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The 2005-2006 Student
Senate. (front row, left to right: Ryan Schilling '06,
Chip Hairston '09, Jim Gresham '08, John Baker '06
(Chairman), Charles Eberly '09, Parker McConnell '09,
Billy Gresham '08 (back row, left to right:
Sterling Whitehead '07, Michael Via '07, Ryan Ash '07.
Not Pictured: John Fountain '06, Wesley Julian '08,
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Like all democratic governments, student government at Hampden-Sydney College has three branches, the executive,
judicial, and legislative. The legislative branch of the H-SC Student Government is the Student Senate, whose 12
members are elected by class.
Unlike most government legislative bodies, the H-SC Student Senate does not confine its good works to passing funding
legislation. Community service also claims their time, resources, and labor. At the beginning of the year, Senators
teamed up with other student organizations to raise money for the Hurricane Katrina victims. They held a canned-food
drive before Thanksgiving break. The food went to FACES, the community food bank. The Senate also donated $200 to
FACES. After the first snowstorm in December, the Senate made a standing commitment to the elderly members of the
Hampden-Sydney community that whenever there was bad weather, the Senators could be on call to shovel, to salt
sidewalks and driveways, and to do other small tasks, free of charge.
 The Senate’s most recent service project was putting together care packages with DVDs, cereal, gatorade and
cool-aid mixes, pop-tarts, ramen noodles, pens, notepads, and envelopes for H-SC alumnus
John Bradenham '05,
who is on active duty in Iraq. Included in the package were also over 100 drawings expressing love and
encouragement from Prince Edward County Elementary School students. Mr. Charles A. Easley III, the principal
of the school, was very helpful help in getting the drawings.
 
The Student Senate plans on sending out another care package before the end of the semester, and they have committed itself to complete at least one community service project every semester.
In other business, the Senate, through the work of the members on the Senate Food Services,
committee played an advisory roll in the process of selecting a food-service
contractor. The Senate has also formed a permanent Senate Judiciary Committee
this year to deal with clubs that act in violation their constitutions. Thet are now in the process of writing bylaws for the Senate which will serve as a guide to carrying out the
powers given to the Senate by the Student Government Constitution.
 
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