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Nagel, Thompson win MSA; Kremers takes GAPSA race

April 10, 2008 - Minnesota Daily

The results are in and the students have spoken. Next year's Minnesota Student Association leaders are Mark Nagel and Trisha Thompson; Kristi Kremers won ...

Online student voting process updated in time for MSA and GAPSA elections

April 7, 2008 - Minnesota Daily

Last year, during the student government elections, online voting snafus almost resulted in a recount of the votes. The problems included students not being able to log in ...

Final group funding proposals released

April 3, 2008 - Minnesota Daily

The money war is coming to an anticlimactic close. Final Student Services Fees Committee recommendations for student groups and administrative units were released Wednesday, barely different ...

Time to meet the candidates

March 13, 2008 - Minnesota Daily

It is election season and the Minnesota Student Association and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly are gearing up for their own races. This year's campuswide elections for both ...

University students, faculty rally for support

February 21, 2008 - Minnesota Daily

The State Capitol's rotunda came alive Wednesday with the Support the U Day rally. Pompoms and giant M's waved as speakers revved up ...

Conference helps students prepare for the real world

February 4, 2008 - Minnesota Daily

Figuring out how to save money and invest wisely when you're up to your eyeballs in debt can be a challenge. The Graduate and Professional Student Association [sic] hosted a forum to help answer these types of questions for the first time Saturday ...

Students teaching students about caucus

January 31, 2008 - Minnesota Daily

John McCain, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton: only time will tell who our next president will be. Several student groups are currently working ...

MSA and GAPSA appoint new members

October 30, 2007 - Minnesota Daily

Each semester, University students cough up $324 in student services fees. Everyone has to pay them, but very few actually know where ...

Groups discuss student fees

October 18, 2007 - Minnesota Daily

Over the course of 25 years, University students will spend a total of $23 million on TCF Bank Stadium through student fees. $13 million of that ...

MSA, GAPSA want light rail under Washington Avenue

October 9, 2007 - Minnesota Daily

While many people agree the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line will be good for the University, the project ...

Group fills official posts

April 26, 2007 - Minnesota Daily

With the semester winding down, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly on Wednesday started filling executive positions ...

GAPSA members go to D.C. to discuss higher education

April 24, 2007 - Minnesota Daily

Six University graduate students traveled to Washington, D.C., earlier this month to discuss higher education issues with ...

Group to hold first election

March 28, 2007 - Minnesota Daily

With a goal to find a more dedicated leader who represents ...

March 7, 2007 - Minnesota Daily

Graduate and professional students are looking for a place to park. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly unanimously ...

MSA gets out the vote

February 22, 2007 - Minnesota Daily

Every year student government elections take place on campus, and almost ...

GAPSA reflects on new budget, approves members

February 1, 2007 - Minnesota Daily

University President Bob Bruininks kicked off the first Graduate and Professional Student Assembly meeting ...

December 7, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

For anyone confused about which box to check in the ethnicity sections of admission applications, it might ...

October 26, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

Students may face on-campus restrictions for off-campus behavior if amendments to the University's Student Conduct Code ...

October 12, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

A top official in the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly offered a proposal Wednesday to ask the University to consider lifting its firearm ban but withdrew the resolution before ...

September 26, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

For the second time in five months, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly experienced a ...

September 13, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

For some years, the University's student government has been engaged in a war with ...

New MSA, GAPSA leaders share their plans

May 2, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

As students prepare for a week of finals and begin looking ahead, newly elected leaders in student government are preparing for fall semester by setting their agendas for ...

GAPSA elects new leaders

April 27, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

At their final meeting of the academic year, members of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly selected the organization's leaders for the fall. Dmitry Zhdanov was elected as next year's GAPSA president and Suzanne Sobotka was selected executive vice president. Six of GAPSA's current executive board members were re-elected ...

U limits role in housing off campus

April 19, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

The University's days as a prominent off-campus landlord ended years ago. From the 1970s to the mid-1990s, the University owned as many as 60 off-campus properties in a single year, said Laurie McLaughlin, director of Housing and Residential Life. They mostly were single-family homes, duplexes and triplexes.

