Campus Round Table on SGB Druid Allegations, Mega Slates, Transparency, the SGB Elections Code, and the New SGB Media Policies

On the final Campus Round Table of the year, host John Lavanga and News Director Tom Visco are joined by a larger-than-usual panel: Alex Majchrzak, Student Government Board Allocations Committee Chairman; Julie Hallinan, former Student Government Board member; Matt Schaff, columnist for The Pitt News; Halim Genus, former Student Government Board member; Rosie McKinley, former Pathfinder President, former Allocations Committee member and former Druid; Tricia Dougherty, Rainbow Alliance President and host of The Gay Agenda; Aaron Gish, Student Government Board Elections Committee Chairman; Nick Stamatakis, current Druid and former Assistant Opinions Editor for The Pitt News; and Zach Virshup, a student who, at the final Student Government Board public meeting of the semester, said “I have a 0 percent chance of getting on Board if I’m not on a slate.”

The panel discussed the events of the prior night’s final Student Government Board public meeting of the semester, in which several students made clear their desire for a more transparant Board. Moving from discussions on the Druids and their role in Student Government Board, the current mega slate and sister slate system, Chairman Gish’s proposals to change the Student Government Board Elections Code, and the Board’s new media policies.

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