Point of Information 2/7/2024
Welcome back to Senate! This email (the "POI") serves as a recap of all of the information we covered during each Senate to keep you and the Northeastern study body as up-to-date as possible!
MEETING RECAP
This week we had our first Legislative Senate of the semester!
This week we transitioned to paper addresses to make Senate more efficient. You can view the leadership addresses here.
Leadership applications are due TONIGHT (2/9) at 11:59pm! The link is available here. Reach out to the listed contact with any questions.
Note: we encourage everyone to apply to these positions, regardless of SGA or other experience levels!
RETURNING SENATORS please fill out this Senate feedback form as soon as you can.
This will be used to determine engagement hour requirements, senator bonding, etc. It is anonymous and every question is optional.
Last chance Senators to fill out the Senate Name Pronunciation form
Please continue adding to our Co-op database.
Our slide deck is accessible here. This has all the info we went over and contacts for leadership!
SGA ANNOUNCEMENTS
STEP (New Senator Training) is MANDATORY for all new Senators. If you are a new senator, you should have gotten an email with further information. The sessions will be held in the next 2 weeks on the following dates:
2/13 6:00-7:30pm 109 Robinson
2/20 6:30-7:30pm 109 Robinson
All members of SGA please complete the internal communications survey here for the operations team!
Come watch the final round Beanpot watch party on Monday at 7:30pm. RSVP here. 🏒 🐾
Wellness Week is coming up, it will be March 11th-15th! Help SGA in our various tabling events by signing up on tabling spreadsheet here
Note: time & date for harm reduction event not finalized
The Holistic Wellness Working Group is still looking for representatives from the LatinX center, John O’Bryant Center, Husky-to-Husky, and the LGBTQ+ center. Please reach out to ciummo.f@northeastern.edu if you would like to be involved.
If you have any personal belongings in the SGA Office, please remove them for the day of Saturday, February 10th or let Olivia Oestreicher (oestreicher.o@northeastern.edu) know. We will be gutting the room and potentially discarding your items if they are not removed!
CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
"Living Off Campus Workshops" are being hosted by Off Campus Engagement and Support. Registration and more information can be found here.
The workshop will be held on February 28th, 11am-12pm ET via Zoom
If you missed the off-camps event this week you can email katz.gr@northeastern.edu for the slides!
UPCOMING MEETINGS
Next week's Senate is CANCELED. The next week's Senate will be a working Senate on Wednesday 2/21 at 6:30 pm. Attendance for this meeting will be counted as any other meeting. Meaning, you must fill out the attendance form at the bottom of this email if you cannot attend.
The Senate calendar can be accessed here. Please reach out to Speaker Donoghue (Sgasenatespeaker@northeastern.edu) if you would like to see anything added to the Senate calendar. This includes but is not limited to, legislation, events, and guest speakers!
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