The Student Senate will be meeting in Thomas Hall today for the second stop on its “Senate on the Road” program.

Zack Doiron, a senior accounting major and a desk assistant in Thomas Hall, said he thinks the “Student on the Road” program will help the Student Senate get rid of its bad reputation by forcing members to meet with students.

“I like hearing what’s going on around campus,” Doiron said.

Kaci Abolt, the student vice president of student affairs and a junior communications major, said she is hoping to hear more feedback from students about what student government could do for them.

“We’re students just like them,” Abolt said. “We want them to talk to us. We want to get to know them.”

Madeline Mirich, a freshman undecided major and resident of Andrews Hall, said that even if she were able to go to the meeting, she would not attend.

“I’d probably have something else I’d rather be doing,” Mirich said.

Student Senate Speaker Zach Samples, a sophomore history major, said he is hoping to double the attendance from five people, who attended the Pemberton Hall “Senate on the Road” meeting, to 10 people for the meeting in Thomas Hall.

Samples said postcards about the meeting were placed in the mailboxes of all the residents in the South Quad.

Aaron Rose, a sophomore undecided major and a Thomas Hall resident, said he would be willing to go to the Student Senate meeting but is not quite sure about the role student government plays.

Samples said he hopes the relaxed environment will make the student government members seem more approachable.

Dexter Carpenter, a student senate member and a junior political science major, said that through the “Senate on the Road” program, he wants to show the student body that the student government is there for them.

“We are trying to figure out what they want from student government,” Carpenter said.

Abolt said she hopes students will come to the meeting so they can have a sense of what is happening on campus and can be more informed.

The Student Senate is meeting 7 p.m. today at in the Thomas Hall basement.

Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]