DePauw Student Government began their Senate meeting on Sunday night with the sealing of the time capsule.
With the 175th committee, Carter McKay, DePauw student government director of public relations, spent weeks collecting memorable articles from sports teams, groups and other organizations on campus to put into a time capsule that will be saved in the student archives and opened in 25 years at the 200th anniversary of DePauw University.
Wesley Wilson, the leader of the committee and coordinator of archives and special collections at DePauw, conducted the brief ceremony.
The 175th committee focuses on drawing the DePauw community together with the assistance of Student Life, who put this project together. This time capsule project allowed students to submit something that will document for future generations what it is like to be a DePauw student today.
Other events put on by the committee have included blood drives, giveaways and contests to help get students involved and working together.
The DSG will be holding a public forum at the end of October which will describe the prototype through which they will go about electronically choosing classes for next semester. The event will take place on October 30 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Olin Biological Sciences building auditorium. Students will have the opportunity to see the new system the registrar is proposing as well as provide insight on how to make the system "student-friendly."
The forum is open to everyone, and all students are encouraged to attend. Registrar Ken Kirkpatrick will be describing the system changes.
DSG asks that the leaders of organizations and groups on campus attend and bring the important information back to their respective groups.
The Senate is also working with Civic, Global and Professional Opportunities and David Harvey to create a course that would combine an internship in Putnam County with a weekly class discussion regarding work in a small, rural town.
Senators are working with members of the CGPOPS office on requesting this course for future scheduling of classes and continuing talks on how to implement it as well as finding instructors to teach it.