The Graduate Student Government is no longer frozen, according to a letter from an ASU administrator sent on Jan. 28.
Lara Klinkner, the assistant director of Student Connection and Community, told GSG leadership in the letter that the organization "has been removed from frozen status effectively immediately."
Assembly Speaker Cole Cloyd, a PhD student studying religious studies, said in a written statement that GSG was granted permission to meet on Jan. 24 to confirm Ramachandra Kulkarni, a graduate student studying information technology, as the new GSG president.
A previous vacancy in the presidency was among the reasons that GSG was paused, according to a letter Klinkner sent on Jan. 16. Klinkner also cited a failure to submit updated governing documents and procedures regarding conflict-of-interest disclosure forms to the organization's oversight committee, a task that Cloyd said has since been completed.
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In the Jan. 28 letter, Klinkner said the confirmation of a new president had satisfied the University's student organization rules.
Cloyd said he and Kulkarni met with the oversight committee on Jan. 26 to discuss the issue of the disclosure forms and how they might be amended.
"As far as I know right now, all of the documents we submitted to the Oversight Committee–the election code, bylaws, constitution, and new conflict-of-interest disclosure forms–are still being reviewed," Cloyd said.
Kulkarni did not respond to requests for comment.
Edited by Carsten Oyer, Henry Smardo, Sophia Braccio and Pippa Fung.
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