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City Officials Speak to Students. City Officials Speak to Five Students.
Student Union Hosts Panel to Link Students With City
Published: Friday, January 30, 2009
Boston University’s Student Union hosted a panel dedicated to “opening up a channel between city officials and students” Thursday to an audience of only six students in an attempt to involve the student body with its surroundings beyond Commonwealth Avenue, Union President Matt Seidel said.
“The Union should function not just as a government, but as an advocacy group,” Seidel said.
The panel was part of the Union’s larger goal to unite the efforts of students, city officials and different clubs on campus with similar goals, Seidel said.
Assistant to the Dean of Students, Katherine Hasenauer, mediated the discussion and presented questions to city officials about how students could have a broader impact on their communities and the importance of being involved.
“Being a student at Boston University and living in Boston are not mutually exclusive,” City Councilor-At-Large Sam Yoon’s representative David Halbert said. “You have to understand that you are both a Boston University student and a resident of Brookline, Allston, or wherever you live in the city.”
