Downtown student government’s Universal Committee will hold its first official meeting today during which the co-chairs hope a discussion with students will help guide the future of the committee.
When universal committees are created on other campuses, they will be the main points of contact among campus governments. The committees’ initial goal will be to try to unite ASU, following ASU President Michael Crow’s vision of “One University in Many Places.”
Co-chair of the Downtown committee Jessica Boehm said the committee hopes to officially solidify future goals and plan out the rest of this year at its 4:30 p.m. meeting at Fair Trade Cafe.
Boehm and fellow co-chair Stephanie Avalos said they are always thinking of new ways the Universal Committee can help connect the ASU campuses.
Avalos and Boehm do not yet know how many other Senate members or students are interested in the Universal Committee.
Currently, only five people have said on Facebook that they plan be at the meeting, two of them the co-chairs.
“After this meeting, we’ll have a better idea where everything stands,” Boehm said.
One of the first goals created for the Downtown Universal Committee was to help create universal committees on the three other campuses by Thanksgiving break.
Boehm said the other campuses haven’t made much progress so far despite the presentations and suggestions by herself, Avalos and Downtown student government President Joseph Grossman.
“The Universal Committee is something that has great potential,” Grossman said at the Oct. 21 Senate meeting.
He added that having similar committees on every campus will allow the Universal Committee to have a greater impact on the university as a whole.
Looking forward, Grossman and Boehm said these committees could be the first step to unifying the entire PAC-12 conference.
“I feel like (the committee) can have one of the greatest impacts on the ASU students as a whole,” Senate Leader Zack Lindsay said at the Oct. 7 Senate meeting. “This committee, to me, is very, very, very important.”
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