New Student Government President champions new initiatives

September 23, 2004

With the coming of a new year the Student Government Association (SGA) gained a new president, Amanda Noe. She is bringing more student involvement and activities to Miami Hamilton. Noe was an SGA senator last year and the only returning member in a group of all new students this year. According to Noe, the purpose of SGA is to improve the campus through administrator and student connections. "We are just trying to make the campus better for the students whether administratively or through more activities for students," Noe said. "It is really anything that the students want." As president, Noe is in charge of running the SGA meetings and delegating responsibilities, she said that she did not think about running for president until the president from last year, Arjuna Anderson, talked to her about it.

"Just being the senator last year I took on a lot of responsibilities," Noe said. "I developed a really good friendship with the president last year. If he had not encouraged me to run for president I would not have thought of it." Now as president, Noe plans to keep some old traditions and make a few changes to the organization. "I am adding some things of my own. I am trying to keep his traditions too, because I liked the way that he ran the group," Noe explained referring to Anderson. "Mainly in the meetings I am trying to get all of the senators and other members to be closer. I think if we are all friends and we all get to know each other well we are going to work better together. At first, with the new group, everyone didn't really know where to go or what was going on," Noe added. "Everyone is catching up now." The biggest problem Noe said she faces is gaining peoples involvement, but that does not stop her from setting high goals. She said her main focus this year is to have a lot more student involvement. "I am excited to get students involved on campus and to get students to be excited to be involved on campus. It's really hard on a commuter campus. I am just trying to do things that students are interested in. The only thing we can really do is tell people about it and let them decide what they want to do." If you are interested in learning more about SGA, or would like to become involved in the program, visit their web site at www.ham.muohio.edu/sga.