RHA to take control of hall council funding.
The roughly 30 hall councils will no longer be funded directly by the Undergraduate Student Government. The USG Senate voted to approve the 2011 Responsible Hall Council Funding Act, which will make RHA an independent agency of the Senate and will receive an annual budget that will be used to fund the hall councils.
This act has been in the works over the past year. The primary reason for it is to save USG time to deal with other clubs, since the hall councils allocate more than any other club.
This act has taken effect immediately and all hall councils will have until March 18 to submit their budget applications to USG for the Spring 2011 budget process. They will be removed from the line budget beginning with the 2011-2012 USG budget.

New Executive Vice President Confirmed
Deborah Machalow was confirmed as the new executive vice president of USG. She will take office at 12:02 a.m. on Tuesday, March 8.
“I’m really quite excited about this opportunity to serve the entire undergraduate student body,” Machalow said. “I’m hoping the transition process will be as seamless and as unobtrusive as possible. I have big shoes to fill, and I hope I won’t disappoint anyone.”
Machalow was President Matthew Graham’s nominee.
“She’s been in USG a long time,” said Graham who thinks there is no one better. “She has a lot of experience.”