In a tight vote of 11 ayes and 9 nays on Wednesday afternoon, the Student Association (SA) Senate postponed the creation of a Senate advocacy committee to next Wednesday, during the last Senate meeting of the Fall 2024 semester, due to disagreements over who would be the committee’s chairperson.
Four Student Association (SA) senators — Riya Gaikwad, Laibah Ahmed, Dilasha Thapa and Nicholas Bausch — resigned their positions, leaving only 19 filled seats out of 23 total in SA Senate. SA opened applications to fill the vacant seats in an Instagram post Tuesday afternoon.
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham gave a talk on the Center of the Arts (CFA) mainstage Wednesday night about American democracy, history and the upcoming presidential election to kick off UB’s ‘24-25 Distinguished Speakers Series.
Before his Distinguished Speakers Series presentation, Meacham sat down with The Spectrum Wednesday night to weigh in on the importance of voting, the “compelling” stakes of the 2024 presidential election and why learning from the past matters.
Over the past week, voters elected seven senators to fill 12 open seats. The Spectrum reached out to all seven elected senators to ask about their previous experiences, policy platforms and goals. Six out of those seven senators agreed to an interview.
Solutions by The State News
