By Johnathan Masters–

The Student Government Association organized a constitutional convention over this past summer to propose changes to the current SGA constitution.

Changes to the constitution would add positions for a parliamentarian and a historian, which will free the executive vice president, currently Puja Sangoi, so they have more time for “education and assisting the senate,” Medical School Vice President Paul Mick said.

The parliamentarian’s role would not replace the chairman, a position which is currently held by Mick, but would be used to train the senators on parliamentary procedure and to enforce those procedures during SGA meetings.

Jeremy Wright, a senior sociology major, said having a parliamentarian was a great idea, since it offered more “checks and balances.”  Wright also believed that getting a historian was a good idea, since “they should be keeping their records.”

Graudick warned that whichever senator was appointed parliamentarian would lose their right to speak and vote in the senate meeting.

The historian’s role would be to gather all of SGA’s previous resolutions and put them into a binder to improve record keeping.

“The only records we have go back to four years,” Mick said.

Mick said the point of the changes is to put the power of the day-to-day activities of the SGA into the senate’s hands.

Mick said members of the SGA worked on the changes for at least 50 hours.

The committee consisted of SGA graduate school president Travis Gault, supreme court chief justice Brandon McReynolds, associate justice Doug Lusco, Kent School of Social Work President Kelsie Smithson and arts and sciences senator Skylar Graudick.

The decision to ratify a constitutional change at SGA does not fall in the hands of the senate.  In order for a constitutional change to happen, two-thirds of the councils will have to vote to approve them.

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