2008 Woodie Awards
AUSA President reflects on year
Schwarzberg, Cartier say goodbye to AUSA Senate after a year
Megan Kimble
Issue date: 5/22/07 Section: Features
"I get to have time to go to the gym now," said AUSA President Aaron Schwarzberg.
At the end of his term as student body president of AUSA Senate, junior Schwarzberg discussed the changes accomplished in past year and his hopes for the direction of the Senate in the future.
"I want to have really helped, as part of this senate, change the climate on campus. Our focus on campus climate is to create programs that make people feel better about being at DU," said Schwarzberg.
"We focused on implementing programs that affect the campus climate, such as the Crimson Companion program and the Web-cam Program, which are the two that I'm most proud of."
The Crimson Campaign program is for student athletes and leaders who take students with disabilities to sporting events and sit together.
The Web-cam Program is designed to help students abroad stay connected to the campus and their friends and family. Since it is the pilot year, about one in three students going abroad will receive a camera on a first come, first serve basis, and cameras will be set up around campus to keep home close to students.
To assist in this goal of changing campus climate, under his leadership, the Senate created a new position, chair of campus climate on the executive board.
"[The two co-chairs] did a phenomenal job this year. They created an anonymous reporting website so that all students would have a way to explain their frustrations to campus officials, in any aspect of campus life, but mostly geared to [issues of] diversity and discrimination."
Schwarzberg spoke of the changes that he and the 2006-07 Senate initiated.
"All re-licensing processes were changed so that money would be allocated on a per program basis and not in a lump sum amount. We are holding students organizations more accountable [for their] programming," said Schwarzberg.
One such student organization, the Diversity Committee, requested more funds this academic year than ever before, which is, according to Schwarzberg, "an excellent sign that the DU community is concentrated on and excited about hosting programs with diversity and cultural education as an underlying theme," such as programs like Festival of Nations.
At the end of his term as student body president of AUSA Senate, junior Schwarzberg discussed the changes accomplished in past year and his hopes for the direction of the Senate in the future.
"I want to have really helped, as part of this senate, change the climate on campus. Our focus on campus climate is to create programs that make people feel better about being at DU," said Schwarzberg.
"We focused on implementing programs that affect the campus climate, such as the Crimson Companion program and the Web-cam Program, which are the two that I'm most proud of."
The Crimson Campaign program is for student athletes and leaders who take students with disabilities to sporting events and sit together.
The Web-cam Program is designed to help students abroad stay connected to the campus and their friends and family. Since it is the pilot year, about one in three students going abroad will receive a camera on a first come, first serve basis, and cameras will be set up around campus to keep home close to students.
To assist in this goal of changing campus climate, under his leadership, the Senate created a new position, chair of campus climate on the executive board.
"[The two co-chairs] did a phenomenal job this year. They created an anonymous reporting website so that all students would have a way to explain their frustrations to campus officials, in any aspect of campus life, but mostly geared to [issues of] diversity and discrimination."
Schwarzberg spoke of the changes that he and the 2006-07 Senate initiated.
"All re-licensing processes were changed so that money would be allocated on a per program basis and not in a lump sum amount. We are holding students organizations more accountable [for their] programming," said Schwarzberg.
One such student organization, the Diversity Committee, requested more funds this academic year than ever before, which is, according to Schwarzberg, "an excellent sign that the DU community is concentrated on and excited about hosting programs with diversity and cultural education as an underlying theme," such as programs like Festival of Nations.
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