Stu­dent Coun­cil Dis­cusses Up­dates, Plans Events for Stu­dents

MISHAWAKA—On Mon­day, Oct. 19, Stu­dent Coun­cil met to dis­cuss up­dates and pitch ideas for dif­fer­ent ar­eas on cam­pus. First, the coun­cil ad­dressed Sodexo and the qual­ity re­port. Sodexo is cur­rently run­ning a sur­vey to see how they can im­prove. Cur­rently, they are at about a three-fourths ap­proval in most cat­e­gories and two-thirds ap­proval on clean­li­ness. The va­ri­ety in food was praised and more gluten free op­tions were re­quested.  

The coun­cil is work­ing with Sodexo to put to­gether a Thanks­giv­ing/​Christ­mas party for stu­dents, but it is still in the works. Stu­dent Coun­cil also plans to move for­ward with host­ing the sec­ond an­nual Snow­ball; the coun­cil is still in the be­gin­ning stages of plan­ning it and im­ple­ment­ing COVID-19 pro­ce­dures.  

There will also be a food drive hap­pen­ing from Nov. 2 to 13. All food col­lected will be do­nated to Faith Bap­tist Food Pantry. Stu­dent Coun­cil is work­ing on the poster an­nounc­ing the drive; they will be re­quest­ing as­sis­tance with the food drive. More in­for­ma­tion on that will be forth­com­ing.  

Stu­dent Coun­cil also ex­plored ways in which the wa­ter foun­tains could be uti­lized again. Wa­ter bot­tle fill­ing sta­tions and san­i­tiz­ing wipes by each foun­tain were both rec­om­men­da­tions. They also dis­cussed ways that stu­dents could make it known to oth­ers that they are wel­come to sit at their table in the Din­ing Com­mons. They pro­posed the idea to have a sign on ta­bles stu­dents could dis­play if there are va­can­cies that are up for grabs.