This quarter, falling in step with our published platform, the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) will publish a weekly column designed to arouse your interest in what we sit and chat about for two hours on Tuesday nights. 

The goal here is to update you on what we’re working on, give you an opportunity through the online comments to share your feedback, and to give you something to read alongside the poignantly articulated opinions of our campus comedians. All joking aside, I hope that everyone is excited to be back for Winter Quarter after our long break. 

Over break, the USG has been working on several initiatives that will be implemented over the course of the next few months.  Tonight, the Senate will confirm the Justices that Jim Francescon, the Student Body Vice-President, and I have appointed, and confirm our meeting location schedule. 

One of the things that Jim and I promised was a Senate-on-the-Road campaign in order to raise awareness of our activities. 

Anticipated meeting locations will include JMAC, Halls, Daniels and JKSIS.  In addition, we are currently working on a marketing campaign that will include publicizing what smaller organizations are planning for this quarter. 

If you are involved with a small organization that would like to be featured on a light post banner, please let me know! 

Next, you all received the email that I sent out about the newly implemented campus smoking ban. I urge you to hold one another accountable for following the measures of this ban. 

Call out your fellow students, faculty and staff if they are smoking on campus, and ask that if they would like to smoke that they go to the designated smoking areas.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to share your story on DU 365 at www.du.edu/currentstudents.

The theme of the USG column will be ‘What are YOU doing for DU?’  So tell us what you’re DUing, for DU or for your community!  I know it’s not just going to class…