Read about the “suicide planet,” headed straight for the sun.
See EXOPLANET page 3
The Charger Bulletin Volume 88, Issue 02 | September 2, 2009 www.ChargerBulletin.com The official student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938.
Debating global warming with President Kaplan, a movie, and a slice of pizza.
See KAPLAN page 4
USGA: Undergraduate Student...What!?
By DESHAWN MCGREGOR USGA SERGEANT AT ARMS
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The Undergraduate Student Government Association is a student-run organization, charged with the duty of being the voice of the students. Better known as USGA, it has grown tremendously over a short period of time. Working alongside the Office of Student Activities and the Dean of Students’ Office, USGA has played a crucial part in facilitating the formation of many of the clubs and organizations currently on campus. USGA serves as an umbrella for these clubs, providing them with financial assistance as well as networking opportunities. This assistance allows the clubs and organization to hold concerts, comedy nights, lectures, films, carA SAM CLAVER/CHARGER BULLETIN PHOTO nivals, and a variety of A student signs up for a club at the annual Clubs and Organizations Fair on Tuesdays, August 25, 2009. 80 clubs and organizations were present (over 55% were USGAother social and cultural recognized clubs), as were a half dozen vendors. events. The club fair and student leadership conferences are examples of events that the USGA holds each year; yet Although venerated for his trious attempts at reform. However, he is survived by it assists with many others By ANGELA EKLUND STAFF WRITER arduous efforts to expand There is still work to be the capable man whom he including Welcome Week, ––––––––––––––––––––– access to proper health done, despite his success endorsed during the 2008 Homecoming, and many care and for his patience in improving the rights of presidential election, to seothers. USGA continues to One of the most cel- in education development, America’s women, mi- cure that his voice would grow each year along with the increasing magnitude ebrated photographs in the Kennedy passed too early norities, gays, immigrants not have been in vain. The championed PresiJohn F. Kennedy Presi- to witness the fruits of his and the disabled during of the student body. With this growth, the dential Library depicts the labor. Last Tuesday, this his long years of service. dent Barack Obama now USGA intends on imple- Kennedy brothers at the esteemed politician suc- Education has yet to expe- stands in the wake of Amermenting new initiatives, White House a year after cumbed to the late stages rience the growth that bud- ica’s loss, informing citito help the organization Senator Edward Kennedy of what began as a dismal ding countries like China zens that Kennedy’s, “ideas be more efficient. One of took office in 1962. Presi- cancer diagnosis, leaving have already made possi- and ideals are stamped on these initiatives is the radi- dent Kennedy to his left behind much more than ble, and a universal health scores of laws and reflectcal change in the nature of and Attorney General Rob- the dozens of signatures care plan has stalled in ed in millions of lives… USGA’s committees. This ert Kennedy to his right, scrawled in support of a Congress while legislators in seniors who know new avoid producing yet anoth- dignity, in families that year, the committees will Ted took this photograph changing America. His death has come at a er failed attempt that would know new opportunity, in be taking a more proac- with a confident smile, a tive approach to assisting comforting gesture that time when legislators are most likely send America’s children who know educastudents with their issues; would reappear in times of just beginning to facilitate future generations plum- tion’s promise, and in all triumph as well as ordeal. change based on his indus- meting deeper into debt. See USGA page 2 See KENNEDY page 7
America Mourns the Passing of Progressive Senator and Activist