Members of the residence halls will have the opportunity to meet their ASUI senators in a less formal setting Monday at “Meet Your Senators Night.”
“We always encourage residence halls to come to us and come to the third floor (of the Idaho Commons) for open houses and things like that, but we’ve never reached out to them,” said ASUI Vice President Juan Corona, who has been organizing the event. “We kind of want to change that — we want to go to them this time, instead of them coming to us.”
Corona said the goal is to increase communication between the residence halls and ASUI.
“There’s always kind of mislead communication, so we wanted a chance for senators to meet the residence halls outside of meetings and things like that,” Corona said. “We’re just hoping to increase communication.”
Corona said it is an opportunity for students to ask questions in a casual setting, as well as an opportunity for senators to get additional contact information for their residence hall living groups.
“We met last semester with RHA. We talked about ways we could increase (communication),” Corona said. “This was one of the ways they said, to kind of have an informal meeting where they can meet their senators, so that’s what we came up with.”
Corona said the event will include free pizza and door prizes throughout the night.
ASUI President Samantha Perez, Corona, and all of the senators will be attending the event.
“Its kind of the same concept (as ASUI at Bob’s), but it’s not related,” Corona said. “This is more for senators to get to know the residence halls.”
Corona said senators will be discussing anything the students want to know about ASUI.
“A lot of the information we’re hoping to present to them is like what committees the senators sit in, what do they do, what they represent. And then encourage them — since elections are coming up — encourage them to apply for ASUI. Inform them what ASUI is and everything that they do and how they can get involved,” Corona said.
Meet Your Senators Night will begin at 9:30 Monday in the Wallace Complex Basement.
“I just really, really encourage people to come and show up,” Corona said. “Have a good time, get to know your senators, bring questions if they have any, and don’t be afraid to ask them.”