Students will soon have access to Student Congress agendas and meeting minutes through a new Web site, a UOSA representative said.
“This is going to provide students with access to all of our information online,” said Spencer Pittman, Student Congress spokesman. “Rather than have to refer to the media to understand what’s going on in Congress, people can hear directly from us.”
The Web site, congress.ou.edu, will have a list of all representatives, agendas, meeting minutes, Student Congress bylaws and other documents pertinent to student government, Pittman said.
“It’s going to be very user-friendly so that students can recognize who their representatives are,” Pittman said. “It’s going to show who we are as individuals.”
The site will also have a blog for each committee to help make it easier for students to find out what’s going on in each group.
“We want people to be as involved as possible and this will allow a forum for feedback,” Pittman said.
The Web site would have been up sooner if not for delays, Student Congress Vice Chairman Matthew Gress said.
“Basically we had a few viruses that were hacking our password inserting a virus into the code,” Gress said. “We had to change the password four or five times.”
He said the problem has been fixed and there is no risk of personal information being stolen.
“We think it was just a random program causing mischief,” Gress said.
Gress said the Web site would be useful to members of Congress as well as regular students.
“I think it’s going to make Student Congress less intimidating,” Gress said. “The Web site is going to be a database ... for new members and people interested in Student Congress to use and help understand [Student Congress] better.”
Current agendas and meeting minutes should be available on the Web site within a week and half to two weeks, Gress said.
“We consider this a service to the students to let them know what’s going on and how we’re voting,” Pittman said. “It’s really about transparency. We want students to understand what we’re doing.”
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wiggin 2 years, 3 months ago
“Basically we had a few viruses that were hacking our password inserting a virus into the code,” Gress said. “We had to change the password four or five times.”
WHAT IS THIS GUY EVEN TALKING ABOUT??