The Student Government Association Senate met in a different location Tuesday night at the Lanier Auditorium of the Texas Tech School of Law.
Sarah Saunders, president of the Student Senate, said the SGA meeting was hosted at the law school to promote friendly relations between the Tech SGA and the Tech Student Bar Association.
The SGA will visit the location for Student Senate meetings once per year with the passage of Senate Bill 45.09. The bill is intended to help continue to foster relations between the two associations.
Senate Resolution 45.20, authored by Sen. Tyler Patton, will put several new trash cans around the south side of Memorial Circle.
Several students came to him to discuss the increasing amounts of litter around the Administration building and proposed putting in the new trash receptacles, he said. No trash cans are located in close proximity of the sidewalks frequented by students around the south side of Memorial Circle.
The resolution passed, but the SGA Campus Infrastructure Committee will need to host several meetings with Tech administrators before the trash cans are implemented. Patton said he expects to see the new trash cans in place soon.
Senate Resolution 45.24, also authored by Patton, requires all emergency blue phone locations on campus to be included on the latest campus transportation maps to increase student awareness of the locations.
Patton said the maps are two to three years old and do not reflect all emergency blue phone locations on campus. The new maps would be distributed to new students at the beginning of each school year.
Senate Resolution 45.17, which was sent to the Transportation Committee last week for further discussion, experienced a setback. Sen. Olivia Chriss, the author of the resolution, said the section of road in which a crosswalk was supposed to be created is property of the city of Lubbock.
The crosswalk would be located between Boston Avenue and Canton Avenue, adjacent from the bus stop on Drive of Champions Avenue. Chriss said the crosswalk can still be established but will need city approval in conjunction with SGA approval.
She said she is hopeful the crosswalk will be put in place before the end of the spring semester.
This weekend the Tech SGA will be hosting a conference for the student governments of Big 12 Conference schools.
Sen. Mac Smith said the group of associations will discuss state legislation in support of higher education and encourage growth of the Big 12.
Each school in the Big 12 usually sends the executive board and several additional representatives to the conference, he said. The conference will be hosted on campus at the Student Union Building and representatives of other universities will be hosted at the Overton Hotel.
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