{"id":302968,"date":"2026-10-09T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302968\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:10:11","slug":"club-delegate-system-relaunches-following-semester-long-pause-the-lafayette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302968\/","title":{"rendered":"Club delegate system relaunches following semester-long pause \u2013 The Lafayette"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Delegates<\/a> <\/p>\n

Photo by Makenna McCall<\/a> for The Lafayette <\/p>\n

Delegates were randomly assigned clubs to represent by spinning a digital wheel.<\/p>\n

Lafayette College\u2019s Student Government relaunched its club delegate system during its Oct. 1 meeting, assigning senators to specific student organizations through random selection via a digital wheel spin.<\/p>\n

The relaunch follows a pilot program test run last fall, which saw 13 out of over 100 student organizations participate. An April bill<\/a>, proposed by Student Government\u2019s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, overhauled the system into its current form, according to Inclusivity Officer Evalina Ibrahim \u201829.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The club delegate system replaced the former hours system<\/a>, where members were required to complete a set amount of community service hours every semester. Student Government members have not had an hours requirement since the replacement.<\/p>\n

Delegates, which include all Student Government senators as well as the inclusivity officer, parliamentarian and secretary, are expected to \u201cmaintain consistent communication\u201d with their assigned organization, according to Ibrahim.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still ironing out the details, because I feel like that\u2019s kind of ambiguous,\u201d Ibrahim said. She added that delegates are also expected to meet with a member of each assigned organization\u2019s executive board once a semester, as well as have some type of \u201csupportive interaction,\u201d such as attending a club general body meeting or event.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the Oct. 1 meeting, senators were assigned to their clubs by spinning a digital wheel, with the number it landed on corresponding to a predetermined list of clubs the delegates were assigned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t want senators to have clubs that they were all completely familiar with, just because I feel like it\u2019s not necessarily connecting Student Government to someone that they don\u2019t know already,\u201d Ibrahim said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe randomness of it is just to connect people, connect Student Government with clubs that they might not even know about on campus,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

There is not a policy for delegates or club representatives to request a different assignment; such requests will be addressed on a \u201ccase-by-case basis,\u201d according to Ibrahim.<\/p>\n

Jadelyn Camey \u201827, a co-president of Leopards@Nite, a late-night programming organization, said her organization\u2019s executive board had already met with their assigned delegate, secretary Hayden Cohen \u201929.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were mostly just listening to her tell us what her role is as a delegate,\u201d Camey said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ended up discussing later, after she left the meeting, some things about budgets that we\u2019re planning on reaching out to her for,\u201d she added, such as requesting funds for a potential event held in the Bicentennial Village<\/a> and food at the club\u2019s shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Representatives from multiple clubs declined to comment, citing a lack of knowledge of the delegate system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Makenna McCall for The Lafayette Delegates were randomly assigned clubs to represent by spinning a digital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-302968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}