ASUN’s Traditions Council seeks campus-wide efforts

The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senate was updated on expanding the Traditions Council at its meeting Wednesday night.

ASUN external vice president Amanda Crook, a senior political science major, spoke about the council, explaining that it's going to be bigger than just a student group.

After talking to the Alumni Association, Crook said the council is hoping to contact a few administrators at the university as well as alumni to truly make the council a university-wide effort.

She said the council is looking to fill some pertinent positions and encouraged the senators to help get people they know involved.

"If you know people who have previous resources that have previously been left untapped, let me know," Crook said.

At the beginning of the semester, Crook said the Traditions Council was hoping to have a stadium-wide blackout as well as having campus building descriptions.

"I didn't know how big it would be," she said. "I thought it would just be a group of students who were passionate about tradition on campus.

"But knowing we can take this to a bigger scale, that's what is going to benefit students and tradition on campus."

Now, the council is going to have to work on the basic structure before planning more events and goals, Crook said. If students participate and are enthusiastic, she said, the council can accomplish a lot this semester.

"We just have to get it started first," Crook said.

President Megan Collins, a senior business administration major, updated the senate on the freshman alcohol education program. She told the senate they are working on the second phase of the program, an informational e-mail.

"They are including things that are relevant," Collins said.

Some questions will be sent out to the senators, and Collins encouraged them to fill out the survey so Juan Franco, vice chancellor of Student Affairs, and Rick Cantril, a senior business administration major, can compile information students need to know about alcohol consumption to send in the e-mail.

Collins also described the campus safety walk she took last Thursday with representatives from other organizations to look at campus safety issues.

For instance, they were looking for broken lights as well as places where there were no lights and places where there should be light. Collins encouraged the senators to take a look at the findings from the walk and add any other concerns they may have.

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