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Speaker of the Student Senate Victoria Owens speaks in affirmation of an act creating a scholarship to help students get tested for ADHD, autism or learning disabilities at a meeting on March 12.

SGA creates fund to help students obtain ADHD, autism or learning disability diagnoses

Ainsley Smyth, News Editor
March 15, 2025
Senator Cynthia Pizzini voices her opinion on the Accommodations and Professor Accountability resolution during a senate meeting on Wednesday, March 12. Pizzini spoke in favor, saying it would help students.

Student Senate unanimously calls for “professor accountability” in honoring accommodations

Ainsley Smyth, News Editor
March 14, 2025
Senator Patrick Murphy speaks during public forum during Wednesday's SGA meeting. Murphy expressed concerns with The Sunflower's review on the WSU production of 'Spring Awakening.'

Student Government senator critiques The Sunflower’s ‘Spring Awakening’ review

Mya Scott, Reporter
March 14, 2025
Senators Cynthia Pizzini and Adriana Owens raise their hands at a Student Senate meeting on March 12.

Here are your candidates for next year’s student body president, vice president and more

Megan Bailey
March 14, 2025
Student Government Association adviser Gabriel Fonseca addresses the Student Senate on March 4. This meeting was held in emergency due to the $900,000 deficit in student fees.

Campus groups, programs react to slashed funding

Allison Campbell, Editor-in-Chief
March 13, 2025
Senators vote on legislation at Tuesday nights meeting. This was an emergency meeting regarding a $900,000 deficit in student fees to fund services and organizations.

Miscalculated: Student Government faces student fees shortfall for 2025 and 2026. Here’s what we know.

Ainsley Smyth, News Editor
March 13, 2025
A student walks to the Rhatigan Student Center on Wichita State's campus in November.

Student services and organizations face major cuts following university budget shortfall

Kami Steinle and Mia Hennen
March 8, 2025
Microphones reserved for Student Government Assocation senators sit unused during the Student Senate meeting on April 10.

‘This is their livelihood’: Task force works to build disability protections into WSU

Allison Campbell, Editor-in-Chief
March 6, 2025
Senators vote on legislation at Tuesday nights meeting. This was an emergency meeting regarding a $900,000 deficit in student fees to fund services and organizations.

Student Senate allows for extra funding in response to student fees shortfall

Ainsley Smyth, News Editor
March 5, 2025
Sen. Andrew Bobbitt , a member of the Student Fees Commission, speaks at the commission's first hearing to decide student fee allocations. After the committee learned of a shortfall in funding, the hearing was rescheduled for Wednesday, March 3.

Students might pay more fees and see cuts to services next year due to decreased full-time enrollment

Ainsley Smyth, News Editor
March 3, 2025
Jia Wen Wang's gavel lies on the table as the Student Fees Committee Hearings take place on March 4, 2024. Wang serves as the student body treasurer for the Student Government Association. (file photo)

WSU faces $900,000 shortfall; student fees committee asks organizations what budget cuts would mean for them

Mia Hennen, Managing Edtior
March 3, 2025
Kylee Hower, the student body president, delievers the State of the Student Body address. Hower spoke about discrimination she's faced as a woman in leadership, the duties and responsibilities of Student Government and unfinished Senate business.

Monday is last day to enter race for Student Government

Megan Bailey, Reporter
March 2, 2025
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