2008 Woodie Awards
Campus campaigning: The experience a president needs
By: Jeremy Lehman and Leo Almeida
Issue date: 3/25/08 Section: Forum
The Undergraduate Student Government is the official voice of the undergraduate students of the University. This means that the people elected to represent the students have to not only correspond with the student body, but with the administration as well.
If this correspondence is not built on integrity and trust, then it will be close to impossible for USG to truly be the voice of the students. In addition, USG members work on issues that are brought to them by the students to fulfill the needs of the University as a whole.
That is why we, Jeremy Lehman and Leo Almeida, want to be your next president and vice president.
We believe that we can utilize our past five years of combined experience to "make a difference, one student at a time." In light of our experience, we have already built the trust of both students and the administration.
We have worked to represent the students in a variety of capacities that have allowed us to develop the correspondence discussed earlier.
Not only have we served the student body as senators, we have also served on a variety of University standing committees and have helped start new organizations and programs.
Jeremy helped with the establishment of the Alpha Tau Omega leadership fraternity and the Student Money Management Service, and Leo assisted in the creation of the Bowling Green Teen Center and is currently working with a group of students to establish an Ethnic Student Center.
We have been involved in these new initiatives because other students recognized our abilities and drive as student leaders. We want to continue working for the students as president and vice president because we know that even more students will come to us to help them with their issues and concerns.
Student issues are extremely important to us. We believe that if 100, 1,000 or 10,000 students bring an issue to us, then it is definitely worth a significant amount of time and hard work to solve the issue.
If this correspondence is not built on integrity and trust, then it will be close to impossible for USG to truly be the voice of the students. In addition, USG members work on issues that are brought to them by the students to fulfill the needs of the University as a whole.
That is why we, Jeremy Lehman and Leo Almeida, want to be your next president and vice president.
We believe that we can utilize our past five years of combined experience to "make a difference, one student at a time." In light of our experience, we have already built the trust of both students and the administration.
We have worked to represent the students in a variety of capacities that have allowed us to develop the correspondence discussed earlier.
Not only have we served the student body as senators, we have also served on a variety of University standing committees and have helped start new organizations and programs.
Jeremy helped with the establishment of the Alpha Tau Omega leadership fraternity and the Student Money Management Service, and Leo assisted in the creation of the Bowling Green Teen Center and is currently working with a group of students to establish an Ethnic Student Center.
We have been involved in these new initiatives because other students recognized our abilities and drive as student leaders. We want to continue working for the students as president and vice president because we know that even more students will come to us to help them with their issues and concerns.
Student issues are extremely important to us. We believe that if 100, 1,000 or 10,000 students bring an issue to us, then it is definitely worth a significant amount of time and hard work to solve the issue.
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