On Monday night, the Student Governing Board voted to elect their new board, as well as to determine new group recognition and to derecognize inactive groups. Their new board is as follows:

Chair: Arjun Kapoor,  CC’09, Amnesty International

Vice-Chair: Jacob Taber, GS-JTS’09, College Democrats & Hillel

Treasurer: Devora Aharon, CC’10, Hillel

Secretary: Jim Downie, CC’10, College Democrats (and Bwog staffer!)

Representatives-at-Large:

Nishi Dedania, SEAS’09, Hindu Students Organization

Charles Dwyer, CC’09, CU International Relations Forum

Sana Khalid, CC’11, MSA, AHIMSA and USINPAC

Aaron Krieger, CC’10, Hillel Executive Board, Gayava, Columbia Queer Alliance

Ali Shafei, CC’10, MSA

Eugenio Suarez, CC’11, Cuban American National Foundation

Elissa Verrilli, BC’11, SEEJ

New groups and groups-no-longer are after the jump—and in keeping with the theme du jour of objectivism, the ill-fated Ayn Rand Discussion Group is one of the latter.

The new groups to the SGB roster include the Burma 88 Coalition (a humanitarian organization), CU Global Medical Brigades, and USINPAC (the US India Political Action Committee). Welcome!

Alastair Shearman, the outgoing SGB Representative-at-large explains to Bwog that groups are only derecognized if they had transferred to another governing board (for instance, ABC) or have been inactive for over two years. “The SGB constitution requires a majority vote of the general body to ratify the Executive Board’s decision to derecognize any group. (see Article VII, Section 3),” explained Shearman. With that in mind, the derecognized groups are as follows: