Student Council's representative body yesterday evening passed three resolutions which honor the three students who passed away this academic year.
The resolutions extend a statement of loss to the deceased students; commit to improving the rights, opportunities and quality of life of every University student in their honor; and indicate a resolve to observe an official day of mourning to acknowledge the passing of the students.
The first resolution honors Momina Cheema, a Law School student who died in June. The second and third resolutions honor fourth-year Engineering student Jonathan Adam Hukari, who passed away in November, and second-year College student Julia Hardcastle, who passed away in February.
"Every year Student Council sponsors student memorials for students who have passed in the past year... as a token of our gratitude for that person's life and the people that they touched while here," Council President Dan Morrison said in his introduction of the resolutions. "It is traditional to pass a resolution, commemorating them and remembering them, that we will be able to give to the family."
The student memorial date and location have yet to be determined, but Council hopes to hold the students' memorial services in mid-April. Council will adjust the remembrance resolutions to include this information.
"These resolutions are not only giving their peers but also their families an opportunity to come together and remember someone who made this place very special," Morrison said.
Council passed the resolutions en bloc to save time in the legislative process. Normal Council convention requires a resolution to be tabled for a week after it is introduced, but Council waived the bylaws to pass the resolutions yesterday.
Council also passed a resolution supporting students' vision for sustainability at the University. The resolution text, written by students across several of the University's schools, states it hopes to encourage each school to develop an effective sustainability program.
The Darden School is currently the only school with such a program, but the Architecture School is in the process of creating one.
"[The passage of this resolution is] assembling the foundation for what has already been a big movement at U.Va. for the past couple of years," said Michael Promisel, second-year College student and representative, who sponsored the bill.
He said the results of Council's Spring 2012 Penny for Your Thoughts survey showed the student support for environmental sustainability. The results found 68 percent of students felt "sustainability should be a part of every student's education."
Council will complete the transition and induction of its new members April 5.
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