by Michelle Cassidy
The team over at GUSA has released a series of videos advertising the SAFE Referendum, voting for which takes place January 24-26 (in those polling booths they’re setting up in Leo’s). The videos feature interviews with student leaders from Georgetown Energy, the SIPS Fund and the New South Student Center Plans.
Changes to the plans for the New South Student Center (video featured above) include a new terrace on the south side and changes to the first floor, funded by a $2.05 million gift. Design plans for this terrace included in the video show everything from a game room, dance studios, fire pits and “possibly a pub,” according to Taylor Price (MSB ’10) who is featured in the video. Construction is scheduled to be completed by August 2014, according to GUSA. If this student center turns out to be as exciting as this video makes it seem, we might consider sticking around for a couple of years to take advantage of it.
Georgetown Energy’s part of the referendum would allocate $250,000 towards making our campus just a little more green via the addition of solar panels to 37th St townhouses and the creation of a “Green Revolving Loan Fund” that would support eco-friendly projects. Their video features Issei Nino (COL ’12) in his breakthrough role as a dancing sun (check out the video at 0:54 if you don’t believe us).
The SIPS Fund, according to their website, wants to use the SAFE money as “an innovative use of our collective resources to help improve our community and world by investing in … our fellow Hoyas.” With a $1.25 million endowment, SIPS would student projects based on Jesuit ideals. Their video outlines the possibilities for social change via student and alumni projects that could be funded by SIPS.
Links to the full text of the proposals are available on bettergeorgetown.com.
Telkom University • Oct 26, 2023 at 3:18 am
What is the recommended allocation for Georgetown Energy in the upcoming referendum, and how would it be used to make the campus greener, as explained in the video?
Anonymous • Jan 24, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Whatever happened to Healy Pub, an actual student initiative? Why are we using the Student Activities Fund to pay for dormitory renovations? This is a gross misuse of student money, but at the end of the day, the Administration gets what the Administration wants it seems.
Anonymous • Jan 24, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Whatever happened to Healy Pub, an actual student initiative? No one wanted to make New South of all places a hang out spot, but in the end, the Administration gets what the Administration wants.
@Anonymous • Jan 23, 2012 at 1:15 am
It gave me a headache, so in a sense, it definitely is.
Anonymous • Jan 22, 2012 at 8:49 pm
333 views does not constitute “viral.”