On Wednesday, I was shocked to hear the immaturity of students and actions that the Student Government Association took in regards to Julie Austin, the financial controller. Austin, a well-respected leader amongst the SGA, was thrown under the bus due to a comment she made over a year ago. […]

  I had an incredible experience at the Inaugural National Campus Leadership Council (NCLC) summit in Washington D.C. last weekend.  NCLC was formed earlier this year as a non-partisan organization in order to create a network of Student Body President’s from across the country.  The goal is that we would […]

  Our future is bleak. At the end of fiscal year 2011, our federal government’s gross debt was 14.8 trillion dollars or about 99 percent of our economy. Our total liabilities and unfunded obligations totaled 65.5 trillion dollars. Even if you’re not a math major, you can see that we […]

  There are many ways for students to be compensated for hard work that goes “above and beyond to serve the greater good.” But there is only one way for students to be paid out of the activity fees of their fellow students. That way is to take advantage of […]

  Welcome to the home stretch of the LSC academic year.  In the world of student government, that means executive board election time.   Elections will start on Monday, April 16 at 10 am and last until Wednesday, April 18 at 4 pm. Most voting will be done online at www.lyndonsga.com.   […]

  Good news for Criminal Justice majors. By the time you graduate at the rate things are going, there will be ample job opportunities right next door. First there was the Village of Lyndonville’s demand to Chief Harris to crank up traffic and parking tickets to help meet this year’s […]

  In the prosperous years after World War II, Willie Sutton became one of the most famous men in America. His picture hung on the walls of post offices across the country. People who had no idea who the postmaster general of the United States was knew practically everything about […]

    There’s a required course at Lyndon State College that every matriculated student must take, must pay for, carries no credits toward any degree and yet if students apply themselves, carries many valuable lessons about life after college. Let’s call the  course SGA 101, Principles of Student Government. Like […]

  The SGA has made great strides this year.  With the addition of several new clubs including the Model United Nations Club, the Mountain Bike Club, and the return of the Literary Society and the Gay-Straight Alliance, there are many exciting new opportunities for student involvement. Will women’s lacrosse and […]

Each week, I rant about apathy and how apparent it is here at Lyndon. I sound like a broken record, but I believe that we as young people can change the future of our country. Each day as I advocate involvement in local government, I continually feel like I […]