The ASSU Undergraduate Senate met last night to vote on proposed changes to the ASSU Judicial Charter as well as to discuss the future of FLiCKS and the creation of a new athletics committee.
ASSU Financial Manager Justin Fishner-Wolfson, also the chief executive officer of Stanford Student Enterprises (SSE), told the Senate that FLiCKS will no longer be a division of SSE; instead, it will become part of an ASSU Service Project.
Senator Danny Arbeiter, a sophomore, said that the change will not affect students, at least not for the remainder of this year.
“The newest service project really doesn’t change anything about the operations of FLiCKS from the consumer point of view,” he said. “At least not until next year.”
Sophomore Senator Kat Kershner, the student life, housing and education chair, announced the formation of a new committee that will be working in conjunction with the Athletics Department. Similar to the Big Game committee, this new body will focus on increasing the fan base for Stanford athletics. In addition, the new committee will examine the development of the new stadium.
Kershner also told the Senate that the ASSU will not be putting on a Multicultural Food Day this year due to a lack of manpower. She explained that the event would have fallen on the heels of other events such as an Art Affair and the Spring Block Party, which will require a considerable amount of effort from the student life, housing and education committee.
Later in the meeting, Director of Student Activities Nanci Howe spoke to the senators about the annual Founder’s Day celebration. Howe said that Stanford usually puts on a Community Day in conjunction with Founder’s Day, but that this year the ceremony will be solely for the student body.
Howe said that there will be a competition among students to write a short speech on what Stanford means to them that will be read on Founder’s Day. The deadline for speeches is March 3, and the winning student will receive $1,000.
The amendments to the ASSU Judicial Charter proposed last night predominantly consisted of typographical corrections, and were passed unanimously. Larger, more complicated changes to the Charter have been proposed as well but will not be voted on until next week.
ASSU Senate Chair Chris Nguyen, a junior, said that the changes passed last night were minor in comparison with the proposed changes on the table for next week.
“The Judicial Charter amendments we passed today were relatively minor ones,” he said. “The ones next week will be the real fireworks. These include word replacement issues and an actual major wording change.”

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