Student Senate Member Corey Mullee Talk About His Current Projects

Lang Student Senate Corey Mulle assisted last Thursday to the first informal meeting of the university student senate where their discussed their individual goals for the ongoing academic year. Corey Mulle, who was elected to this seat in February 10, 2010 out of five other candidates, won the election by 34% of the vote.

The meeting was held at a local coffee shop near the school where the entire student senate of the university came together to prioritize the issues that are affecting the most the student population. “Among the many things that need to be done at Lang alone,” Corey Mulle explained, “I first want to inform the Lang and the entire New School community that the student senate has the power and the funding to advocate for its student.” Mulle claims that the student body is not aware of the resources, support and power that the student senate possess, which is at the disposition of the students. He additionally added that “informing the Lang community thoroughly about the role of the student senate is vital for the oncoming projects.”

Corey Mulle, a sophomore in the Urban Studies field, first came interested in becoming a student senate while writing for the school press. Mulle shared during the conference that his experienced as a writer in the school press and being also a student in the school made him quiet aware of the issues and problems that are increasingly affecting students, but that are merely talked about it. Among theses issues, he emphasized the need of a functioning and assessable printer at the Lang building for which, according to Mulle, funding can be easily allocated.

Mulle surely have won the support of Lang student Gizela Aponte who shared the need of a printing machine at the Lang facility. “We pay a lot of money to come this college,” Aponte commented to me as I approach her in the computer lap at 65 W 11th st building, “and we have to move back and forward just to print. It is annoying.” Mulle proposes to work on these types of issue, which he believe will make a huge different for the Lang students.

The student senate was officially recognized on April 2007 and since then it has undergone numerous structural changes. This is the fourth student election since it was officially legitimize and to the date, there are students who claims that it has done poorly in improving the experience of the students. Jay Taylor, a sophomore at Lang, claims that the student senate members “become only false promises…you can’t point out anything they have done that truly benefit the student community.”

Of course this only one student account, nonetheless it raises considerable questions as to what the student senate has achieved in the past 3 years. Mulle assure all students that he is committed to serve the students and will work to change the negative perception that students might have through achievement.

It has only been a week since this first informal meeting and the student senate agenda is already up and running at their website. There is not a schedule meeting at this time, thus the student senate declared that they would start working in the most urgent issues immediately.