Members of the Residence Hall Association proposed a general support of the Student Senate election rather than an endorsement of individual candidates at Thursday’s meeting.

Traditionally, the RHA forms a Student Senate Endorsement Committee. Under the RHA constitution, the Student Senate Endorsement Committee must have seven members and must individually interview each candidate before deciding who the RHA will endorse.

The RHA Student Senate Endorsement Committee has obtained six of the required seven members and has yet to implement individual interviews with all the candidates.

A resolution came by way of a general support of the election itself rather than endorsing individual candidates.

“I think promoting the actual voting – saying this is what these people can do for you would be better,” said Amy Grammer, vice president of finance and president-elect of the RHA.

Also on the table for the discussion was the allocation of RHA budget money into the funding of a Recognized Student Organization booklet to be handed out during new student orientations.

RHA members decided to allocate $100 to fund the booklet, which offers new students an overview of the organizations at the university. Twenty dollars will be drawn from five separate RHA accounts to make up the $100 allocation.

The RHA funded Campus Perk, which offers students free coffee and a place to socialize in Thomas Hall every Monday and Thursday night, may be reduced to once every three weeks because of a decline in attendance.

In other matters, a survey concerning the shuttle bus situation was passed around, detailing information on how the buses will be funded next year. The decision will be for either one shuttle next year, increasing the fee from $5.60 to $6.90 a semester; two shuttles, increasing the fee to $10.90 a semester; or simply an elimination of all shuttles.

Also briefly discussed was the recent hidden camera incident, in which a Taylor Hall resident assistant set up a hidden camera toward the shower entrance door in an attempt to catch sign vandals in the act.

Alison Mormino, RHA president, asked RHA members’ opinions of the incident; including whether subjecting students to surveillance with a hidden camera is an invasion of the students’ privacy.

“It is not legal for a landlord to set up a camera in an apartment, so why would an RA be able to?” Joe Harr, Ford Hall president asked.