Candidates for the 2023-24 Student Government Association have spent weeks marketing their campaigns to the Emerson community, who will choose their representatives between April 6-8 through electronic...
By Maeve Lawler, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief September 7, 2022
Emerson’s Student Government Association onboards a new president and vice president following its spring semester election cycle. Pranit Chand, a senior data science and economics major, and Neiko Pittman,...
Students, staff, and faculty voiced their concerns about the college’s virtual attendance policies and discussed the college’s spring reopening plans at the Student Government Association’s annual...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor November 4, 2021
Responsible for remaking the college’s relationship to student organizations, keeping his colleagues up-to-date with pop culture, and advising the Student Government Association, Director of Student...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor August 3, 2021
The Student Government Association’s spring 2021 elections turned out just 140 students, the lowest total for a spring elections cycle, where each SGA position is up for grabs, in at least five years.
In...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor March 6, 2021
Students are championing the Student Government Association’s “Week of Rest” initiative, which calls for an alternative spring break in response to student complaints of burnout after seven straight...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor March 2, 2021
The Student Government Association approved a series of new bylaws in a wide-ranging meeting where they added new members to the organization’s academic senate and approved an appeal.
The bylaws,...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor February 4, 2021
With the spring semester underway, the Student Government Association is staring down a vacancy in one of its most crucial positions—the executive treasurer—for the first time at the start of a semester...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor February 1, 2021
The Student Government Association appointed four new members and approved an appeal during their first student assembly meeting of the spring semester on Friday.
First-year students Hannah Flayhan,...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor January 12, 2021
The Fall 2020 semester saw the Student Government Association struggle to adapt its day-to-day functioning to its new legislative model passed in the spring, a difficulty further complicated by the limitations...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor November 26, 2020
The Student Government Association discussed a new partnership that merges Emerson and Tufts Medical Center’s student healthcare resources at its Nov. 17 weekly student assembly meeting.
The proposed...
With the polls open in the Student Government Association’s fall elections, the typical flood of campaign marketing materials that popped up on campus and social media in previous years is nowhere to...
Being the Student Government Association Executive Treasurer was both the best and worst year of college. Though it may shock some, I am shy and never imagined I would have taken such an active role in...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor November 10, 2020
The Student Government Association’s weekly Student Assembly meeting was closed to the public and The Beacon, after the group entered executive session to discuss “social justice, power, and privilege”...
The Student Government Association passed its first piece of legislation, about several recent “Zoom-bombing” incidents, Tuesday—nearly halfway through the organization’s first semester under a...
By Diana Bravo, Copyeditor/Photographer October 2, 2020
The Student Government Association drafted a statement at a Student Assembly meeting Tuesday condemning a recent hateful incident that afflicted a new organization for LGBTQ+ students of color.
The...
By Diana Bravo, Copyeditor/Photographer September 26, 2020
The Student Government Association appointed five representatives to four college committees during their fourth Student Assembly meeting of the fall semester on Tuesday.
SGA appointed one of its...
The Student Government Association faces a slew of vacancies in its first semester under a newly established structure, despite filling several positions across its legislative branch in the last month.
As...
By Diana Bravo, Copyeditor/Photographer September 3, 2020
In the first Student Assembly meeting of the new semester, the Student Government Association made a series of appointments to fill vacancies across different areas of the organization, including the newly...
The Student Government Association appointed rising sophomore Jehan Ayesha to its executive vice presidency Monday after a sudden shake up of the organization's top leadership positions last month, SGA...
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