The Student Government Association passed a resolution Feb. 3 voicing its support for limiting smoking on campus to one or more designated areas.
Evan Brough, senator for the College of Business Administration, and Michael Kent, an SGA First Year Intern, co-authored the resolution entitled “A Resolution of the Student Government Association of the University of Texas-Pan American Recommending the Control of Public Smoking on Campus.”
Brough said the results of the SGA “Ace the Test” survey, which students fill out in order to receive free Scantrons from SGA, pushed him to write the resolution.
“I heard people complaining about the smoking,” said the SGA presidential candidate, “and in a routine review of the … survey, I read the high number of people in favor of some kind of control.”
The University’s faculty senate also passed their own similar version of the resolution supporting designated smoking areas on Wednesday.
These approved resolutions are recommendations to be passed up to the administration, which then decides whether any more definite action for designated smoking areas will be taken.