Student Senate Speaker Mike Walsh will appoint new subcommittee chairpersons Wednesday.

The senate currently consists of 26 student senate members who will make up the 10 subcommittees that range from diversity affairs and academic affairs to university development and recycling and student relations.

Choosing committee heads must be done before the committees can be formed and organized, Walsh said.

At last week’s meeting, student senate members wrote down their top committee choices along with brief explanations for their selections, said student senate member Ryan Berger.

Once the committee heads are named, the student executive vice presidents usually meet to assign student senate members to the committees.

“If a senator wants to be on (a committee), then generally they can be on it,” Berger said.

New business will be discussed Wednesday, as the first few weeks of the school year are typically slow in terms of proposed legislation and debate on important issues.

“Probably nothing will start happening until next Wednesday’s meeting,” Berger said. “Then there should be some business on the table.”

During executive reports Student Body President Caleb Judy and the four student vice presidents will tell student senate members about upcoming projects that include the voter registration drive planned for mid-September.

The senate meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

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