Andrew Wilber
Multimedia Editor
A major change of plans for the Carnival Variety Show and a wave of revamped proposals to allow shorts in Mercer and dancing on campus were highlights in SGA’s Corporate meeting Tuesday night.
Because of a conflict with several other events the weekend of the April 21, the 1st Annual Carnival Variety Show will now be held April 26.
Due to the change of time, the event will no longer feature a Ferris wheel. The variety show will happen as planned, however, and the event will now include a hotdog eating contest and dinner served outside in front of Latimer Student Center, according to vice president of off-campus events sophomore Mark Mercier.
On the legislative front, SGA Senate has passed revised proposals to address two long-contested issues on campus. One proposes allowing a greater variety of piercings among the student body, the other requests a relaxation of the school’s stringent ban against dancing on campus, according to an update from SGA vice president senior Daniel Grayton.
The proposals will remain dead-in-the-water unless they are approved by the Office of Student Life, however.
This week’s Corporate meeting was unique in that it was attended not only by present members of SGA, but also students who have been elected to take the reigns next year. Their attendance was encouraged, according student body president senior Vincent Smith, to give them a chance to experience and ask questions about how SGA as a whole functions.