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Volume 15, Issue 24
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
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“I think her and I have such unique backgrounds; we each have different strengths,” White said. “Also, with Jamar too, we just make a great team.” White’s platform consists of four major categories: enhancing campus community, improving university life, building tradition and increasing transparency. Highlights of FGCU Fusion Party’s platform include holding a 20-day
UPD arrested and charged FGCU international student Sofiene Azabou with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and stalking on Sunday, Feb. 19. According to the arrest report, Azabou and the victim began dating in early January and after a week; the relationship quickly became mentally and physically abusive. One night, after asking the victim about her dating history, Azabou became extremely angry and left to go out drinking, demanding his ex-girlfriend to stay in the dorm. When he returned, Azabou was intoxicated and grabbed a BB gun off of the counter and pointed it at the victims’ head and pulled the trigger, not knowing if it was loaded or not. According to the
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(Left) EN Photo / Brad Young (right) photo courtesy of Emmalyn Green Campaigning for Student Government elections began at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21. Jalisa White (left) is running for Student Body President with the FGCU Fusion Party while Emmalyn Green (right) is running with FGCU Eagle Pride. Both parties began tabling on the library lawn on Tuesday.
By Taylor Crehan News Editor @taylorjeangenie Just after midnight on Tuesday, Feb. 21, members of the FGCU Fusion Party as well as FGCU Eagle Pride met at the Student Plaza, signaling the announcement of the new Student Government parties. FGCU Fusion Party candidates came in a large group, cheering and hyping one another up, while a select few members of FGCU Eagle Pride gathered at the Student Plaza to hang their promotional banner.
For the 2017-18 school year, the role of Student Body President will either go to current SG Secretary junior Jalisa White with Fusion or current Student Body Vice President senior Emmalyn Green with Pride. White decided to run because she feels that there is a current lack of prioritizing students within SG. “I feel like there is so much more we could be doing for the students,” White said. White is especially passionate about increasing transparency
between students and administration. “It’s directly effecting the students,” White said. “It’s important for us as Student Government to bridge that gap.” White’s running mates include Vice President Antonia Jacobse and Treasurer Jamar Powell. White said that she chose to campaign with these students because she has seen how hard they work and how dedicated they are. White noticed a passion for serving students in Jacobse “since day one.”
SG makes steps toward deeming FGCU a sanctuary campus By Taylor Crehan News Editor @taylorjeangenie
EN Photo / Kim Smith Student Government Senate President Jason Finan addresses senators during an SG meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 10 in Cohen Center room 247.
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In the midst of President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, members of FGCU’s Student Government discussed SG Resolution 1617-002, Mutual Respect, a resolution that could potentially make FGCU a sanctuary campus, during their meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 21. Sanctuary campuses, modeled after sanctuary cities, help shield undocumented students from being deported. The resolution, which was presented to senators in first reading on Tuesday, Feb. 14, focused on respecting other students and the diversity included on campus. “In our deliberations, we respect each other and diversity, we support
mutual respect for diversity and people of other backgrounds,” the resolution said. According to a Fusion report, students from over 100 campuses have signed petitions demanding that their schools become sancturaries. Garrette Parsons, the SG Appropriations Chair, verbally expressed her support of the resolution to her peers during the meeting. “We keep saying that we’re going to do this, so I want us to do this,” Parsons said. “I don’t want us to pass this and not do anything about it. If we say that we’re going to look into stuff and actually do things, we need to do it.” Sen. Antonia Jacobse also expressed her desire to pass the resolution. “I think we all understand the importance of this bill,” Jacobse said.
“Moving forward, as the previous senator said, yes, this is a step, but it’s only a first step.” Jacobse went on to describe the resolution as a foundation for a more inclusive FGCU. This is the foundation of that environment of inclusicity and diversity that our school was founded on,” Jacobse said. Upon first vote, the resolution didn’t pass. After being ammended, however, it passed. “It’s our responsability as senators and as the representatives of every single student on campus regardless of background, regardless of anything,” Jacobse said. “We are representatives of every student.”
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