Twenty-two seats are open in the Student Senate for the Student Government elections on Dec. 3-4.

Party and candidate ballots will be announced at tonight’s Student Senate meeting.

Student Body President Cole Rogers confirmed the Student United Party is not the only party running within Student Government.

Student Senate only has two official meetings left this semester, and will not be meeting during the Wednesday of finals week.

The University Board’s Mainstage and spring events proposals have not been approved by the Apportionment Board yet, which means the events can’t be proposed a week ahead of time for tonight’s meeting. That gives UB one day at getting its events approved.

UB’s plans for next semester’s Special Events to cost $25,000 and current costs for Mainstage are $10,980.

The Mainstage and Special Events plans will be presented to Student Senate tonight to emulate what proposing them ahead of time would be like.

Leah Pietraszewski, student vice president for business affairs, knows that the events have a tight timetable to be approved, but she acknowledges the importance of not trying to approve so many costs at the last minute.

“It wouldn’t be right to present legislation to the senate at the last minute asking for so much money,” Pietraszewski said. “We’re going to give [UB] a chance to speak in audience participation to give the senate a heads-up on the costs ahead of time, so we have time to discuss it.”

If AB approves both proposals on Thursday, the events will be made emergency legislation for the final Student Senate meeting on Dec. 5.

Staff members working to update the Electronic Writing Portfolio will also be visiting Student Senate tonight to give a presentation on their remediation changes.

The remediation proposal would allow students who failed their EWP submission twice to pass as long as they took certain classes to flag them as approved.

Student senate also will be reviewing new bylaws for the Suicide Awareness Initiative Committee, as a part of making it an ad-hoc committee to Student Senate.

Student Senate member Jeff Melanson, who founded and chaired the committee, said he’s heard hardly any opposition to the bylaws so far.