Members OK Student Senate rep
By TIM LOGAN
Senior Staff Writer
For years, students have sat in on Faculty Senate meetings. Now, a faculty member will have a seat in the Student Senate.
Stuart Greene, an associate professor in the University Writing Program, was unanimously approved to represent the faculty to the voice of the student body.
Greene has served on the Faculty Senate's Student Affairs Committee for three years. In that time, he has been a part of several major resolutions, including ones supporting the Women's Resource Center and The Observer's independence.
Currently, Greene is working with student and faculty leaders on revisions to Notre Dame's Honor Code.
He is looking forward to the new challenge as a go-between for student and faculty leaders.
"I've always worked closely with students, and thought I could be an advocate for students on the Faculty Senate," Greene said.
He said he hopes to open the lines of communications between students and faculty on important issues that the two groups tackle.
The motion to put a faculty representative on the Student Senate initially came out of that group. Earlier this term, the Senate passed a resolution asking for a Faculty representative. Greene has been doing the job on an interim basis, and Wednesday, he was given it full-time. He is also one of two faculty representatives on the Campus Life Council.
In other Faculty Senate News:
• While election returns came in from across the nation Tuesday night, finance professor Richard Sheehan was awaiting some results of his own. Sheehan ran for South Bend School Board.
• Student body president Brian O'Donoghue and Dillon Hall senator Brendan Dowdall met with the Student Affairs Committee to discuss student concerns and tactics for influencing University policies.
"They had some very politically astute recommendations to make to the committee," said Ed Manier, the committee's chair.
All News Stories for Wednesday, November 8, 2000
