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The Student Representative Board have passed new bylaws: The number of representatives will be based on the percentage of the voting population of each represented population. i. If 0.0-9.99% of the represented group votes in the election, there will be 1 representative for that represented group.
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ii. If 10.0-19.9% of the represented group votes in the election, there will be 2 representatives (if enough candidates run) for that represented group. iii. If 20% or greater of the represented group votes in the election, there will be 3 representatives (if enough candidates run) for that represented group.
In the past, each college would be assigned a specific number of representatives from the student population of that college using a formula. The higher the population, the higher number of spots earned on the SRB. With these new bylaws, the number of representative spots earned is now determined by voter turnout.
Ex. The College of Aviation is guaranteed at least one spot on the SRB. If the COA wants a second spot, more than 10% of College of Aviation students must go out and vote regardless of who they vote for. And if they want a third spot, more than 20% of students must go out and vote.
SGA has a Facebook poll to decide the next Van Shuttle stop. The options are Andros Isles and Legacy Apartments. If you want either of these options, go to ERAU Student Government Association, Daytona Beach to vote on Facebook!
Both photos by Alex Lee/The Avion Newspaper
Bravery and Bravado Akash Rathinam Correspondent Every man alive or dead would have heard numerous tales of great deeds and exhibition of bravery. We all grow with a motive and strong will replicate them in our lives. It is true, we all yearn for a moment where we can commit ourselves to a bravado. But does everyone get an opportunity to do that? Do people quench this inert thirst with an apt action? Do we even commit ourselves for a situation like that? Most of us at this point would have thrown our hands in the air and said that we have never. When we ask people about the greatest deed of bravery they have heard, they recollect a mythical story or a distant happening in history. But I strongly believe that it shouldn’t be this way. Every man has around a million chances in life to exhibit the mythical bravery and everyone even exhibits it.
According to the World Health Organization(WHO) around 800,000 people commit suicide, that is 1 person for every 40 seconds. It’s true people get so stressed in life that they tend to take their own life just to ask for a timeout from this turmoil, but they don’t realize that the timeout is forever. Every moment you live, every decision you take, every step you take is the exhibition of bravery. I don’t mean suicide to be an act of cowardice but, just a wrong step on a dark path. Living with challenges, tasks, and difficulties we make ourselves a hero. We may not know but in every moment, we inspire someone. No man’s life is perfect or without any obstacles; everybody has to face these. These obstacles are the ones which are going to decide how brave you at heart. Let us all now remind ourselves that we will commit ourselves to every moment we live and celebrate the hero in us.
New OΔK Members Alex Lee Business Manager The National Leadership Honor Society Omicron Delta Kappa (OΔK) welcomed their newest members this past week during the spring 2019 induction ceremony into the Icarus Circle of OΔK. The newest members were inducted into the honor society through the signing of the OΔK member book that has record of all members inducted into the Icarus Circle of OΔK. After signing the membership record, the newly inducted members receive a certificate of membership as well as a pin they can wear to show their membership in OΔK for recognition of their leadership qualities. OΔK is an honor society that chooses its members based on their qualities that uphold OΔK’s five ideals of Scholarship, Service, Integrity, Character, and Fellowship. Each inducted member has not only shown these ideals, but exemplify them, and thus were chosen to be representatives of
the OΔK honor society. The combination of these five ideals contributes to leadership qualities that OΔK members exemplify. In addition to upholding these five values, members are known for their demonstration of leadership in at least one of five phases of campus life. These include Scholarship, Athletics, Campus or Community Service, Journalism or Mass Media, and the Creative or Performing Arts. These five phases are where OΔK draws their exceptional members proving their capabilities as leaders. Each year the officers of the Icarus Circle of OΔK looks for new members among the students of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. For a student to qualify they must be of Junior or Senior standing in the upper 35 percent of their class. The honor society also considers Graduate students, Faculty, Staff, and Administrators. Potential members will be contacted by the Icarus Circle advisor with an invitation to join this prestigious honor society.