Over the summer, as the campus settled into a peaceful break, the remnants of last spring’s vote of no confidence and a divided SGA general council still loomed in the air.

The SGA office in UWAC 107 still held the past ideas of former President Doug Mercado. The initiative last year was to unite the students, and SGA even opened a little coffee station in their office in order to provide students a place to come and discuss issues over a cup of Joe.  
           
This year, that barely used coffee maker is nowhere to be seen. As a matter of fact, last time it was seen it was rotted over (apparently never cleaned), resulting in an unusable machine.

The meaning behind this? That the goals of SGA vary from president to president, one may want to build an open line of communication between students and representatives another may want to start a grassroots operation, ending student apathy.
           
Will the initiatives of this year’s presidency end similar to last, with leftover ideas rotting away in an empty office? Or will they inspire the students of OLLU to realize that their tuition and time entitle them to make decisions and change the way the university views student voices?

It remains to be seen but the hopes are that these changes will lead SGA to come to a quorum, and pass resolutions that will help the student body.