ASUAF December 3 Recap
By Britany Adorno-Alicea
Closing out the semester and sending us off into the holidays, ASUAF held their last meeting and went over the final guest speakers and travel fund requests of the fall semester.
Colin Murray and Kel Gitter, management at Nanook Technology Services, came with other members of the Collaboration and Learning Spaces and System Engineering to discuss the changes being made to DUO, a security log-in app. There will be changes made to the DUO mobile app, requiring push verification. This is due to users receiving fraudulent pushes and accidentally exposing their accounts to third parties. This will simply be an extra step to the logging in process for mobile app users.
After December 18, technology services will be removing the phone call method for DUO verification. This is because the phone call method is considered the least secure and reliable method of access and is the most vulnerable to phishing attacks. They urge anyone who hasn’t set up a new method of authentication to do so soon, because when this method goes away on Dec. 18, students will be blocked out of their accounts.
President Jackson Nelson met with Kaydee Van Flein, director of the Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability, to discuss the current Title IX training. Starting in the spring, with the help of Josh Hovis, student engagement director of the Wood Center, along with numerous faculty, students, administration, and other partners there will be work done to invest in a quality training program that is UAF specific.
In the first reading of legislation, the senate went over travel funds for Matt Jardin to present his research paper at the Western States Communication Association’s 96th annual convention; travel funds for Sammy Bass to study abroad at Sogong University in Seoul, South Korea; and travel funds for Keith Weisel to also study abroad in South Korea.
The senate moved to expedite the two bills read in the first reading to the second calling for more automatic external defibrillators in the residence halls and foosball table purchasing for the Wood Center.
The senate then moved to adopt several requests for club funding: the Oakley Powell Memorial Plaque Bill, an award to honor the late senator Oakley Powell; travel funds for Matt Jardin, Sammy Bass, and Keith Weisel, investment in Wood Center foosball balls, and the AED access to the residence halls.
Victoria Thompson announced the Wood Center hours during winter break. The Wood Center will be open during break for activities for students who are staying on campus over the holidays.
Senator Sammy Bass officially resigned as Senate Chair of the next session and will be returning as Senator when he returns from his study abroad in South Korea, and Senator Bonnie Brennan has taken his place as Senate Chair. Senator Lilly Varney resigned from the Senate and will be taking over as our Public Relations Director December 8th.
ASUAF meets every Wednesday at 5:15 p.m. in the Senate Chambers in the Wood Center. Students are welcome to join and voice concerns to the members of the senate. For students not attending in-person, zoom links are available at www.uaf.edu/asuaf/meetings.