Grad student groups plan fun

April 14, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

Graduate student groups hope to relieve their peers of their usual work and stress by providing a week of appreciation, including a Twins game and free massages. The intention of the events next week is to bring together students across the campus who usually don't have the time or opportunity to socialize outside the classroom.

U pays attention to Coca-Cola scrutiny

April 10, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

As noted in recent Daily editorials, columns and letters to the editor there have been a number of allegations made against Coca-Cola Enterprises and affiliated companies regarding their practices in several countries. The majority of these allegations relate to either labor practices or environmental issues.

GAPSA moves to get more graduate student housing

April 7, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

For first-year MBA student David Vasichek, living off-campus is much easier that living near school. Vasichek returned to graduate school after entering the workforce when he finished his undergraduate degree. It's easier and cheaper to live a suburban life, he said. He also said there aren't any places near campus he liked.

Sexual-assault statement stalls

March 29, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

The joint meeting of the campus undergraduate and graduate student governments saw its first filibuster Tuesday. The statement withdrawn because of the filibuster would have called for the University to accommodate orders of protection and restraining orders when they affect the academic life of students in cases of sexual assault.

Housing summit stresses dialogue

March 28, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

Despite long-held tension caused, in part, by thousands of students living in rental housing surrounding the Minneapolis campus, students, neighbors and community members seem to agree on one thing: Communication among all parties has been subpar. To address issues of community and public safety, the Minnesota Student Association ...

MSA, GAPSA presidents to attend leadership conference

March 9, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

Two student-government leaders leave today for a leadership conference in an unlikely place. Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President Karen Buhr and Minnesota Student Association President Emily Serafy Cox, along with student-leaders from the University’s Morris and Duluth campuses, will attend the second-annual Women as Global Leaders ...

GAPSA calls for shared ruling

March 2, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

At Wednesday's Graduate and Professional Student Assembly meeting members officially called for more student involvement in University decision-making policy. The Minnesota Student Association and the Student Senate have passed similar resolutions calling for a shared governance model. The resolution calls for the creation of a Board of Regents policy that "will ensure that students shall bear the ...

Committee now awaits fees pleas

February 20, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

Student Services Fees are the lifeblood of many student organizations on campus. Each year groups requesting fees demonstrate to the Student Services Fees Committee the rhyme and reason behind their requests. On Saturday the full Student Organizations Committee met and deliberated ...

GAPSA: Fees, please

February 6, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

For a student organization requesting almost three times as much as any other student group, members of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly seemed relatively confident going into Sunday's fees presentation. The reason, said Abu Jalal, GAPSA's vice president for finance, is preparedness.

GAPSA discusses attracting graduate students to U

February 2, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

Civic engagement has been on University President Bob Bruininks' mind for some time. In 2000, then-Executive Vice President and Provost Bruininks helped to shape a task force addressing civic engagement; a process which eventually led to last year's reation of the Office of Public Engagement, headed by Victor Bloomfield

GAPSA Achievement Highlights: What have we been doing?

January 2006

A list of GAPSA's recent achievements on behalf of student interests.

MSA to address rental-housing issues

January 24, 2006 - Minnesota Daily

Even as spring semester begins, students quickly realize that fall eventually will come again — and that means seeking a place to live. Whether it's renewing a contract, sticking with a residence hall or venturing into the community to look for housing, students will be faced with a large amount of considerations: price, safety and housing quality, to name a few.

GAPSA to talk about grad housing

December 14, 2005 - Minnesota Daily

This semester's final Graduate and Professional Student Assembly meeting will address housing and livability issues for graduate and professional students at the University. GAPSA members will discuss options for future on-campus graduate and professional student housing, as well as a proposed Minneapolis ordinance that would seek to quell noisy or "unruly" gatherings.

U student leaders fight party rule

December 7, 2005 - Minnesota Daily

University student governmental bodies' efforts this week might lead to changes in a proposed Minneapolis city ordinance. Members of the Minnesota Student Association and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and other community members met Monday with 2nd Ward City Council member Paul Zerby, who represents the Minneapolis campus and surrounding area.