Loyola Greyhound

Issue date: 3/15/08 Section: News

Platform for Geoff Browning ticket:

Geoff Browning - President
Joe Solimini - Vice President for Policy
Jackie Saliba - Vice President for Social Affairs

Fellow Greyhounds:

Who would you trust with $250,000 of your money?

Every year, the Loyola College SGA receives a large budget, which essentially comes from your tuition money. As such, we are duty-bound to include members of all grade levels, all on-campus groups, and all social circles, including yours. If we win this election, our administration will REVOLVE around your ideas, but here's what we initially promise you:

• Our executive cabinet selection process will be inviting, balanced, and fair. We want our cabinet to represent a complete cross section of the student body. The process will be completely objective and without bias.
• This will be a year of substantial bridge building between the SGA and CCSJ, Campus Ministry, RAC, club sports, and all organizations who'd like to work with us.
• We will work to make band selection 100% transparent; we will hold open meetings where you can give us ideas, question us directly about who we'd like to bring, and participate in one of SGA's most important duties.
• You should to be able to participate easily and freely in the 2008 Presidential election. We will co-operate with your home state authorities to provide easy access to absentee ballots/forms on campus, and SGA will pay for all relevant postage/costs.
• Our first semester in office, we will introduce a proposal to expand of-campus Evergreen swipe to Video Americain and Pizza Valla.

Combined, we are one high school student body president, four years of class presidents, an SGA business manager, a CCSJ assistant coordinator, an SGA class assemblyperson, one founding captain of a club sports team, one rubgy player, two high school varsity athletes, one freshman, one sophomore, and one junior. Signed, sealed, delivered: we're yours.

THREE GRADES, THREE VOICES, ONE TICKET:

Browning, Saliba, Solimini for SGA '08-09!

Platform for Alex Hollis ticket:

Alex Hollis '09 - President
Tracy Petruziello '09 - Vice President for Policy
Omani Guy '09 - Vice President for Social Affairs

Dear fellow students,??

We write to you as fellow students who have the honor and the privilege to be involved with you throughout various organizations on campus, live with you, and work along side you. Throughout our three years at Loyola, we have been involved in organizations such as the Student Government Association, ALANA, CCSJ, Student Life, and OPTIONS. Our goal is to bring all organizations on campus together along with the communities which they represent.?
Our passion is to enrich the lives and experiences of the student body and we would accomplish this by focusing on class spirit, diversity, communication, and unity. We will add events where we can bring the Loyola Community together to create support for one another. We will start an open forum of school-wide communication in order to hear more ideas, create more events, and consistently inform the students of what is going on. Through embracing the diversity of each student we would work to bridge the gap between different parts of the Loyola College community. Through these initiatives we would like to create a newly inspired sense of unity.?
In our collective efforts we will not forget the importance of each individual student. The most important part of this platform is you. If elected, our role in Student Government becomes an open invitation to each individual of the entire student body to become involved in this movement towards a stronger quality of life and school spirit. We encourage you to become involved with us through a newly reassured sense of a completely open and approachable SGA. We will always be there to hear and support your ideas. Together we can make a difference. We have the desire for change and the experience to make it happen.??

Your friends, ??Alex, Tracy, and Omani

Platform for Brian Tanner ticket:

Brian Tanner, '11 - President
Brian Jaffa, '11 - Vice President for Policy
Cristin McAleavey, '10 - Vice President for Social Affairs

The main problem that faces the Loyola College student body is a lack of unification. We are lucky enough to live on a campus with amazing dorms as well as many facilities which make our lives more convenient and comfortable. All this comfort, however, has come at a cost.
At a time when Loyola College is continuously expanding and entertaining the idea of becoming a university, it becomes more and more evident that our college is in no way united. Our campus is divided into a majority upper-class west side of campus, an academic quad, and a scattered east side of campus which houses a majority of the senior and freshmen populations. It is due to this physical separation of grades and the lack of recreational activities that the student body face the problem of social clicks that is has today. In my mind it is our campus' lay-out that separates us, and its lack of recreational space that keeps us separated. As president my executive cabinet and I would work to unite the student body by not only sponsoring more school-wide recreational activities, but also by changing the lay-out of the academic quad. The quad now is the hub of our campus; however it is currently only used for housing academic buildings. I believe that the quad should be changed into a place where people are encouraged to hang out and mingle with classmates who probably they would have never met.
As an upcoming sophomore next fall, I have learned firsthand the separation that is present not only within our grades, but as a whole. I have spoken to people in every grade and they agree that Loyola has a problem with clicks. By creating more recreational activities that people would like to take part in, it is my plan to unite the student body and create a better sense of school spirit.

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