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Check out this week's music review!

SPORT

Check out some photos from Illinois
Tech's last track meet!

 

Student newspaper of Illinois Institute of Technology since 1928

TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 9,
2016

Volume 184 I Issue 3

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SGA beings live streaming Senate meetings online

Soren Spicknall
TECH NEWS WRITER

Meetings of Illinois Tech’s student
government are notorious for their length
Starting at 9:15 every other Wednesday night,
Student Government Association (SGA)
Senate meetings almost always stretch past 11
pm and sometimes come close to a midnight
end time

For this reason, students outside
of the organization often find it daunting to
sit in on Senate meetings, learn what SGA is
working on, and provide input of their own
during discussions While it’s inevitable that
the gatherings are long (after all, a very wide
range of topics is discussed each time), it is
also widely acknowledged that SGA should
take steps to help others understand how their

meetings work and provide access for those
who can’t be there in person

Starting with last week’s Senate
meeting on the 3rd, held in Stuart Building
for the first time rather than in the MTCC
Ballroom, SGA established an online video
stream showing its proceedings, ranging from
presentation of a new student organization
(Food Science Club) to an open discussion of
the current residential fire alarm policy which
included members of RHA and staff from
RGLI

Audio was not streamed along with
the video feed during the meeting, but live
minutes were available in a public Google
Docs link with updates about discussion and
votes takenr

Members of SGA’s Executive Board
took steps to make sure that students knew

they could watch and read about the meeting,
posting on Illinois Tech Student Community
(ITSC) and on SGA’s own Facebook page

While it’s a far cry from being able
to actually attend and discuss the issues at a
Senate meeting, the new live stream option has
many potential applications and benefits

Students who are interested in open
Senate seats can see if it’s for them before
ever filling out a candidate packet, groups
presenting a student organization concept can
learn how those presentations and discussions
happen before they go in, and students who
are busy on Wednesday nights can get updates
on issues of importance to them The stream
could use some improvements (like working
audio), but it’s a great start to help SGA
publicize its efforts and add transparency to
the organization

||T SGA
SENATE

Image courtesy of Student Government Association

Students' printing funds in the interest
of a sustainable Illinois Tech campus

IIT Office ofTechnology Services

Recently, the Student Government
Association expressed concern to the
university about the reduction in the printing
allotment for new incoming students
beginning this 201572016 academic yearr

A productive exchange between the
students and the university focused on the
university’s mission; “Illinois Tech willbecome
the most sustainable, urban university campus
in the United States" The university is taking

many measures to attain its goal, one of which
is to minimize printing on campus Last year,
Illinois Tech put four monitors in Crown Hall
so that architecture students could do their
presentations without relying on paper
Illinois Tech possess the technology
tools such as Blackboard and the Google Apps
for Education suite that faculty and students
can utilize to submit documents, share ideas,
and collaborate IIT hopes that the university
community will utilize those tools and further
our pledge to become active participants in
helping IIT reach its goal of becoming the
most sustainable, urban university As of

today, Illinois Tech is positioned as one of
the top 353 Green Colleges according to the
Princeton Reviews 2015 College Rankings
We as a community should make every effort
to maintain and improve our position in this
ranking

Illinois Tech calls on faculty and
staff to take a leadership role in this effort
Faculty members, please take a moment to
consider which of the abovementioned tools
you can leverage for the betterment of your
students and consider the financial burden we
are placing on our students by requiring them
to print Students, please commit yourselves

to this goal and encourage your faculty to
reevaluate how assignments are submitted

The Support Desk is available
to help the community, best utilize these
available technology tools Do not hesitate to
reach out to them by calling (31275677DESK),
emailing (supportdesk@iitredu) or stopping
by the 2nd Floor Galvin Library

Illinois Tech has many things
about which it can be proud The university
community needs to pull together to make
this sustainability effort one more illustrious
feather in our university’s capr

Kevin Zelek, Pete Anderson
Perform at Hawks Coffeehouse

Reno Waswil
TECHNEWS WRITER

Live music is a spectacular
experience that, if done right, even those
who claim to not particularly enjoy music too
much may find pleasure in the experience
What is more is when live music is combined
with a comforting atmosphere rather than the
aggravating, insecure, and annoying one often
associated with live music, it is significantly
better

Hawks Coffeehouse, for those
agonizingly unaware, is Union Board’s
biweekly Tuesday night performance wherein
invited artists, whether they be local, touring,
or student performers, host shows for students
who are free to lounge, listen, and enjoy with
free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, sometimes
apple cider, and platters of sweet treats in the
comfort of the MTCC Welcome Center during
the lazy hour of 7 to 8 pm

This past Tuesday, February 2,
saw the event’s first student performer of

the Spring 2016 series, Kevin Zelekr Regular
Coffeehouse attendees as well as a chunk of
Zelek’s supporters care of the fraternity Alpha
Sigma Phi may remember him as the first
feature of last semester’s Coffeehouse Open
Mic performance

For this show, he came prepared
with a full hour long set of music and brought
along his cohort, electric guitarist, keyboardist,
and backup singer Pete Anderson who assisted
Zelek with a survey of his talents for use in his
acoustic melodies “It’s fun because his shows
are like a hangout," attendee and girlfriend of
the performer Danielle Boer says when asked
about the night

Zelek self describes his music as folk,
punk, and the content and style of his songs
like “This Songs About Nothing," “Wreck the
Halls (Christmas at College)," and “This Party
Sucks" are representative of that genrer

Listeners will have noted that
elements of apathy and anxiety were pervasive
in his lyrics Zelek’s singing used a distinctive
dichotomy between impassioned belting

during moments of his music and his normal
singing style emphasizing certain key moments
of the music

As Zelek and Anderson played,
onlookers enjoyed biscotti as the dreary rain
both enhanced the coziness of the venue and
detracted from most people’s willingness
to be there in the first place Alien Sound
and Lighting, Illinois Tech’s student run
organization which provides sound and
lighting services to other student organizations
at no direct cost to those organizations that
request their service, did a great job making
the show a success tool

In addition to all that, Union Board
is running a promotion wherein students that
come to three Hawks Coffeehouse events this
semester win Coffeehouse branded swag like
coffee mugs and notebooks What came as a
disruption to this promotion was that due to
a conflicting event hosted by Hawks Nest, the
sports and athletics affiliated subsection of
Union Board, the Student ID tapping device
was unavailable for use at Coffeehouse, so few

of the students who attended were recorded
Going forward, Union Board insists that this
will be fixed and the attendees will get their
rightfully won prizes

The next installment of the cereal
Hawks Coffeehouse will be a special “Pancakes
and Poetry" addition, featuring a music/poetry
duo named The Asia Project, and a pancake
barr

Finally, for students interested in
performing at the next Open Mic night, there
is an upcoming show this semester where you
will have just that opportunity Email Union
Board at music@ubiitrorg to set up an audition
time to be a part of the Hawks Coffeehouse
Open Mic from 7 pm to 9 pm on April 241
You may perform for any length oftime from
5 to 30 minutes, but only a limited number
of spots are available so when we have the
entire night booked, we will stop accepting
submissions