Student Association Appoints 3 Freshmen Senators

The Student Association Senate made several appointments to the legislative body on Tuesday night.  The Senate appointed three freshmen senators: Kevin Curtin, Amanda Galonek, and Meredith Waters.  Freshmen senators do not have actual voting rights in the SA Senate, and the position serves as more of a symbolic position.

Current SA Senators Erik Ashida (CCAS-UG) and Josh Goldstein (CCAS-UG) both served as freshmen senators last year.

Former SA president Nicole Capp notably served as a freshman non-voting senator.  Julie Bindelglass was controversially appointed as a voting SA senator representing the Columbian College during her freshmen year, which drew some ire from the non-voting freshman senators that year.

Meredith Waters won the biggest applause from the Senate after she humorously emphasized being a total minority at GW since Waters is an African American, a public health major, and a Mount Vernon resident.  Kevin Curtin won approval from the SA crowd after making a joke about SA senator Logan Dobson and complimenting the cookies that were handed out by several SA senators, but Curtin impressed the Senate by highlighting his interest in finance, which earned him a spot on the SA Finance Committee.  

Among the others appointed by the SA Senate:

Jay Ramsey and Abdullah Masud will fill in the two vacant Law School seats

Alexander Kapinos fills in a vacant seat for the Columbian College graduate school.

Daniel Ward was appinted to the School of Medicine and Health Science's undergraduate seat.

Michael Case was appointed as first-year graduate senators.  They, like the freshman undergraduate senators will not be able to vote in this year's SA legislative session.