Your Student Government At Work
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A quick look at our recent accomplishments:
- Student Government Pub Nights: very popular weekly happy hours for students, with free beer and wine (starting this year on Thursday, Oct. 1!)
- Faculty-Student Lunch Program: every year, we arrange for students to have free lunches with distinguished HLS professors.
- Organize and distribute Unofficial Course Evaluations each semester.
- Solicited, collected, and presented student feedback regarding the grade change to Dean Kagan.
- Solicited, collected, and presented student feedback regarding the switch to the Early Interview Program to Office of Career Services.
- Formed and headed a student committee to meet with President Faust on the new dean search.
- Changed news@law in order to allow students to plan their weeks more conveniently.
- Convinced administration to buy toasters for the 2008-2009 free Monday morning bagel breakfasts.
- Obtained Splenda, strawberry cream cheese, and Heinz ketchup in the Hark.
- Worked with Restaurant Associates to respond to vegetarian students’ needs, including increased quantity of vegetarian sushi and better vegetarian labeling.
- Increased quantity of sweat towels at the Hemenway gym.
- Successfully advocated to see the Hark re-open from 2:30-5:00 to serve students’ needs in 2009.
- Distributed bags filled with candy and faculty advice to the 1Ls when they received their grades.
- Created a database of 3Ls willing to give 2Ls advice on applying to law firms.
- Dodgeball tournament (co-sponsored with HL Central and the intramural sports).
- Approved of many new students groups in 2008-2009.