The UA, spearheaded by UA Representatives Sakina Zaidi and Matt Feczko, has partnered with Harrison College House to offer “granny carts” for your shopping; no more lugging bags through the sleet from Fresh Grocer (check out our report)!

Anyone living in Harrison can pick up the carts from the Info Desk and sign them out for up to an hour. There are six carts in total, with a limit of one per person. Hopefully, if the program is popular, it will expand to the other high rises and eventually across all on-campus housing!

After receiving complaints from student groups whose reservations for Perelman Quad spaces (which includes Houston Hall, Williams Hall, and the ARCH) were “bumped” for other groups, the UA launched an investigation into the reservations process.

The UA passed a resolution on reservations, accepted by the Vice-Provost of University Life, which:

• Mandated the Student Government Info Session be given priority access to the Cohen Auditorium,
• Insisted that Perelman Quad not “upgrade” room reservations without prior notice and consent of groups booking rooms. Once a room is assigned, barring priority-order conflicts, that room should not be reassigned.
• In the case of reassignments, the UA asked VPUL Facilities to not reassign any room assigned to a student group without notifying the affected groups at least sixteen (16) calendar days in advance of the booking.
• Ensured that notice of early bookings for the next academic year (usually made available in March) be communicated to the UA and to SAC and distributed widely to the undergraduate population.

These policies are slated to go into effect in Fall 2009.