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Senate
makes new appointments, holds birthday celebration
for senator
By
Daniel Linck Savino
Online Forty-Niner
Assistant Opinion Editor
The
Associated Students' Senate hall, normally
a somber room, was much more relaxed Wednesday.
The usual issues of Senate business were
broken up with new appointments and happy
announcements.
First
of the appointees was Katie Sullivan, who
was quickly approved as a new associate
justice for the AS Judiciary.
Sullivan,
who is a political science major, talked
about her move to the judiciary in a brief
pre-meeting interview.
"It's
always kind of been my hope to get a little
more involved in school," she said.
"I've been working my way up through
organizations and gaining a little more
familiarity [with the school]. I was actually
approached about a month ago, and was told
that there were going to be some openings
in the judiciary. I have a few friends in
the government and they thought it would
be something that I'd be good at."
Sullivan,
who is involved with the Orange County Big
Brothers Big Sisters program, currently
works for the Orange County district attorney.
She has been involved in law for some time,
though.
"Law
has been something that I've wanted to do
since high school. I'm involved in a law
society here—I'm an officer there,"
she said.
Concerning
her impending work in the Judicary, she
said that "it's something that can
open up so many opportunities in life. It's
something I feel that is going to be a challenge
every day and because of the nature of my
personality, it's going to open up a lot
of doors."
She
also talked about her goals for the judiciary,
specifically focusing on her hope to increase
its visibility.
"The
judiciary has been a branch that has been
overlooked, and not a lot of students are
knowledgeable about it," said Sullivan.
"I think that I would like to take
it upon myself and the other justices to
make it something where students of this
campus, this large student population, know
that they can come to us with their grievances
and that it's a place where they can be
heard. I know Senate does that, and our
executives offices do that, but also we're
there for them."
The
second appointee was Cestmarie Hernandez,
a journalism and theatre major. Hernandez
was named as the senator for the College
of Liberal Arts.
In
lighter news, large bunches of balloons
were tied to two chairs in the hall, and
the antechamber had been stocked with juice,
cupcakes, brownies and other snacks. The
food was provided for a pre-meeting celebration
of Senator Melissa Duque's 21st birthday.
Senator
Noelle Bautista-Kinley, of the College of
Liberal Arts, announced that she had been
accepted, through her participation in a
scholarship program, into Yale's doctoral
program.
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