The Ashland University student senate held a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 9:30 p.m. in the ABCD conference room located on the second floor of the Hawkins-Conard Student Center with Dr. Campo attending to give his annual report.  

Elections will be held next Monday, Sept. 17, and Tuesday, Sept. 18 with fifteen students running for positions.  

The last day to drop classes is this Friday, Sept. 15.  

The next section of the meeting is Dr. Campo’s annual report in which he makes an effort each year to attend at least one meeting at the beginning of the year to speak with the student senators of AU.  

During this, he spoke on the newest campus changes.  

“Homecoming will feature the ribbon cutting of the USA house . . . the air-conditioning, the bathrooms have been redone, alums have really supported that effectively,” said Dr. Campo.  

Campo believes the USA bathroom model will become the model for other dorm bathrooms on campus in the future. 

As for the library café, tastings will be occurring soon, and student input will be needed when the menu is released publicly.   

“We will be the first school, I believe, in the history of Ohio, to have a Holocaust scholar, ‘Yad Vashem’ – it’s the Hebrew name for the Holocaust Museum for that side of Jerusalem,” said Campo, “That scholar will be here teaching, lecturing and helping us not to forget.”

This scholar is from Yad Vashem, the Shoah remembrance center in Jerusalem, Israel. He will not be offering for-credit classes but will be educating on the Holocaust and to combat Neo-Nazism.  

The student senate meets every Tuesday night at 9:30 p.m. in the ABCD conference room and is open to the public.