Mary Hierholzer ’16 With a mere self-portrait, Becky Orcutt ’16 won the favor of a role model artist and landed herself an art show in Alaska. The aspiring artist entered her work in the University of Alaska Anchorage’s (UAA) 27th annual “No Big Heads” self-portrait contest. Out of 85 submissions, Orcutt’s colored pencil piece, “Breath,” [...]
By Chris O’Connell ’13 In a discussion spanning three separate forum meetings, Gordon College Men’s Ministry has been seeking additional funding from GCSA. Men’s Ministry first approached GCSA at their Oct. 10 meeting with a budget of $3,048.50. Men’s Ministry already receives a budget of $500 from the chapel office. Men’s Ministry leader Grant Goodenough [...]
By Chris O’Connell ’13 GCSA is still hard at work on their upcoming application for mobile devices. According to a recent study by Nielson group, 55.5% of cell phone users in the U.S. own a smartphone. Gordon College currently has no application designed specifically for smartphones. “(Applications) seems like an easy way to access news, [...]
By Chris O’Connell ’13 The new representatives make this year’s GCSA forum the most skewed towards male participation in “recent memory.” The forum is roughly 78% male while the Executive cabinet is roughly 80% female. In other news, GCSA has been hard at work on an application for mobile devices. The application is designed to [...]
By Chris O’Connell ’13 ot formally met as an association. They will meet on Wednesday nights at 8:00 P.M. in Macdonald 109. President Ben Wright encourages Gordon students to get in contact with GCSA representatives with any concerns, initiatives and comments. GCSA will be holding their annual fall elections on September 18 for the positions [...]
By Jack Hanke ’15 It’s budget season, and GCSA is in the final stages of determining how to fund the school’s four publications, eight agencies, and 22 clubs. Clubs with large or poorly spent budgets are being audited, budget reforms are being debated, and last-minute initiatives are being pushed through. GCSA has also approved the [...]
By Jack Hanke ’15 Recent GCSA forum meetings have been largely consumed with fierce debate over internal issues, including whether student reps should be able to meet together outside the public eye. The April 4 forum was primarily focused on whether student representatives should be allowed to meet together in private “rep meetings,” and whether [...]
By Jack Hanke ’15 Like so many other government bodies, GCSA is in a budget hole. Its club contingency fund has dwindled to its current value of approximately $12,000, and while this is technically a surplus, GCSA has spent tens of thousands of dollars from that fund since August, most of it going to clubs [...]
By Jack Hanke ’15 On GCSA’s Feb. 22 Forum meeting the student government discussed budget increases for the Computer Science Club and an idea for creating a clothing-swap agency on campus. Speaker of the House Chris Gavrielidis ‘14 also proposed a revision of GCSA’s constitutional bylaws, while the Student Venues Council (SVC) and Vox Populi [...]
By Jack Hanke ’15 There were two objectives put forth at the Feb. 8 forummeeting: to discuss suspending the bylaw provision that allows write-in candidates to run in GCSA elections, and to discuss replacing retired junior representative Virginia O’Neill ‘13 with Lee Andrews ‘13. The forum asked Andrews several questions, inquiring about his previous experience [...]