Dear Richard,

Thank you for sharing GPSA Resolution 3: Recommendation for the Graduate and Professional Student Activity Fee for 2016-2018, which sets the Graduate and Professional Student Activity Fee at $85. I appreciate the thoroughness the members of the GPSA have given to this process. I approve this resolution as written, and will recommend the $85 as the Graduate and Professional Student Activity Fee when we submit our budget guidelines to the Trustees in January.

Best wishes for the new year,

Elizabeth Garrett

Dear Juliana,

Thank you for sharing SA Resolution 19: Transfer Option and First Year Spring Admits Newsletter. I appreciate the Student Assembly’s interest in duly welcoming newly admitted freshmen and transfer students and working closely with prospective students who have been encouraged to reapply to Cornell under the terms of the Transfer Option (TO) program.

Dear Juliana,

Dear Juliana,

Thank you for sharing SA Resolution 20: Campus Records to Promote LGBTQ+ Inclusivity. I appreciate the Student Assembly’s interest in creating a safer and more inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ students by allowing the use of a preferred name other than their legal name and indication of preferred gender identity on campus records. I strongly support the concept of these proposed changes and have directed the relevant offices to do their best to implement these changes as logistically possible.

Dear President Garrett,

I would like to convey Resolution 33: Supporting the Establishment of a Veterans Resource Center to you. This resolution is sponsored by Matthew Indimine (Ex-Officio Representative from the University Assembly), Dustin Liu (Freshman Representative), Seamus Murphy (President of Cornell Undergraduate Veterans Association), and David Outlaw (Member of Cornell Undergraduate Veterans Association).

Dear President Garrett,

I would like to convey Resolution 31: Approving the Spring 2016 Elections Rules to you. This resolution was sponsored by our Director of Elections Matthew Henderson. The resolution seeks to update the elections rules of the Student Assembly and directly elected undergraduate seats on the University Assembly.

Dear President Garrett,

I would like to convey Resolution 28: Improving Research Matching for Students and Professors to you. This resolution is sponsored by Student Assembly representatives Gabriel Kaufman and Ben Bacharach and Adam Bronfin as a member of the Academic Policy Committee.

Dear President Garrett,

I would like to convey Resolution 27: Ending Bottled Water Sales on Cornell Campus to you. This resolution was sponsored by Emma Johnston (Executive Vice President), Emily Dong (Environmental Committee Chair), and student organization including the Cornell Environmental Collective [ECO], Take Back the Tap, KyotoNOW!, and the Society for Natural Resource Conservation.

Dear President Garrett,

It is my duty to convey to you U.A. Resolution 3 "Adoption of an Inclusive Restroom, Locker Room, and Gender-Specific Facility Usage Policy."

This resolution was sponsored by our Ranking Employee Member Ulysses Smith on behalf of the Assembly's Campus Welfare Committee and Brian Patchcoski (Associate Dean of Students & Director LGBT Resource Center). It was passed by the full Assembly at our meeting of December 1, 2015.

Dear President Garrett,

I would like to convey Resolution 26: Promoting Justice and Friendship in the Housing Lottery to you. This resolution is sponsored by Gabriel Kaufman, Erinn Liu, Dustin Liu, and Justin Selig from the Student Assembly and Christian Welling and Patricia Mawn-Malhau from the Residential Student Congress. The resolution suggests a two-part lottery system to guarantee that students can live with their friends, reduce politicking, and give more time to freshmen to select blocking units.