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With its Spring 2001 elections just underway, members of the University Committee on Student Life (UCSL) were already planning ahead for the 2002 elections at their meeting last Thursday night.
At-large Senator Tripp Zanetis said students next year will be able to vote online, thanks to a new version of the NYUHome e-mail program, to be released in the fall. The new version will also include other government-oriented services, Zanetis said.
"It's a good step towards all-University elections because it will be able to be used by the entire university," Zanetis said.
Some members of the UCSL's Academic Support Services Committee will be working with club officers from the Office of Student Activities and NYU's Chief Information Technology Officer Marilyn McMillan in an effort to complete the software for the scheduled release date.
"We're going to work our hardest over the summer to get this programmed," Zanetis said.
The UCSL also announced that applications for At-large positions had been sent to all members of the UCSL and are currently being accepted in room 607 of 269 Mercer St.
The seven At-large Senators, who are nominated by the 15 elected senators of the Student Senators Council (SSC) to represent groups on campus that do not otherwise have an elected senator, should also provide continuity within the UCSL, Zanetis said.
"In certain years, more students leave than others," Lenny Zeiger, the chair of the SSC and UCSL, said. "The point of continuity is that a few people who know the body of the UCSL stick around."
At-large positions will be voted on by elected senators at the next SSC meeting, on April 26, Zeiger said. The SSC will then nominate Senators for the positions of chair and a vice-chair for the SSC. Only incumbent Senators are elegible to hold the position of chair.
The results of the election will be announced at the UCSL meeting immediately following the SSC meeting.
All members of the UCSL will also nominate and vote for a member of the UCSL to represent them as that body's vice-chair on April 26, Zeiger said.
All full-time students are eligible for At-large positions. Interested students must submit an application along with a letter expressing their desire to be considered for the position and what group on campus they represent.
The deadline for applications is April 11, by 5 p.m.
'#0151;additional reporting by Associate News Editor Brandt Gassman22
