2008 Woodie Awards
ASUN meets to swear in new officers
Ryan Boetel
Issue date: 4/3/08 Section: News
Out with old, in with the new.
The members of the Association of Students of the University on Nebraska put on their formal clothes and shiny shoes and met in the Wick Center on Wednesday night to have the last weekly meeting for the previous administration and the first meeting for the new administration.
"I'd like to express my gratitude," said David Solheim, a senior international studies major and the former ASUN administration's president. "I am impressed with how the senate has acted ... it's meant a lot to me."
The student senators spent the majority of their last meeting sharing their favorite memories from the previous year and thanking each other for the time they spent working together.
After the meeting adjourned, the doors to the main room of the Wick Center opened, and friends and family of those taking office spent a few minutes sipping iced tea and munching on cookies before the ASUN 2008-2009 Inauguration began.
UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman spoke at the beginning of the inauguration, calling it a "traditional transition in the life of the university and an important one."
Five UNL teachers and one student senator were also recognized, as the awards for outstanding educator and outstanding senator of the year were handed out. Andrzej Rajca, a chemistry professor, won for small classroom and Ronald Hanson, an agricultural economics professor, was the outstanding large classroom teacher of the year. Greg Gifford, a humanities graduate student and former ASUN senator, won the outstanding senator of the year award.
The former student senators introduced those who would fill their shoes.
After the newly elected senators were sworn in and had taken their seats, Trevor Nieveen, the new ASUN internal vice president, took roll call, and the remainder of the inauguration served as the first meeting for the new administration.
Emily Zimmer, a junior political science major and ASUN president, had to be sworn in as student body president and regent.
Zimmer chose E. Susan Gourley, superintendent of Lincoln Public Schools, to swear her in as UNL's student regent. Zimmer and Gourley have a student-teacher relationship and are family friends. Gourley also was once a member of Zimmer's sorority, Kappa Delta.
"There are a lot of people in this room who have known Emily for a long time," Gourley said. "And we are not surprised you are assuming this position of leadership."
After being inducted, Zimmer spoke as president to ASUN for the first time.
"You guys have earned the seats you currently occupy," she said, "Remember what you owe the student body."
RYANBOETEL@DAILYNEBRAKSAN.COM
The members of the Association of Students of the University on Nebraska put on their formal clothes and shiny shoes and met in the Wick Center on Wednesday night to have the last weekly meeting for the previous administration and the first meeting for the new administration.
"I'd like to express my gratitude," said David Solheim, a senior international studies major and the former ASUN administration's president. "I am impressed with how the senate has acted ... it's meant a lot to me."
The student senators spent the majority of their last meeting sharing their favorite memories from the previous year and thanking each other for the time they spent working together.
After the meeting adjourned, the doors to the main room of the Wick Center opened, and friends and family of those taking office spent a few minutes sipping iced tea and munching on cookies before the ASUN 2008-2009 Inauguration began.
UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman spoke at the beginning of the inauguration, calling it a "traditional transition in the life of the university and an important one."
Five UNL teachers and one student senator were also recognized, as the awards for outstanding educator and outstanding senator of the year were handed out. Andrzej Rajca, a chemistry professor, won for small classroom and Ronald Hanson, an agricultural economics professor, was the outstanding large classroom teacher of the year. Greg Gifford, a humanities graduate student and former ASUN senator, won the outstanding senator of the year award.
The former student senators introduced those who would fill their shoes.
After the newly elected senators were sworn in and had taken their seats, Trevor Nieveen, the new ASUN internal vice president, took roll call, and the remainder of the inauguration served as the first meeting for the new administration.
Emily Zimmer, a junior political science major and ASUN president, had to be sworn in as student body president and regent.
Zimmer chose E. Susan Gourley, superintendent of Lincoln Public Schools, to swear her in as UNL's student regent. Zimmer and Gourley have a student-teacher relationship and are family friends. Gourley also was once a member of Zimmer's sorority, Kappa Delta.
"There are a lot of people in this room who have known Emily for a long time," Gourley said. "And we are not surprised you are assuming this position of leadership."
After being inducted, Zimmer spoke as president to ASUN for the first time.
"You guys have earned the seats you currently occupy," she said, "Remember what you owe the student body."
RYANBOETEL@DAILYNEBRAKSAN.COM
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