HUSC comes out of hibernation
HUSC meets over J-Term to patch communication lines and plan for spring.
Young Shin Park
Issue date: 2/10/09 Section: News
For the first time in the history of the Hamline archives, HUSC members continued to hold meetings throughout J-Term. Their main objective in doing so was to try to improve internal communication and their connections with the student body, said HUSC president senior Tina VanSteenbergen.
"Students don't stop working over J-Term. Student orgs continue to plan for conferences and that's funding that they get from HUSC. If student orgs don't stop working, there is no reason we should stop working," said VanSteenbergen.
Besides providing resources to help students better communicate with HUSC, they considered January to be a good time to strengthen the internal structure of HUSC by discussing what went well and what went wrong last semester, said VanSteenbergen.
VanSteenbergen also said that all the representatives who made it to the meetings said they felt more connected to Hamline over J-Term.
Public Relations Chair junior Mike Schuster said the meetings mainly covered concerns and resolutions about the MPIRG fee, the upcoming election and budgeting, all in order to make a "smooth transition into the more active spring semester."
From the beginning of her term as president, VanSteenbergen has spoken about her desire to improve certain aspects of HUSC that have proven to be problematic in the past. One of HUSC's main goals last fall was to build a firm line of communication between the members and students, an undertaking which turned out to be not as successful as they intended.
"There were more internal communication issues than we hoped for," said vice-president junior Peter Andrews.
Yet, according to Andrews, they managed to accomplish a lot in spite of certain setbacks with communication.
"I can easily say that the internal communication and communication in general is 100 percent better than was previous year which is largely because communication was essentially nonexistant that year," Andrews said.
"Students don't stop working over J-Term. Student orgs continue to plan for conferences and that's funding that they get from HUSC. If student orgs don't stop working, there is no reason we should stop working," said VanSteenbergen.
Besides providing resources to help students better communicate with HUSC, they considered January to be a good time to strengthen the internal structure of HUSC by discussing what went well and what went wrong last semester, said VanSteenbergen.
VanSteenbergen also said that all the representatives who made it to the meetings said they felt more connected to Hamline over J-Term.
Public Relations Chair junior Mike Schuster said the meetings mainly covered concerns and resolutions about the MPIRG fee, the upcoming election and budgeting, all in order to make a "smooth transition into the more active spring semester."
From the beginning of her term as president, VanSteenbergen has spoken about her desire to improve certain aspects of HUSC that have proven to be problematic in the past. One of HUSC's main goals last fall was to build a firm line of communication between the members and students, an undertaking which turned out to be not as successful as they intended.
"There were more internal communication issues than we hoped for," said vice-president junior Peter Andrews.
Yet, according to Andrews, they managed to accomplish a lot in spite of certain setbacks with communication.
"I can easily say that the internal communication and communication in general is 100 percent better than was previous year which is largely because communication was essentially nonexistant that year," Andrews said.
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