{"id":74015,"date":"2025-12-03T05:49:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/74015\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:49:33","slug":"student-senate-provides-updates-on-resolutions-during-last-meeting-of-the-semester-student-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/74015\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Senate provides updates on resolutions during last meeting of the semester | Student Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"People sitting in a row with laptops in front of them smile and clap.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1770\" height=\"1171\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692f8a49a603a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Student Senate officers clap during a Student Senate general body meeting Dec. 2 in the Student Government Chambers. It was the last senate meeting of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Samarie%20Goffney\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Samarie Goffney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Student Government provided updates to several resolutions during its final meeting of the semester Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Resolution 25-20, \u201cTextbook Sell Back Drive,\u201d was killed during a committee meeting. Academic Affairs Chair Emman Khan said the resolution aimed to bring awareness to the UTA Bookstore\u2019s textbook sell-back program. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people on campus didn\u2019t even know that you could do that,\u201d Khan said. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"A man smiles and shakes a woman's hand, handing her a framed certificate.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1660\" height=\"1248\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692f8a5385878.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Andres Morales, Student Government vice president, presents Sraavya Maulika Yenugapalli, College of Engineering senator and Ms. UTA, with the Senator of the Month award during a Student Senate general body meeting Dec. 2 in the Student Government Chambers. The meeting wrapped up with no resolutions introduced.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Samarie%20Goffney\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Samarie Goffney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She said the resolution was killed because the bookstore only accepted books low in stock. Students also would not get 100% of their money back, and the sell back is facilitated by Follett, not the UTA Bookstore. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were so many different limitations to what could and couldn&#8217;t be sold and how much money you would get back,\u201d Khan said. <\/p>\n<p>Resolution 25-24, \u201cPeace, Prayer, Permanence,&#8221; was also killed. The resolution aimed to create a prayer room for Muslim students.<\/p>\n<p>Student Affairs Chair Roberto Sok said based on previous research done by the committee, they discovered that creating a prayer room designated for Muslim students would violate the First Amendment and that UTA as an institution could not show favoritism to one religion over another. <\/p>\n<p>@tay._.sansom<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/news\/student_governance\/student-senate-provides-updates-on-resolutions-during-last-meeting-of-the-semester\/mailto:news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student Senate officers clap during a Student Senate general body meeting Dec. 2 in the Student Government Chambers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1086,4756],"class_list":{"0":"post-74015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-campus","12":"tag-student_governance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}