The last DSG Assembly meeting of the semester began by listing business they have completed this semester's.
One of the accomplishments is the new bulletin board inside the Hub to post flyers.
However, student body president Sara Scully, announced a new means, which has been used at other universities for student organizations to advertise their events.
"We have gotten approved funding for a television in the Hub," Scully said at the meeting.
The television will be student run, and Scully expressed her hope that it would provide a more interactive way for students to find out about events going on around campus.
Next semester, DSG plans on reevaluating the student activities fee, which is currently $205. Their requirements for this reevaluation is that the new funding will have to be affordable to students, a reliable source of money and offer enough resources for DePauw to continue programming they currently have.
Additionally, there will be a co-curricular inventory on all transcripts starting during Winter Term. As a result, advisors and professors will know upfront what their students are involved in. It also has the potential to strengthen letters of recommendations for graduate school and future employers because all of the faculty members that most likely would be writing these letters would have access to a list of each student's extra-curricular activities.
Freshman Ashley Ullyot thinks that this addition to the transcripts is a good idea.
"They can see what clubs I'm involved in and where my interests lie," Ullyot said.
However, the most controversial topic was the announcement of the change to the first-year seminar requirement for the students in the School of Music.
Starting next year, there will no longer be separated seminars between the School of Music and the College of Liberal Arts. As a result, school of music students will be taking the same writing intensive first-year seminar as students in the College of Liberal Arts.
"This is something that is really exciting for me personally because I have been working on it since my freshman year in student government," Scully said.
Yet, School of Music freshman Patrick Rutledge disagrees with this new policy and does not want to change the format of the seminars when it comes to the School of Music. With the current set up, he said he has the opportunity to get to know those in his seminar better.
"I like having that network of people within the School of Music already set up," Rutledge said. "During camp college, those are the people that we spend all of our time with. I like knowing all of them, being friends with them."
Rutledge claimed that the seminars in the School of Music are just as demanding as what he has heard from his friends in the College of Liberal Arts, and his desire to keep the same seminar is not rooted in a desire to keep an easier class.
"It's not so much that I don't want to take another seminar, but I feel like what we do as a class is thorough enough," Rutledge said.