By Kate Bennett

SMCC’s Student Senate met for its weekly meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 8. During this meeting, the Business Club was granted their funding request to pay for up to 50 students to participate in their obstacle-course race on Sunday, Nov. 12. The Activities Committee showed the movie “Baby Driver” on Wednesday, Nov. 8, in Jewett Auditorium and reminded students of this during the Student Senate meeting. Within the next few weeks, the Activities Committee will be hosting another Candy Bingo night and a hot-cocoa morning. A trivia night was hosted on Monday, Nov. 13 by Sodexo. Sodexo gave away Flex Cash during the trivia night.

There was a Veterans Luncheon on Thursday, Nov. 16. A silhouette display to raise awareness of Veteran suicide risk has been up in the Learning Commons for students to view.

Within the next few weeks there will be a firefighting food drive. There will not be a Student Senate meeting the day before Thanksgiving (Wednesday, Nov. 22) so students can spend more time with their families.

Student Senate met on November 15th, 2017 in Jewett Auditorium. The Seawolves leadership club is reinstated through CeSIL. Their goal is to assemble a team of six students to compete in a collegiate leadership competition. They were granted their funding request of $1,995 to pay for the team entry fee.

On Wednesday, November 29th and Thursday, November 30th, tables are going to be set up from 12pm to 1pm for the I March For campaign. The I March For campaign is where students can go over to the table, write down something they march for, and then have their photo taken with it to be shared with the larger campaign. That same Thursday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. there was an open dialog about the I March For campaign.

A “Movies for Mental Health” workshop is being put together for the spring 2018 semester. It will be held at SMCC and the Student Senate granted $1,400 to be used towards it.