PSGA Blog Number 21: The Final Meeting, Election Results Ratified, and President Matoske Falls Down

The 2008-2009 PSGA met for the last time on May 6 and ratified the previous week’s election results for positions including the Major Events Coordinator, General Programming Coordinator, Student Activities Coordinator, and Coordinator of Histories and Documents.

The elected officials included Sam Schachter as the next MEC, former Senator of Music Andrew Kuhl as GPC, former Senator Steven Sabel of Outback as CoHaD, and Tech Services employee Joshua Kirby as SAC. Of all winners, Schachter received the highest voting return with 48 percent of the students’ votes.

Chair of the Senate Russell Zambito said that the Purchase College Association met and confirmed that President Thomas J. Schwarz’s efforts to ban the selling of cigarettes from the campus bookstore were successful, and it would become effective before the start of the fall semester. Zambito also said the PCA agreed to increase the campus meal plan five percent for the upcoming semester.

The Art Committee confirmed that several new murals would be displayed throughout the campus next semester, which included the highly anticipated implementation of art at The Hub.

Sabel said an initiative he had been working on for many weeks to provide recycling machines for all types of recyclables at The More Store was complete and would become effective next semester. 

As the Senate waited for quorum, PSGA President Joe Matoske lost in a game of “duck, duck, goose” to Senator Dennis O’Brien of Fort Awesome, sending him running off the wall, toppling to the floor, and taking down a chair in the process. It was the first of two chairs Matoske had knocked over at the meeting, with the second being Sabel’s chair, which Matoske toppled by sitting on Sabel’s lap to congratulate him on his new position. The chair broke.

Election Results (according to the Senate’s agenda):
Student Activities Coordinator: Joshua Kirby 325/727 votes (45 percent)
Coordinator of Histories and Documents: Steven Sabel 301/726 votes (41 percent)
Coordinator of Major Events: Sam Schachter 346/726 (48 percent)
Coordinator of General Programming: Andrew Kuhl 285/726 (39 percent)