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The University of Maine’s General Student Senate elected a new Executive Budgetary Committee member and a new Legal Services Liaison at its Tuesday meeting.
Sen. Paige Eggleston was named Legal Services liaison, replacing Alex Price, currently working as an intern in U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe’s office in Washington, D.C. Price served as the liaison for the fall and spring semesters in 2011.
Eggleston will serve as the senate’s go-between with Corenna Howard, an attorney retained by University of Maine Student Government as an undergraduate student legal aid.
Any undergraduate may consult Howard for free advice on issues including drugs and alcohol, studying abroad, and landlord or tenant issues.
“My goals include serving as a competent representative of UMSG, Inc., taking diligent notes during my meetings with our lawyer, and ensuring that all parties (namely, our lawyer and the senate) are all on the same page,” Eggleston wrote in an email.
Eggleston will also record frequency of legal services use by undergraduate students and report her findings to the senate. She said her interest in the position stemmed from her goal to attend law school after she graduates in 2013.
“I work well with others, effectively communicate and listen, take good notes and am quite organized,” Eggleston wrote.
In other senate news, Sen. Aaron Ortiz was elected a new member of the Executive Budgetary Committee (EBC). Ortiz was running against Sen. Jennifer Ferguson and Sen. Chris Protzmann.
The EBC prepares the annual budget and all other budget matters for the submission to senate. It can appropriate funds up to $1,000 to student organizations without requiring an approval by senate.
“As a new member to EBC I hope to get immediately involved in the budgetary process and be able to make responsible decisions to allow us the ability to give money out responsibly and effectively,” Ortiz wrote in an email.
Ortiz said he does not believe the EBC has any major problems. He said many different student organizations ask for money each week, which makes it difficult to decide where money should go.
“What I hope to bring to the committee,” Ortiz wrote, “is a new opinion to try and be responsible in where the money is going and follow up on how it is used.”
“I was pleased to see the caliber of candidates we had for the respective positions,” Caleb Rosser, student body vice president, wrote in an email. “I am confident that Paige and Aaron will be great additions.”
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