SA grants clubs $4,000 for 24-person trip to NYC

BY HAYDEN SADLER Staff Writer

Members of the Student Association recently approved two clubs’ trip to New York City and voted on the statuses of the Cooking Club and Her Campus.

The SA met Wednesday to discuss club funding requests and club status approvals. The Senate first discussed the Student Managed Investment Fund’s as well as the Accounting and Finance Association’s requests for funding for their trip to New York City. Also discussed was the approval of provisional status for the Cooking Club and permanent club status to Her Campus.

The Accounting and Finance Association and the Student Managed Investment Fund each requested $2,000 to fund their trip to New York City. The clubs will be visiting the New York Stock Exchange and attending networking events. The senate approved the

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The club aims to work with Chartwells, SUNY Plattsburgh’s dining and catering provider, to ensure access to ingredients and supplies for cooking.

The club will hold meetings every other week, and prospective members is a big moment for the group focusing on empowering women and encouraging body positivity through writing. Her Campus is an online publication with more than 400 chapters in 11 countries. It has a wide variety of blog articles on the website, published and contributed by students at SUNY Plattsburgh. The publication covers a wide range of topics such as entertainment, academics and mental health.

The senate also unanimously approved Cooking Club’s request for provisional club status. Cooking Club representatives promise to teach students about

Wellness

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Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Allison Heard attended both events. At Bednarchik’s session, she spoke about the importance of education and awareness in preventing sexual violence, stating the goal of her division is to “work ourselves out of a job.”

SUNY Plattsburgh, like any other college or university in New York, is required to mandate consent training for athletes, Greek life members, first-years and transfer students and provide other students opportunities to learn about consent, such as Belrose’s and Bednarchik’s presentations. Students were able to learn about health resources on- and off-campus as well as get a variety of freebies will have to attend the first meeting and take a quiz to assess their knowledge of food safety.

Her Campus receiving permanent club status at the Wellness Fair in the Warren Ballrooms Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Freebies included treats, coloring pages, lip balm, keychains, stickers, skincare masks, sleeping masks and stress balls, which students could get from tables set up by Planned Parenthood, SHCC, Chartwells’ Resident Dietician Sarah Yandow, the Student Assistance Program, University Police and more.

Today, March 3, students can attend a Speed Friending event hosted by mental health counselors Fran Francis and Inga Karpenko at 3 p.m. in the Warren Ballrooms. The event aims to help students with social anxiety through exposure therapy. Students will have two minutes to discuss an assigned question or topic with someone new. The questions are designed to be answered without thinking “too much about it,” Francis said.

“It’s low-pressure, it’s low-stakes,”

Senators reported attending Mardis Gras at Clinton Dining Hall earlier that week and had many positive comments about the Chartwells event. The meeting concluded with the approval of both club status requests as well as funding being granted to the Accounting and Finance Association and Student Managed Investment Fund’s trip.

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Francis said.

The recently established Wellness Consortium planned this Wellness Week’s events with a focus on areas that members thought needed the most attention. Bazzano said his goal is to host Wellness Week, complete with a Wellness Fair, every semester. Wellness Weeks in previous semesters did not have a Wellness Fair, but saw visits from therapy dogs and therapy donkeys. Bazzano co-founded the Wellness Consortium with Director of Campus Housing and Community Living Jim Sherman. The Consortium comprises departments such as Housing, Student Health and Counseling, Athletics, Fraternity and Sorority Life and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, with more departments showing interest.

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