Discuss “SENATORS SQUARE OFF”

?Do they even do anything??

A recent lack of Senate visibility has led some students such as first-year economics major Dan Aduna to wonder what Student Senate does, why it exists, and whom it benefits.

The Tartan looked into the policies of student governments at local and national peer universities to see how CMU?s own government fared. Compared to other universities, communication problems between student government and the students themselves seem particularly prevalent at CMU. However, other schools were found to have crippling problems with allocating student funds.

Furthermore, other universities give salaries to student government officers and student senators, whereas at CMU all student government positions are strictly on a volunteer...