Student Government

The Committee on Student Life will work to improve the lives of students by focusing on a variety of student concerns including minority and activist issues, health insurance concerns, community relations, and will also run the complaints.uchicago.edu website. This committee also runs the SG/RSO Variety Show at Summer Breeze. The Variety Show will showcase different performance organizations and gives them a chance to expose themselves to the campus community. The committee will address activist and minority concerns ranging from University Employment issues, community relations with the University, the Universities policies toward non-political stances or the Kalven Report, and the new Diversity Center coming to campus. A member will serve on the University Committee on Minority Affairs. The committee is also charged with the task of evaluating a variety of University polices effecting student health issues (i.e. Health Insurance/Packages) and will meeting with administrators and slate members to evaluate the effectiveness of university policies and cost in all health fields. The members of this committee will field all complaints from the Student Government complaints website and respond to those complaints as well as visit different houses and student organizations on campus to talk to students about their concerns. Members of the Student Life Committee interested in community serve will have an opportunity to work on improving relations between the university community and its surrounding neighborhoods by working with neighborhood leaders to foster a better working relationship and serving on university committees including the Community Service Fund.