{"id":5410,"date":"2017-03-08T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2017-03-08T05:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:55:41","slug":"aswou-senate-meets-discuss-potential-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/aswou-senate-meets-discuss-potential-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"ASWOU Senate meets to discuss potential changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Jade Rayner\r\nNews Editor<\/pre>\n<p>The Associated Students of Western Oregon University held a senate meeting on Monday, March 6. The meeting went over various topics including, but not limited to, hiring senate secretary, parking meters and drone usage on-campus.<\/p>\n<p>A proposal to discuss a safe place on campus to fly drones was brought to the ASWOU Senate meeting because, \u201cThere is no safe place on campus for students to fly radio-controlled drones \u2026 there are at least 20 students and some faculty that would support there being a safe place on campus to fly \u2026 there are currently no guidelines for where students can fly their drones,\u201d among other concerns.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of the discussion on drone usage was centered around rules that would need to be put in place for on campus drone flying. One senate member was concerned about drones being used for inappropriate reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the cheapest drones that we sell at Home Depot, they have a mile radius. So it could be very easy for somebody to do something promiscuous or inappropriate with drones, which is why I\u2019m bringing up this conversation; it\u2019s one we need to have,\u201d they went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the senate meeting, a request that the ASWOU Senate President Corbin Garner attend the Monmouth city council meeting on behalf of Western students was placed. Specifically the meeting taking place on Tuesday, April 4, that will be discussing whether or not to declare Monmouth a sanctuary city.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons for this request include \u201csanctuary cities are currently a pertinent topic \u2026 some WOU students may feel unsafe coming into the city of Monmouth for school \u2026 WOU is a sanctuary campus that is meant to help people feel safe and included &#8230; some WOU students have expressed their support for making Monmouth a sanctuary city\u201d as summarized by the senate.<\/p>\n<p>The request was examined, but not voted on during the senate meeting.<\/p>\n<p>All ASWOU Senate meetings are open to students to bring up any issues, or discuss anything on their mind about Western. The ASWOU Twitter account advertised this opportunity using the hashtag #WOURantAboutIt on March 6. They can also be contacted by email at aswou@wou.edu.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at journalnews@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Jade Rayner News Editor The Associated Students of Western Oregon University held a senate meeting on Monday, March 6. The meeting went over various topics including, but not limited to, hiring senate secretary, parking meters and drone usage on-campus. A proposal to discuss a safe place on campus to fly drones was brought to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":5445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}