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SGA to focus on internal development

This week, Student Government Association focused on global commitments, as well as those close to home.

The Korean Student Association came forward and voiced a desire to go to the Midwest Asian American Student Union conference in Minnesota in April of 2011.

“[KSA] was very well prepared and showed that they were interested in attending the conference.  This means a lot to SGA,” Tim Janczewski, SGA financial vice president, said.

The MAASU conference is important to the KSA because they desire to build more effective relationships with other schools that will be attending the MAASU conference, as well as bringing awareness back to SLU about current events and leadership among Asian and Pacific Islander students.

The KSA was pleased to experience a rise in interest from a membership of 20 students last year to 40 this year.

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On account of the KSA’s sincere desire to represent SLU at this conference and express their leadership amongst other Asians and Pacific Islanders, the KSA was granted $1,330, and will be sending 10 students to the MAASU conference.

Aside from attention directed to the many student organizations on campus, SGA considers it another goal to promote wellbeing within their organization.

The SGA Internal Fitness and Morale Task Force is a unique committee whose goal is to try and promote activities for the senators within SGA aside from the meetings, and help the senators to understand each other outside of the chambers.

“We are an internal organization of SGA responsible for activities to get everybody excited about SGA,” Tyler Sondag, the chair of the committee, said.

This committee has existed since the spring of 2009, but this year a push for a greater presence in SGA is taking place.

“In order for senators to discuss important issues, they need to enjoy spending time together, and I really hope to see it thrive,” SGA President Courtney Anvender said.

SGA is also hoping that this initiative will affect both morale of their working members, as well as the students that they work to represent.

Sondag hopes that by increasing the internal fitness and morale of SGA, it will have an outreaching benefit to the students, though it is a work in progress.

“I feel like within any organization, whether it be a CSO or SGA, you can bond with other people in it to make the work part easier,” Murphy Vandenberg, vice president of Internal Affairs, said.

Sondag used the a PowerPoint presentation and a YouTube video as part of his task force presentation to senate.

Sondag expressed that he would like to resurrect “Senator Saturdays,” which would encompass the members of SGA spending time with each other in order to facilitate a stronger sense of community.

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