RHA tries out restructured Congress
This year the Residence Halls Association decided to restructure the way their Congressional meetings were conducted. A bill passed last year better defined the roles of the executive and legislative branch.
Last year’s meetings were very extensive and redundant, RHA President Rachael Feuerborn said. This year the tasks are split up among six committees: Residential Life, Safety, Budgeting, Communications, Events and Planning, Policy and Rules; each committee does a variety of things.
“Last year there was internal and external and Congress,” said Feuerborn. “Internal looked at legislation and funding requests and if they passed the legislation and funding, they were passed to Congress. External met after Congress and they would do event planning and things like that.”
After the first Congressional meeting on Monday September 19, Feuerborn said that they were still working to fix the kinks. She didn’t feel confident with the separate meetings and she said that they would probably be changing it around.