a lot this year but we still have a long way to go with some of our initiatives. SGA hopes to make some big announcements in the coming weeks regarding Google Apps and a few other things… but here is a short list of things so far:

SGA Accomplishments in 2007-2008
·        Following Up [...]

Football Committee Report Released
February 27, 2008

Fully available at the Chancellor’s Website
Dig in!
The best part of the whole report is Mac Everett’s letter to the Chancellor Mac Everett, former Wachovia exec and former UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees chair headed up the football committee.
One of my favorite excerpts from the letter (maybe hard to see because the columnar format of this [...]

Friday and Spangler’s Arguments Against Football Result in Nothing But Media Attention
February 22, 2008

49er football opponents speak out – News 14
NinerNation.net 
Football at UNCC? – Charlotte Observer

Football at UNC Charlotte, Why Not?- WBTV

Former UNC System Presidents Present Antiquated Views of College Football
February 22, 2008

Former UNC System Presidents, Bill Friday and Dick Spangler spoke to the UNC Charlotte Faculty Council on Thursday February 21st to try and raise up the faculty against the Chancellor as he makes his decision on adding a football program. But, unfortunately for them, the public participation period of the process is over. There were [...]

Campus Dining Uses Local Foods Extensively, We Just Didn’t Know About It
February 20, 2008

Sometimes we get to sit down with one of the departments on campus to request something and we are just blown away. When SGA Secretary of Sustainability John Avery and I sat down with Campus Recycling and Chartwells Food Service to talk about local foods in UNC Charlotte dining, we had the opportunity to have [...]

University of Arizona is Having Some Problems with its SGA
February 17, 2008

It is always interesting to compare our institution to other institutions but even more specifically, one of the best things that SGA can do to improve is to look at how other SGAs operate… and in SGA we are always doing that. But sometimes we come across an SGA that is so bad and so [...]

I Respectfully Disagree, Football Helps Academics
February 15, 2008

A university is not a big pot of money. Just like our federal government, every dollar that goes into any project or expenditure is earmarked and very few funds go into actual discretionary funding.
That is the point of contention among Charlotte Football proponents and legendary UNC System (the UNC system is different from Chapel Hill… [...]

Students and Administrators Unite for a Safer Campus
February 13, 2008

For the last two years the Student Government Association has worked with campus administrators to plan and execute the Campus Safety Walk where we gather and split into groups that can cover the campus at night to find safety issues. Last nights 3rd annual walk was no let down, as it was well attended and [...]