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The school year is drawing to a close, and Bureau Chief Joseph Milholland is back to bring you news on the latest resolutions from General Studies Student Council.

The General Studies Student Council gave updates on two resolutions on Tuesday night. Comptroller (and the next VP of Finance) Dalitso Nkhoma had the council approve some changes to the Bacchanal resolution, which puts the committee’s financial decisions in the hands of the four undergrad VPs of finance. The changes ensure that students will not be charged for tickets to Bacchanal and that students will be informed of ticket sales at least a month before the sales begin. Student councils will continue to work on this resolution.

VP of Policy Elizabeth Heyman also had updates on the add/drop resolution, which proposes pushing back the add/drop date to the fifth week of classes for GSSC students. Dean Awn is trying to join the resolution with CCSC’s resolution for changes in the add/drop date. Deans from Columbia College want their academic calender to match GS’s academic calender, so they are pressuring CCSC to merge their resolution with GSSC’s resolution. Becasue GS students pay by credit, they want to move their change of program date from two weeks into the semester to five weeks. If the resolution goes forward along with the CCSC resolution, the last date to withdraw from classes for GS students would also likely be pushed back; however, GSSC is still waiting on what the CC deans have to say about this.

Update:

• GSSC President Peter Nason said that Lerner admins were “receptive” to the council’s input on changes to the first-floor computer lab from last week.
• According to Usenator Katherin Celentano, some people have signed up to do research on gyms at peer instiutions for the current project to do renovations and improvements at Dodge Gym.
• VP of Communications Donna Askari hopes to have GSSC’s new website finished this week.

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