Phoenix Free was founded in the fall of 2019 and has grown to five members over the last two years. The faculty in Pheonix Free offers substance abuse and mental health services, as well as planning social events and professional development for their members.

Student Body President Jack Corby gave his presidential report following the presentation. Under the report, Gabby Gutiérrez was appointed to the treasurer position for the Class of 2024. Corby gave an update to the Koury renovations plan and took opinions from the senate on the idea of integrated residential buildings, with classrooms and living spaces all in one building, as they are in consideration for the 2040 Elon project.

For new business, SGA passed two resolutions expressing sympathy for the passing of Jo Watts Williams, an Elon alumni and former professor, and Will Stoneman, an Elon first-year.

Jana Lynn Patterson gave updates on COVID-19, including positivity rates slowing this past week and that the university would update students on booster shot recommendations. The treasurer’s report with Carolina Penfield included a funding request for REI Groundwater training, a diversity, equity and Inclusion training that would be offered to Elon Organization leaders. The request failed in the senate over concerns regarding the marketing of the training and the online format. An amendment to the treasurer’s manual was passed so that the executive treasurer could review funding requests under $250, streamlining the funding request process.

The newly elected class leaders are President Alexis Morrisey and Vice President Charlotte McCormick. Alexis Cooper, Bo Dalrymple and Robin Fallow were elected as senators.

Several senators were appointed to new positions. Students who will take on new roles with SGA for the following year are:  

• Clare Rudolph, Class of 2025 Treasurer
• Sydney Lisak, Class of 2025 Secretary
• Dylan Kysela, Class of 2024 Secretary
• Hannah Hansen, School of Education Senator
• Tyra Duque, College of Arts and Sciences Senator
• Boyd Burruss, College of Arts and Sciences Senator
• Dani Fraioli, Campus Programs Senator
• Jack Shepard, Campus Programs Senator
• Rush Lacoste, Campus Programs Senator
• Cole Meixsell, Professional Senator
• Alli Barnett, Academic and Honors senator
• Whitney McDonnell, Panhellenic Senator

All newly appointed senators passed with a 34-0 vote.

Representatives from the Healthy Elon committee visited the Senate to answer any COVID-19 related questions. The Healthy Elon committee is still monitoring the caseload and is updating restrictions based upon those numbers. There are currently no clusters and still a small percentage of positive tests on campus.

As for booster shot requirements, Elon will follow the CDC guidelines.

SGA President Jack Corby’s report began with the appointment of SGA Senator Chase Solomon to the chief of staff position in the president’s cabinet, with a vote of 40-0.

Corby also presented the updated Acorn Fund manual. The Acorn Fund is an SGA-funded grant and scholarship program for student-run businesses. Changes to the manual included an addition to the School of Health Science, an attendance structure for those on the board, a 10% disbursement fee and the ability for the Chair to add SGA funding if the interest of the fund fell below $5,000. The new Acorn fund manual passed with a vote of 39-0.

Under the treasurer’s report the Senate approved funding for the Elon Gospel Choir and Model UN.

The Secretary’s report was centered around the Homecoming packet. Homecoming Court application opens on PhoenixConnect Oct. 4 and will close on Oct. 26. Voting for Homecoming Royalty with take place from Nov. 2 until Nov. 5 on PhoenixConnect. Royalty will be crowned during halftime of the homecoming game.

Dixon advocated for Elon to return to its weekly testing schedule from the spring 2021 semester, saying that none of the vaccines offered in the United States are fully effective and cited capacity rates for North Carolina hospitals.

For the President’s report from Student Body President Jack Corby ’22, was the appointment of Ireland Horan ’22 to the vice president position for the Class of 2022. Horan was passed with a vote of 31-2-0.

The advisor’s report from Jana Lynn Patterson centered around COVID-19 ˛ą˛Ô»ĺĚýPatterson provided updates from the Healthy Elon committee regarding testing requirements for traveling organizations, close contact tracing and the newly announced flu vaccine requirement for the fall semester.

Patterson also said that Healthy Elon is monitoring the idea of booster COVID-19 shots and expanding asymptomatic testing for students. Under the vice president’s report was the appointment of Madison Holmes to chair the Elections Committee. The appointment passed with a vote of 34-0. 

Come join us for a two-part, student body-wide action planning session.

Elon SGA unanimously passed the Gender-Based Violence Prevention Pilot, which funded two external violence prevention consultants. These consultants will guide students through a two-session, customized, action-based program to generate student-designed structural proposals for preventing violence on campus.

This program will be run on two consecutive weekends (90 minutes per session) in mid-September. The results of this program will be presented to university administration, along with data-driven recommendations for new institutional violence prevention practices.

Anyone is eligible to attend – click on to sign up!

For questions, comments, or concerns contact Hailey Jurgens (hjurgens@elon.edu) or Ellen Fiedler (efiedler3@elon.edu).