MSA revises Studio position
Under the revision, a Craft Studio assistant will be hired through June.
Oct. 13, 2006
The Missouri Students Association Senate passed a bylaw revision Wednesday, and a temporary assistant will be named for the MSA/Graduate Professional Council Craft Studio through the end of June. The MSA Operations Committee met Tuesday with Craft Studio coordinator Kelsey Hammond to discuss amending a bylaw that decreased the Craft Studio's hours and eliminated the student adviser position last year.
MSA cannot legally reinstate the position of adviser because it removed it last year, and it would give the impression that they eliminated the position to get rid of one person, which is false, MSA Operations Committee chairman Jonathan Mays said.
The amended bylaw would instate a temporary assistant to help clean and organize the studio and assist the Craft Studio coordinator. The job of cleaning can be overwhelming to one person, Hammond said.
"It's a little daunting, a little scary, a little dirty," she said.
The assistant would also help create a system to run the Craft Studio, including making forms, procedures and contracts.
"The other area where the assistant will be helpful is developing partnerships with on- and off-campus organizations and helping design events for those partnerships," Hammond stated in an e-mail.
Mays said the position is a compromise between a full-time graduate assistant and an adviser.
"It keeps us on target for what 45-36 wanted to do," Mays said.
Bill 45-36 is the bill that is being amended, and its goal was "to make the Craft Studio run more effectively and efficiently to best utilize student fees."
The assistant would make $11.50 per hour and work an estimated 34 hours per week. The position would end in June. Hammond said the Craft Studio would have to create a plan for the summer between June and when someone else is hired in the fall.
"I will start planning for that now," Hammond said.
The committee also discussed bylaws to add and specify guidelines for upcoming Senate elections. The committee will discuss those amendments more at a later date.
"I'm just glad about the Craft Studio. We had some headaches over that," MSA Senator Austin Whitlow said.
The Senate also voted to table a resolution in favor of renaming the General Classroom Building after Arvarh E. Strickland for the second meeting in a row. Strickland was MU's first full-time black faculty member. Senate Speaker Davie Holt said the decision to table the resolution stemmed from a Wednesday meeting of the naming committee, which was established to name a campus building to honor an African-American figure.
"We wanted to wait until they made a decision to make ours," Holt said.
In March 2005, the Legion of Black Collegians presented Chancellor Brady Deaton with a List of Demands. One of the demands was for a building on campus to be named after an influential African-American figure. MSA, LBC and the Residence Hall Association drafted joint-legislation in support of this action.
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