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Officials name senior vice president, chief of staff
By Fiona Riley, Assistant News Editor • March 26, 2024

SA Notes

SA Cabinet shakes up again

Student Association President Lamar Thorpe’s cabinet is not shaping up as planned.

Interim vice president of academic affairs, sophomore Hayley Haldeman, announced her resignation from Thorpe’s cabinet this week. The move marks the second departure of one of Thorpe’s top advisers since he took office four months ago.

In August, sophomore Peter Fu withdrew his nomination for vice president of judicial and legislative affairs after holding the interim position since May.

Haldeman and Fu were acting as interim vice presidents because they failed to garner the two-thirds majority of the Senate needed to be confirmed for the cabinet-level positions.

Junior Nick D’Addario also failed to receive confirmation from the Senate last May for vice president of undergraduate student policy, but Thorpe has re-nominated the former Senator for the post.

Thorpe announced this week his nomination of former Senator Elliot Gillerman, a junior, for the VPAA position. Sophomore Christopher Wimbush has been the acting VPJLA since Fu’s announcement in August and Thorpe has nominated the former Senate staff member for the VPJLA position this year.

Thorpe said despite the resignation of Haldeman and the departure of Fu from his cabinet, he is confident the list of his top advisers will remain the same. First, however, his three vice presidential nominees must be confirmed by full SA Senate. All three vice presidential nominees passed through the six-member SA Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday night six votes to zero. They will be considered by the full SA Senate next Tuesday night

“I think it’s going to happen,” Thorpe said of all three of his vice presidential nominees being confirmed.

“The SA is getting along great now, (the executive) and the senate have a strong working relationship.”

Despite D’Addario’s term as a Senator and his candidacy for president last year, the Senate failed to confirm him as vice president for undergraduate policy, citing a lack of tangible work completed.

“Nick has come to be someone I can rely on,” Thorpe said of D’Addario’s work in the House of Freshman, a program to increase freshmen campus involvement, and working to put free condoms in residence halls.

“He’s done a lot for me now,” Thorpe said.

The Senate will meet Sept.12 for their first meeting of the year.

-Brandon Butler

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