2008 Woodie Awards
SGA presidential candidates announce candidacy, vision for future
Brendan Block
Brendan Block
Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: Forum
Some Presidential candidates choose to announce their candidacy on Jay Leno or on YouTube, but I choose to announce my SGA presidency in our biggest media outlet: The Omnibus.
In my nearly two years as a student at SBU, I have been passionate about student issues and an advocate greater student participation in our campus-life experience.
The main problem that hinders us is students currently struggle to participate and find a voice to influence the policies of this school.
We have begun to find our voice under the leadership of President Ivry Karamitros, and I plan put the student body fully in gear for the 2008-2009 year.
With my experience as freshman vice-president last year, SGA representative and forum editor this year, the concerns of students are always fresh in my mind as they have been topics of discussions during SGA meetings and in my articles for this newspaper.
Primarily, students on campus are concerned with issues that are not student friendly like visitation policies, sidewalk conditions during winter time, Facebook photos being blocked, XBox Live being blocked, no cooperation for a partial release for our school budget and the SBU Bookstore book return policy.
I've written articles and petitioned for our long fight for more visitation, which finally might become a reality. As a result of SGA's campaign for more visitation, each dorm is given four extra visitation days to use at their discretion throughout the semester.
I also plan on pushing for more salt on our parking lots and more workers to shovel our sidewalks in the wintertime so students can go to class safely including other common sense solutions on how to achieve safety in inclement weather for a 100-acre campus. Students should not have to reason between twisting an ankle or going to class.
Earlier in this semester, students realized that SBU's Internet filter had blocked many of their Facebook photos. My concerns intensified when I found on my Facebook profile approximately 20 of the first 40 pictures were unable to be viewed in the SBU network.
In my nearly two years as a student at SBU, I have been passionate about student issues and an advocate greater student participation in our campus-life experience.
The main problem that hinders us is students currently struggle to participate and find a voice to influence the policies of this school.
We have begun to find our voice under the leadership of President Ivry Karamitros, and I plan put the student body fully in gear for the 2008-2009 year.
With my experience as freshman vice-president last year, SGA representative and forum editor this year, the concerns of students are always fresh in my mind as they have been topics of discussions during SGA meetings and in my articles for this newspaper.
Primarily, students on campus are concerned with issues that are not student friendly like visitation policies, sidewalk conditions during winter time, Facebook photos being blocked, XBox Live being blocked, no cooperation for a partial release for our school budget and the SBU Bookstore book return policy.
I've written articles and petitioned for our long fight for more visitation, which finally might become a reality. As a result of SGA's campaign for more visitation, each dorm is given four extra visitation days to use at their discretion throughout the semester.
I also plan on pushing for more salt on our parking lots and more workers to shovel our sidewalks in the wintertime so students can go to class safely including other common sense solutions on how to achieve safety in inclement weather for a 100-acre campus. Students should not have to reason between twisting an ankle or going to class.
Earlier in this semester, students realized that SBU's Internet filter had blocked many of their Facebook photos. My concerns intensified when I found on my Facebook profile approximately 20 of the first 40 pictures were unable to be viewed in the SBU network.
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