With hopes to involve more students, the Student Government Association will host its senate meeting on the Quad today, instead of in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
The "traveling senate" is one of its platform points, and SGA has different locations planned almost once a month throughout the year.
Senate meetings are normally held in the Student Center's Cardinal Hall B, where there is a gallery of students who can ask questions and bring up issues.
"All of our meetings are actually open meetings," SGA President Chris Wilkey said. "It's just they're not very well publicized in Cardinal Hall B in the Student Center, so we wanted to do something where people get a little excited."
The meeting will be from 3:15 p.m. to 5 p.m., but students are welcome to join the meeting as long as SGA is still present on the Quad.
"I think we're going to have a few more students at least stop and wonder what's going on and at least come up and approach the gallery that's sitting there watching and ask a few questions," Wilkey said. "So we think there may be a little more interaction than a secluded room in the Student Center."
SGA is going to update its Facebook page and Twitter account with the locations of the meetings throughout the year.
"I think it's going to be good for the student government to get their organizational meetings out there," Jacob Kluth, SGA's press secretary, said. "A lot of the times students don't know where and when they take place. When they're being more visible, they're going to generate more students to come out and see what they're talking about and get more students involved."
If rain prevents the senate from meeting on the Quad, it will meet in Cardinal Hall B.
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