External Relations Chair Drew Griffin moved to convene the Committee on Constitutional Oversight at Wednesday night’s Student Senate meeting.

The vote to convene the committee passed with a vote of 17-1.

“Any student interested in serving on the committee must submit their name and say they want to be on the Committee for Constitutional Oversight,” Griffin said. “They must get this information to Student Senate Speaker Isaac Sandidge within the next two weeks.”

Griffin wanted to convene the committee as soon as possible.

Also at the meeting, two more members of Student Supreme Court came up to introduce themselves.

These two members were Marsheela Stinson and Quentin Frazier.

“I wanted to be on Student Supreme Court to help make changes,” Stinson said. “In general, I am interested in the actual Supreme Court and maybe, someday, I will actually be able to serve there.”

Frazier sees this as an opportunity to serve a higher entity other than Student Government.

“I wanted to be part of the third branch of government that hasn’t been implemented in about ten years,” he said.

Student Body President Levi Bulgar still has five more applications to look through and two more positions to fill. He said he would probably have the whole court finished by next Wednesday.

Furthermore, Dan Nadler, vice president for student affairs, talked about the construction for the new textbook rental on Edgar Drive.

He said the total cost was about $4.3 million to $4.4 million, with the construction costs being $2.9 million.

“We are excited about the design process,” Nadler said. “Hopefully, the Board of Trustees will approve construction for the building a week from Thursday.”

The construction would then break down in December and take 10 to 12 months to be finished.

There would then be a ceremony for the new building whenever it is finished.

In old business, the line item transfer for University Board marketing passed unanimously with Student Senate, just as it had with Apportionment Board.

The transfer was for $1,400 to be moved from student payroll to printing.

The proposal for election costs also passed unanimously with Student Senate.

$200 for printing supplies such as flyers, posters, sandwich boards and ads and $311 for office supplies such as ballots were covered with this proposal.

Student Senate has nine off-campus, nine on-campus and three at-large positions open. Elections will take place in December.

Heather Holm can be reached at 581-7942 or at haholm@eiu.edu.

Vice President for Student Affairs Dan Nadler speaks to the Student Senate about the plans and proposed cost for the new Textbook Rental Building. (Erin Matheny/The Daily Eastern News)

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