Archive for the 'Press' Category

Things Could Always Be Worse
March 25, 2008

Best of luck to my colleague at UNC Greensboro. I’m pulling for ya John.
From the UNCG Student Newspaper, the Carolinian:
SGA temporarily loses affiliation, nullifies elections
Stephanie Patton
Issue date: 3/25/08 Section: Campus News

Last week’s SGA Senate meeting was spent discussing issues SGA has recently encountered, including a temporary loss of the group’s affiliation and the nullification of [...]

SGA Transit Tax Debate Gets Some Local Recognition
October 19, 2007

Keith Larson mentioned it on his show yesterday because he saw it in the Charlotte Observer!Secretary of Press and Public Relations, James Burrows, did a good job getting our press release together.

Students Can Form Their Own Opinion
October 15, 2007

The UNC Charlotte Student Government Association has recently been accused of “violating state laws” because of the fact that the SGA Senate formulated and published an opinion on the transit tax issue in Mecklenburg County.
County Commissioner Bill James is highly deluded in believing that the UNC Charlotte administration or county officials had anything to [...]

SGA Campus Safety Study Released
October 12, 2007

After a summer of putting it together and a few months of working out the final kinks, we released our Campus Safety report today which will be the baseline of any recommendations that SGA will be making for campus safety over the next few years. As more data is released every year, it is my [...]

Flashback: Charlotte Senate Considers Renaming SGA Complex the Colbert Complex
October 2, 2007

Feb 16th 2007: NewsBusters which “Exposes and Combats Liberal Media Bias” posts an analysis of the Spring 2007 SGA resolution calling for the Cone 369 SGA Complex to be renamed the Stephen Colbert Student Government Complex. The resolution passed but was later vetoed by Student Body President Ben Comstock after much deliberation. From the NewsBusters [...]

Decision on ASG Leads to Attention Across State
September 28, 2007

Our recent decision to publicly voice concern with ASG has started to draw serious attention across the state. Hopefully this attention will lead to serious reform. For the Appalachian Online, Nick Ianniello covers this story:

“ASG is just a huge drain of money right now for basically zero results,” UNCC SGA President W. Justin Ritchie said.
“I [...]