The Mississippi State University Student Association is holding a committee meeting tonight in preparation for the Nov. 8 business meeting. The committees will primarily furtherprogress on incorporating MSU’s previously separate Starkville and Meridian campus’ SA as well as redrafting a resolution supporting allowing students’ to reschedule mid-semester tests in the same manner as final exams.
On Oct. 13, SA passed Bill 8, creating a new appointed position on the Executive Council to oversee all SA activities and events at the Meridian campus, as well as a new seat in Senate to be elected by the Meridian student body. 
SA President Jojo Dodd said SA opened nominations for the new Executive Council position, and by 5 p.m. that day had received three responses already. Dodd said SA has no set closing date for nominations, and will decide when to move forward by judging the flow of submissions.
The new Senate seat will be filled during next fall’s regular election. The number of Meridian seats in Senate is decided in the same manner as the number of the Starkville campus’, one representative for every 650 students. 
In addition to a senator, Meridian students will now be able to seek seats in the newly combined Executive Council, Meridian’s Senator can be selected to represent SA’s vote in committees with MSU administration and will vote in all SA elections.
Dodd said bringing the two campuses’ Student Associations into one body has been in talks for a while, and he began the project  last semester. 
Resolution 20 is another project SA has begun work on. The resolution, which was tabled during last week’s business meeting, is under review and will be redrafted with the intent of its return to the table Oct. 8. 
Sunny Patel, who is involved in Resolution 20’s process, said if passed, Resolution 20 will state it is in the interest of the student body to allow students with more than two regular semester tests occurring on the same day to reschedule. The process is similar to the way end of semester exams are currently handled.
“Resolutions are the voice of the student body,” Patel said. “They aim to formally bring up issues students are interested in.” 
Patel said he believed that Resolution 20 would make it to to the table next week, and was tabled in order to allow for time to improve the language. 
“It was flawed, it had some things that needed to be addressed and rewritten,” Patel said. “We don’t want to pass something that isn’t fully developed.”
While there is currently no certainty on if or when this will pass, Dodd and Patel both have stated they believe it will once the document is finalized. 
“It’s very early in the process, not much to be said until after (Tuesday’s) meeting,” Patel said. 
Dodd said this is one of the first steps in the process.
“(Over scheduled tests) is an issue that needs to be addressed,” Dodd said.