SGA

Date: Mar 11, 2004

SGA

Date: Mar 11, 2004

Thanks for this question. I had not looked up this information, and I am glad I did now...will post it on the contact page of this website.

www.geocities.com/fireshelby/firethames2.html

Here is the SGA email addy: Student.Government@USM.edu

Here are your representatives. Make them respond to you. I say we begin an email campaign, and if we get no response, or another "we're staying neutral" response, we plan another protest to move SGA off the fence. They need to be on one side or the other. They are serving NO ONE by straddling it.

Your reps:

President Jared Loftus

VP Sarah Spigener

Attorney Gen. Chad Cornett

I think I will update the website with an SGA page...a quick perusal through the printz archives and I came up with a dandy like this:

"I just hope next year the SGA can work to find a common ground between faculty and administration," said Cornett. "Our position is with the students. The SGA has got to find a way to make things work for the students."

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:Xb5r4HA0UdIJ:www.printz.usm.edu/students.html+SGA+president+loftus+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

and this:

SGA President Jared Loftus said the newly elected officers should focus on fulfilling their campaign promises.

"I encourage the new officers to do what they said they would do and for the student body to hold them to it," he said.

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:qxtgrJo7QQEJ:www.printz.usm.edu/elections.html+SGA&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Date: Mar 12, 2004

Your Gulf Park--excuse me--Southern Miss Gulf Coast SGA reps ARE attempting to represent the students on our campus. I say that because I am your current SGA president. Tanisha Staten, your SGA V.P. helped organize yesterday's rally in Long Beach. Several other SGA reps were in attendance as well. (There are only seven of us on the full council, so we get 'spread thin' in a hurry.)

As a board, we seek your input. However, because our campus community is untraditional, and has so few places in which to gather or discuss any issue, we have had a hard time gauging student concern. Drop me an email at bilbeach@mac.com. At the very least, I can bring student concerns to our next SGA meeting to be held in Room 104 of Lloyd Hall on Monday, March 22nd.

The only thing your Gulf Coast SGA has done up until this point is pass a resolution supporting the no-confidence vote rendered by the Faculty Senate last Sunday. Board members were quickly able to contact local and statewide media outlets, and within two hours of adjournment, we were invited to WLOX to make a statement on camera. (That's how my silly mug got on the tube.) Our message was that we stood by the faculty as they exercised their prerogative. The SGA was of the opinion that we could make no other statement without more knowledge AND a sense of the student body's mood. Please let your SGA know how you feel!

By the way, and I speak as an individual in this regard, Roy Klumb needs to be removed from the IHL Board. His cynicism is appalling! His condescension toward those of us who are actually going through this process as students is the epitome of gross insensitivity. His attitude confirms the stereotype prevalent in the south of the business-leader-cum-saint who ignorantly confuses his mandate with the acquisition of sound judgment. His is the attitude, I fear, that animates our state's highest offices. To qualify my statements, I am generally a political and philosophical conservative. My opinions are not knee-jerk reactions based on emotive output. I am a grown man with decades of real world experience in business and civi life. Klumb needs to think about what he says before he opens his mouth, because he is supposed to represent the highest intellectual aspirations of our state!

Date: Mar 12, 2004

Mark,

Would you consider writing an opinion piece for publication on the Fire Shelby website?

I think it very admirable that the Gulf Coast USM SGA has decided to support the no confidence vote. Thank you guys for operating with integrity. Thank you MOST of all for representing the students who elected you.

If you will consider authoring an opinion piece, please email me at fireshelby@yahoo.com.

Kudos and cheers to Gulf Coast SGA!! You rock!

Fire Shelby

Date: Mar 13, 2004

I just wanted to let everyone know that I served on the SGA for two years (one in the Senate and one as Academic Affairs) and thus I have private emails for some of the officers. I am an alumnus now, but I have emailed Chad Cornett, Toby Barker, and Sarah Speigner to tell them how I am personally disappointed with them. I challenged them to step up and be more than bureacrats, yes-men, and bootlickers and to be public servants. Here's hoping they do!

As an answer to the opening question, Student Senate meetings are open to the public - ALWAYS. Executive Board meetings are too if I recall. You can contact Student Activities - particularly Mr. Mike Mitchell who is the staff advisor for SGA and acquire both a complete list of reps and contact info and info concerning meeting times and room numbers in the Union. If you cannot get them from Mike for some reason, contact the Union reservationist.

Wouldn't it be AWESOME if the current students staged a sit-in on the next Student Senate meeting!!!!? They wouldn't know what to do!!! Force them to come cleam and support student views. They have been timid and sheepish since the ole "In God We Trust" days. The senate meets every week. Every college (including Honors) has a senator or more and there are a variety of at-large reps as well.

I think the SGA elections this year should be VERY INTERESTING though. Is anyone running on anti-Shelby platform?

I have also emailed Bob Pierce to discuss my displeasure with the Alum Assoc. and I am working on contacting the DC affliate of the alumni and see if I can go and speak with them about these issues.