TANNARA YELLAND
Associate News Editor

The weekly meeting of the University Students’ Council held on Feb. 4 was short and sweet.

University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union vice-president finance and resources Scott Hitchings put forward a motion to approve the fee strategy document, which provides guidelines in setting student fees.

“It’s not strict rules,” Hitchings said. “It’s just a set of principles to guide us.”

The document has guidelines specific to accessibility, affordability, equality and sustainability.

The aim of sustainability is to ensure student fees do not increase so much they negatively impact enrolment.

After Hitchings’ explanation, the motion was passed with no debate.

Two initiatives were held off to the next meeting because they are the work of USSU president Warren Kirkland, who was absent from the meeting. Kirkland has been working to develop an on-campus brewery, which would allow the USSU to open an off-sale liquor store. He has also been working on a student housing initiative. Discussion and voting for both were deferred to the Feb. 11 meeting.

USSU vice-president academic affairs Daniel McCullough rose to inform everyone that the final exam schedule was posted to PAWS on Feb. 2, and College of Arts and Science representative Keith Flysack rose to make the by now all-too-familiar plea for students to buy coffee from the Arts and Science Students’ Union office by the Arts and Science lounge. It remains to be seen if this approach will ever be effective.

The last piece of business at the meeting was the election of a new member of the external affairs board. USSU vice-president external affairs Chris Stoicheff nominated new Arts and Science representative Leon Thompson, and with no other nominations, Thompson accepted the role.

Thus ended one of the many short meetings of the USC.