Bwog’s Engineering Expert Aria Sharma reports from this week’s meeting. President Tim Qin started this week’s meeting off by relaying information from his meeting with Scott Wright, VP of Campus Services. The package centers are fully updated, complete with kiosks and satellite locations in Wien and Carman to make picking up packages more efficient. Furthermore, […]

Update: A commenter says that FTFs are actually part of LionLink, not ARC. We’re not sure the distinction matters, but there you go. Bwog’s new ESC correspondent, Aria Sharma, files this report from a relatively quiet meeting last night. New E-forms: Siddhant Bhatt, VP of Finance, introduced ARC (Accounting and Reporting at Columbia), a financial […]

As part of the ongoing efforts to alleviate the impact of moving the GS Class Day a day earlier, the other three undergraduate student councils have pledged some money ($2,012: what a random amount!) toward funding a reception for GS seniors on May 14th, the originally planned date of the ceremony. Solidarity! According to sources, […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from the final ESC meeting of the year. The ESC passed a resolution to limit sophomores from mixed-point groups, who drop down into general selection, from picking into Furnald. This year, no sophomores who were not in a mixed-point group were able to choose into Furnald. The discussions focused only on Furnald […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from last night’s ESC meeting. A intro programming course, ENGI E1006, will be added next fall. The class will replace COMS W1004 as the fundamental intro programming course for 11 of the 16 engineering departments, starting next fall. Unlike W1004, the class will be taught in the python programming language instead of […]

Results are in from the ESC, SGA, and CCSC elections.  Voting just ended at 5 today and here are the winners: CCSC Executive Board Karishma Habbu (President) Will Hughes (VP Policy) Jared Odessky (VP Communications) Daphne Chen (VP Finance) Yanyi Luo (VP Campus Life) ESC Executive Board Tim Qin (President) Bora Kim (VP Policy) Caroline […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from last night’s ESC meeting. ESC representatives explained that there was a glitch in the CCSC election website that allowed students to vote for any class council, instead of limiting them to voting only on their own year’s candidates. ESC says that the bug did not affect ESC elections, and they suspect […]

Having attended yesterday evening’s CCSC policy meeting, good citizen Sarah Ngu brings us this week’s student government greatest hits list.  What is cookin’ in Council CCSC’s and ESC’s Policy Committees, which are responsible for changing stuff, sat around and talked about: – how to address the rise of cheating scandals – small meal plans for […]

Ladies and Gentlemen, your candidates for 2012-2013 Engineering Student Council. Campaigning officially begins today, so prepare to feel valued like never before. Voting will open next week at 9 am on Monday, April 2nd, and will continue until 5 pm on Thursday, April 5th. Also keep in mind that the candidates’ forum will be held […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from last night’s ESC meeting. The council has begun uploading agendas and council member attendance records to the ESC website. VP Communications Jim Huang explained that this will enable students to keep up with the council’s plans and allow students to check that their representatives are not slacking off. The council announced […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from last night’s ESC meeting. The council voted to yesterday to extend the campaigning period until the end of voting. Previously, students running for student government were not allowed to campaign after the start of voting. However, regulating personal Facebook messages and other social media became burdensome for the council. Some council […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from last night’s ESC meeting. The majority of the meeting was spent discussing the new election bylaws of the ESC constitution. As reported last year, the ESC will begin holding public e-board elections this year. Under the changes, the members of the senior class council will choose one of its members to […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from last night’s ESC meeting. Dean Rinere of the Student Advising Center spoke to the council, addressing concerns students had brought up about their advisers being switched. Rinere explained that when students enter SEAS, they are assigned an advisor based on their declared “likely” major. If a student proceeds to declare a […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from last night’s ESC meeting. SEAS Dean Pena-Mora attended last night’s ESC meeting. The Dean began by thanking ESC for their letter in support of his administration, which the council sent to the Spectator last December. Pena-Mora pledged to “continue to ensure that you [all] have the best education experience that anyone could […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from the first ESC meeting of the semester. The council began the evening by holding elections for VP Communications. The election was well-contested, especially considering it was held mid-year. The winner, Jim Huang, spoke about his experience on ABC and how his experience developing websites could help in council outreach. He beat […]