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President's Corner - How to Join SGA

Open Spots Still Available in Student Government

By Nick Russo

On October 14, 2011

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Welcome to the first edition of the 2011/2012 Student Government Association President's Corner. I plan to write a short update in The Critic once every week to update the LSC student body on the work of the SGA.

I hope the year has been off to a great start for all Lyndon State College students. I know from the perspective of the SGA executive board, we have been having an awesome year so far. Elected representative elections were held in mid-September and those elections resulted in 13 SGA elected reps. joining the SGA.

Since then, the SGA has added four additional elected reps. through a petition/nomination process that occurs during the "other business" portion of our meetings, bringing the total number of SGA elected reps. to 17. There are still 13 open seats on the SGA, which consists of three open seats for second year rep, two open seats for third year rep, two open seats for fourth year rep, one open seat for commuter rep, and five open seats for non-traditional students.

Any student who wants to join the SGA is welcome to take a petition from the Student Activities and Leadership Center office, obtain 50 signatures from current LSC students, and come to an SGA meeting with petition in hand to be nominated.

If you don't have the time to commit to being a rep., we welcome all students to attend our meetings. We have a designated student body comments section where any student is welcome to share any thoughts or concerns with the SGA, and attending a meeting is a great way to hear what is happening on campus. Also, in next week's edition of the President's Corner, I will be talking about the internal SGA committees that are open to all students.

At our most recent meeting on Wednesday, motions were passed to approve a $615.00 request to the Spirit Squad for new tops and WWLR received $815 to approve a new EAS alert system. Full meeting minutes from the first three meetings of the year are on www.lyndonsga.com.

The SGA distributes funding to over 30 officially recognized LSC clubs, works on policy initiatives (improving campus food services, for example), and addressing the needs of all LSC students. Please let me know how I can better serve you. I'm always quick to respond to emails at nicholas.russo@lsc.vsc.edu. Good luck on mid-terms everyone!