Recently, a student posted an editorial on how the SGA is a sham. This just goes to the show the ignorance that this current student body has on the SGA. Students today feel that the SGA is just a popularity contest. They feel its just about faces on flyers, but it is much, much more than that.

The SGA makes student clubs and organizations run. SGA lends their support to these organizations, funding them, sponsoring activities on campus. The SGA handles tuition money, so students better start caring and getting involved.

If students feel its a sham, then do something about it! Run for an executive position, run for a senate spot and actually do something about it. It is easy to whine and complain, it’s even more difficult to actually go out and do something about it.

While some may disagree, SGA does play a factor in school policy and decision making. They do this through student spots on the faculty senate, which frequently go vacated and empty. This just goes to prove my point, it’s easy for students to complain and bicker about SGA, but it means absolutely nothing unless you actually try and change it.

The biggest problem with the student body is a lack of student involvement and student apathy. I have heard a number of excuses of why people cannot simply go online and vote for the SGA elections, saying “Oh, I’m too busy.” I’ve heard that plenty of times, only to see them surfing the net and going on Facebook hours of a day.

If you feel that the SGA just “takes our money and does whatever they want with it,” then, how about you actually do something about it?

– Matthew Kitson