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By Kourtney Husnick Cleveland State University’s Student Government Association elections are still scheduled for online voting starting today, March 31, through April 2 in the VikesConnect portal. The Board of Elections emailed current students a link to vote at approximately 9:30 a.m. The BOE added several videos to their Facebook page with information from executive …
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By Savannah Lewis The Center of International Services and Programs (CISP) and the Student Government Association (SGA) hosted International Education Day on Nov. 26. This event was held to celebrate International Education Week, which was from Nov. 18-22. Due to scheduling reasons, CISP and SGA had to hold the program after the known time to …
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By Claudia Ugbana and Kourtney Husnick Cleveland State University charges students a general fee of $55.40 per credit hour, totalling to approximately $664.80 per semester as part of full-time tuition. Past the breakdown of the default tuition rate, a variety of fees are added later, some of which students do not utilize or understand what …
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By The Editorial Board It is our right as students to establish and elect a democratic student government. However, for the second year in a row, Cleveland State University’s Student Government Association (SGA) has hijacked that process. SGA limited the application opportunities solely to students they already knew and “saw fit” for the open treasurer …
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By Kourtney Husnick Cleveland State University’s Student Government Association (SGA) finished the replacement process for their treasurer position Aug. 30, filling an empty executive board seat without following their constitution’s guidelines for the second academic year in a row. The spring SGA election’s winning executive board ticket lost their treasurer candidate over the summer and …
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By Kourtney Husnick After a week-long delay, the Board of Elections (BOE) released the Student Government Association (SGA) election results on Friday, April 12 at the SGA senate meeting. The results were supposed to be announced Friday, April 5, but were delayed due to “alleged campaign violations” that the BOE was investigating at the time, …
By: Kourtney Husnick After discovering inconsistencies between the Cleveland State University Student Government Association’s (SGA) current constitutional update process and the organization’s acting constitution in The Cauldron’s last issue, The Cauldron launched an in-depth investigation into the practices of SGA under its recognized constitution, operations manual and position descriptions. As previously reported, the Investigation and …
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By Kourtney Husnick As Cleveland State University’s Student Government Association (SGA) elections inched closer to voting week, the Board of Elections (BOE) hosted their annual executive board debate on Friday, March 22. Hosted in the Urban Building atrium, candidates for all three executive board parties answered questions presented by the BOE chair, Kelsey Allen, who …
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By Kourtney Husnick Cleveland State University’s Student Government Association (SGA) changed the way senator projects are done this semester. Previously, each SGA senator was expected to complete an individual project serving their respective student community. Past senator projects have included the textbook drive, creating a multi-faith room and supplying science sets to the Michael Schwartz …
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By Chau Tang The Student Government Association had a meeting on Friday Oct 6 to talk about updates pertaining to student inclusion, the most important being the new parking partnership. Before there was any new information about parking, Councilman TJ Dow — a representative of Ward 7, an area that includes the historic Hough …
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