Gov. Doug Burgum’s budget guidelines, released April 18, outline a $50 million cut to state higher education spending. If implemented, this would cut North Dakota University System funding by a third. Burgum pointed to the State Board of Education…
As the year draws to a close, our current student body President Mason Wenzel and our student body Vice President Katie Mastel highlight their top five accomplishments and a couple of things they wish they had done better. Their…
Chase Grindberg and Marisa Pacella will be North Dakota State’s new student body president and vice present. The results were announced April 5 outside of the student government office in the Memorial Union. Grindberg attributes his ticket’s success to…
All students interested in joining Student Government are invited to submit applications for Senate by Sunday, January 28th, at 11:59pm. Students chosen to serve on Senate will be sworn in February 11th, and commit to serving through April. The application…
Campus, Editorial Board, Local, Opinion, State Board of Higher Ed, Student Government
Dear NDSU Students: Give a Damn
Apr 3, 2017, 8:30 AM 0
Ignorance is easy when all is blissfully well. When campus projects break ground, budgets swell alongside enrollment and a Division-II football team evolves into an FCS powerhouse, contentedness is commonplace. Why worry about systems like student government, the state…
Campus, News, Student Government
Senate Passes Annual Budget, No Cuts to Orgs
Mar 9, 2017, 8:30 AM 0
After heated deliberation Sunday night, North Dakota State’s student government passed its annual budget for the 2018 fiscal year with a vote of 25-3, with three senate members absent from the meeting. Calla Harper, a student senator representing the…
North Dakota State’s Student Government supports cancelling classes the day prior to Thanksgiving. The move passed unanimously in a resolution at the student senate meeting Sunday. The resolution cites it is dangerous for students to be traveling after classes…
Student government met at its weekly Sunday meeting, providing student senators an update of what is happening on campus. Nick Reitan, student government executive commissioner of public relations, said, “Student voting is something that we are really trying to…
Campus, News, State Board of Higher Ed, Student Government
Student Senate Supports Bresciani Extension
Oct 17, 2016, 9:45 AM 0
North Dakota State’s student senate passed a resolution in support of extending NDSU President Dean Bresciani’s contract with a 27-0 vote with two abstaining members at its weekly meeting Sunday. The resolution was not passed without discussion, though. This was…
President Dean Bresciani’s contract extension came into the spotlight during Sunday’s student senate meeting. Members of student government present at the meeting reached a general consensus of support for the extension of President Bresciani’s contract with North Dakota State….