ASG
Chair of Senate Starts with Senate Policies
Newly elected Chair of Senate Amy West discussed changes that will take place in the upcoming year, including both structural and policy changes within the ASG Senate. “My main project for next year has been working at restructuring the Senate,” …
Renner Ticket Wins the ASG Executive Elections
Bo Renner and Ellie Keffler have won the positions of president and vice president in the Associated Student Government by a margin of 455 votes. Renner and Keffler received 2,854 votes, while Will Simpson and Ellen Rudolph received 2,399. “It …
Scantron Proposal Discussed
Tuesday night, ASG proposed a bill to permanently provide testing materials for students. More than 90 percent of students who responded enjoyed having Scantrons and Blue Books provided for them last semester, according to a recent ASG Student Poll. The …
Voting Begins to Elect New ASG Leaders
RENNER TICKET Presidential Candidate Bo Renner’s ASG experience includes serving as an ASG senator, chairman of Transit and Parking, and chairman of the Walton College of Business Caucus. “Dad told me at a young age that there are plenty of …
Committee Chooses Spring Performer
John Legend has accepted an offer with the UA Distinguished Lectures Committee to perform April 29 at Barnhill Arena. Legend has verbally accepted the offer but has not yet signed an official contract, said Autumn Lewis, chairwoman of the Distinguished …
2013 Executive Interviews
Presidential Candidates: Bo Renner Will Simpson Vice-Presidential Candidates: Ellen Rudolph Ellie Keffler Treasurer Candidates: Matt Chaffin Will Strickland Stewart Pence Secretary Candidates: Drew Blythe Lindsey Bach
ASG Delays Voting on Parking Legislation
ASG will vote on a bill next week to introduce a more consistent warning system for first-time parking violations. The current warning system runs on a case-by-case basis, and this makes it really difficult to for warnings to be issued …
High-Tech Digital Kiosks Set to Appear around Campus
When members of the Student Technology Committee and Associated Student Government saw a deficit in the connection students had to campus, they turned to a new, high-tech and innovative solution — digital kiosks. Tony Cosgrove, the primary student pioneer of …
ASG Receives Student Opinions for Possible Future Initiatives
About 3,600 students took the poll this year, said Tori Pohlner, ASG president. Questions for the poll came from ASG executives, cabinet members and senators. There were 115 questions in total, but some answers determined how many questions each student …
ASG Unanimously Passes Impeachment Process
ASG voted unanimously to pass a bill to revise the current impeachment process for ASG members. There have been complaints in the past that the current impeachment process is too vague, said Sen. Amy West, author of the bill. If …
ASG Proposes New Impeachment Process
This year, the UA and the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department are preparing for a $9 million project to widen Razorback Road to four lanes, facilities management officials said. The construction of these additional lanes will start at the …
ASG Supports Gun Free UA Campus
ASG senators voted against legislation Tuesday night that would allow UA faculty and staff who have concealed-carry permits to carry guns on campus, hours after the state approved a proposal to allow concealed carry weapons on campuses. The student senators …
RIC Might Add Hillside Seating
RIC has proposed to allocate money to help ASG pay for 3 tables that will be placed outside of Hillside Auditorium. The three tables with be made of stone or concrete and will cost about $4,500, said Onnissia Harries, RIC …
Legislation Questioned After Shooting, Forum
Less than four hours before a citywide open forum in which gun legislation was discussed, a UA student was injured after accidentally shooting himself in the hand at the KUAF radio station in Fayetteville, bringing to attention recent state and …
ASG Senators Introduce On Campus Concealed Carry Bills
Associated Student Government senators continued the ongoing concealed-carry-on-campus debate last night with the proposal of two pro-concealed-carry bills and an opposing proposal that supports the UA’s current policy that makes the UA campus a gun-free zone. One of the two …
