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Will the real Student Government Association constitution please stand up?

When students went to computers to vote in November for the SGA positions the measure to ratify a new constitution was missing from the ballot.

That new constitution was not on the Nov. 18 and 19 ballot because it was not approved by administration yet.

The members of the Student Senate voted to adopt Resolution F08-01 on Sept. 15, which attempts to enact a third constitution in as many years.

This new constitution comes after a line of presidents and senate members have tried to change the 2005 constitution.

Despite attempts to make modifications the 2005 version is the only constitution that meets all of the requirements of being approved by the SGA, MWSU administration and popular vote of the students to make it a ratified constitution.

The reasons for the attempted changes are many and depend widely upon which SGA administration you ask.

According to the past Vice President Luke Herrington, “Students were asking for better representation during the SGA administration of President Luke Gorham and Vice-President Jeff Knapp, who began making proposals to change the constitution somewhere around 2004 and 2005.”

The Student Government Association’s choice to deviate from its constitution could invalidate the November election or cause the president-elect to take office immediately instead of in April as outlined in the proposed constitution.
The 2005 constitution, the last one approved by both MWSU administration and the student body, stipulates that presidential elections are held in March [...]

Most students of Missouri Western have at least one thing in common; the need to work while getting their education.
According to Linda Garlinger, the director of the MWSU career development office, about 95 percent of the students here work in the area.
“The perception is, that students and graduates can’t get jobs in the local community,” [...]

Some where along the line this semester it seems we have lost the campus’ driving rules. I have been noticing more violations and less campus police. 
A great deal of effort is given to parking violations, which do not kill or injure.  I don’t see very many tickets for moving violations being issued on campus.

The day is about to come when a different professor shows up at the front of the class to officiate over the instructor’s evaluation. “Students don’t take faculty evaluations seriously,”Western junior Stephanie Willett said. “Either they are mad at an instructor and wish to take out their frustrations in the evaluation or they are happy [...]

Students will soon be able to view faculty evaluations of any Missouri college or university on each campus’ Web site.
The Missouri General Assembly passed Senate Bill 389 with an effective date of August ‘07, which requires all institutions of higher education to include faculty names, credentials and student ratings on their Web sites.
Missouri Governor Matt [...]

Missouri Western State University is making the investments necessary to establish a long term commitment to offering classes off Downs Drive. here are two locations where students can take credit and non-credit courses. One is the downtown St. Joseph campus at 6 and Robidoux streets that some may already know about, but, many students don’t [...]