Thursday, May 31, 2007

SGA Senate

During the middle of last semester, my roommate suggested that I apply for the SGA senate. The year was more than half over, but for some reason there was a large number of holes in the roster and they really needed people to join in. I had a few bills in mind to work up, but then I got put on the committee for campus improvement I believe (the exact name eludes me, I am on the committee for campus relations now- if I actually get voted in during the fall that is XD). Our committee was given a number of projects and I start to work on the McCarty compter lab. Now I thought the comps might be a little old but MAN was I in for something. Out of the 10 computers there, ALL of them took at LEAST 10 minutes to boot up, some weren't fully plugged in, a few would give the nice little message of OS not found, one couldn't even recognize its monitor, and all of them couldn't get past the start of a good old disk defrag. I went to iTech to see if ANYTHING could be done besides buying new comps, and found out those computers in McCarty were well over ten years old, way past time to put them out to pasture. I look online, find a nice brand of cheap comps from the company iTech is buying from, and found a set of free monitors and word processing software (both legal!). I was talking with someone from Res Life (they actually buy the computers) and thought I had everything down pat just wanted to tell this lady about how much money SGA could donate for the computers to meet Res Life half way or such, when I found out that iTech already had plans to take over and replace the computers in McCarty. I wasn't told anything about that at iTech, but it did take me a good week to get in touch with the right person at Res Life. No one knew where I should go, and I kept leaving a name and #, but just kept getting redirected to other people before finding the right office. McCarty is still getting new computers, so I guess I should be glad my work is done- and maybe I was the catalyst for this change *shrugs*.
Oh yeah, I am a College of Education and Psychology representative, and am open to any suggestions you might have for the campus. SGA is given a nice budget, and there is a lot we can do on campus regarding policy and structures. Even if it has nothing to do with Ed/Psych, I can always redirect it to someone else in the senate who would be more fitting to address the issue.

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