SCUE elects new board

Kicking off its 30th year of service to the University community, the Student Committee for Undergraduate Education held its annual steering committee elections yesterday. This year's new steering committee will include Wharton junior Satya Patel as chairperson, Vice-Chairperson Sharna Goldseker, a College junior, Treasurer Eugene Huang, an Engineering sophomore, and Secretary Ellona Wilner, a College junior. Also on the steering committee are members-at-large College junior Adam Hellegers and Wharton sophomore Ben Nelson. "Our mission aims have been the same, but we have manifested them into different areas," Goldseker said. "We're always working on education reform." She added that SCUE will be focusing on a new white paper regarding minors at the University. SCUE, the campus' oldest branch of student government, is largely research-based, but has a legislative body composed of a 33-member general assembly. The assembly is responsible for electing the six-member steering committee. Departing chairperson and Management and Technology senior Matthew Kratter described his former post as "highly influential in regard to the undergraduate curriculum." Kratter said the past semester has been a difficult one for SCUE, as their plan to revise the University calender was defeated by Provost Stanley Chodorow. "This was a very challenging year to be selling SCUE to the new administrators," he added. "[But] I think this committee has positioned itself at the top of this University." The group plans to release their 1995 White Paper on Undergraduate Education on March 23, the date of their 30th anniversary. This compilation will represent a "comprehensive five-year evaluation of undergraduate education at the University," according to its original proposal. In the past, SCUE has been responsible for such major University changes as the fall break vacation and the pass/fail course option.

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