DiGiorgio to attend CSL meeting
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 4:20PM By Kaitlyn Schallhorn
Due to a change in President Anthony DiGiorgio's schedule, he will not attend the March 8 CSL meeting, the president's office told The Johnsonian on Wednesday. "On Monday, after an early morning meeting in Rock Hill, the president’s schedule now calls for him to leave for Columbia for the rest of the day, returning late in the evening," Rebecca Masters, assistant to the president for public affairs, wrote in an e-mail to The Johnsonian.
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President Anthony DiGiorgio plans to attend the Council of Student Leaders’ (CSL) meeting at 7 p.m. on March 8 in Dinkins Auditorium, CSL chair Sydney Evans said during the group’s most recent meeting.
Evans said she is unsure of what specifically the conversation will be about but said plans were made at the beginning of the school year for DiGiorgio to attend a meeting. Typically the president meets with CSL members during their annual retreat in the fall. DiGiorgio was unable to do so this year and Evans said she suggests he could still meet with CSL during a regularly scheduled meeting.
PASCAL
In other business on Monday night, Mark Herring, dean of Dacus Library, told CSL members it would take $2 million of state funds to save PASCAL.
While the state legislature has not officially decided against funding P.A.S.C.A.L., the chance of the databases and book loan program surviving looks bleak, Herring said.
DiGiorgio has lobbied the state for the money though, Herring said.
“No other president in the state of South Carolina has put forth as much effort,” he said.
Winthrop Student Congress
Members of Winthrop Student Congress, a group formed in hopes of gaining student elections on campus, sent one representative to the most recent CSL meeting but he did not intiate any discussion on the issue, the group’s founder Devang Joshi said. Evans said there is still an ad-hoc commitee set to address the proposals of the student congress group.
Evans and CSL members Eddie Szeman and Jason Paul have expressed interest in serving on the committee.
Joshi said there are at least five members of Winthrop Student Congress interested in serving on the joint committee but nothing has been finalized because meeting times have not been scheduled.
Students can’t commit to joining because they are unsure of their schedules, Joshi said.
