In the survey, students ranked University grading policy, general academic improvements, student life, dining options, campus facilities, and service and sustainability as priority issues in order of decreasing importance.
As part of the general grading policy priority, students said that a project to collect and analyze data on the impact of the University’s grade deflation plan was most important to undertake. Environmental concerns and potential community service initiatives were central topics explored at the Senate meeting on Sunday night.
Carol Dreibelbis ’11 presented the idea of a “Green Space” to serve as a center for student groups focused on environmental concerns and as a new location for the Office of Sustainability.
“We would want the center to be used as a meeting space for all of the ‘green’ groups,” she explained, noting that there is currently no central way for students in these groups to communicate with each other.
Following the presentation and discussion, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 motioned to “support the creation of the Princeton Environmental ‘Green Space,’ which would be a location in which the Princeton environmental groups and the Office of Sustainability could meet.” The Senate then approved the motion.
Continuing its discussion of environmental issues, the Senate then voted against having Yaroshefsky sign a letter to Congress supporting a federal budget allocation for the Regaining our Energy Science and Engineering Edge (RE-ENERGYSE) Bill which would “represent the nation’s first comprehensive federal program for clean energy education,” according to a fact sheet from the program’s proponents. Yaroshefsky considered the endorsement at the request of the Stanford student-government president.
Senate members said such an endorsement may extend beyond the USG’s purview.
“Yaro is our elected president, but he is not our representative in this political sense,” USG academics chair Becca Lee ’12 noted.
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