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April 21,1994 -SGA Presif^pntial Election Profile Erick Gill/The Pendulum Erick Gill/The Pendulum cntiv v»m I ^ Presidential Candidate Charlie Smith. SGA Presidential Candidate Floyd Barrett. SGA Presidential Candidate Larry Williams. packground: Charilie Smith is from La Grange, North Carolina. He ‘ “‘ajoring in History/Prelaw with a minor in English. p’^Perience: ^niith has been in involved with student government middle school. He has been freshman class president, P^omore senator, and junior senator during his years at 'n. ^with is running to break what he believes to be a ‘^8"ant flow of ideas within Elon’s SGA. Smith wants to ''8 fresh and new ideas to SGA which will help to make it ■^“""'oreefficienUy. plans to have an SGA representative appear ^ly on ECl’V so students can can call in and discuss the ^sues of A • or just voice their opmions. Smith wants to increase tlie student involvement on I He distributing flyers once a semester to Hyers will come before the Board of Trustees Meeting. issues that they will be discussing at the vh' plans on enforcing Roberts Rules of Order, Hie > ^ on Pctfliamentary procedures and methods. ^ ' P^octdures will be used and enforced to help nin ^obert^^ fwjls that students in SGA believe that uiid Orders is too difficult and complex to that is why it is not being enforced. Background: Bom in New York City, Hoyd Barrett has a double major in Political Science and Public Administration. Experience: He became involved with student government during his senior year in high school where he was senior class president Barrett has been a member of the North Carolina Student Legislature since his freshman year at Elon. He has also served two years on the SGA at Elon. Goals: Barrett wants to strengthen the weak communication between SGA and the student body. He feels that many students are not fully made aware of issues that are discussed within SGA. To solve this problem of commu nication Barrett wants to distribute flyers to the students explaining issues that the SGA is currenUy discussing. Barrett also wants to work with the students to build a better support group among the student body. He believes SGA should be the leader of this support. “Too many times students have complained that their organizations are not being supported by the student body and SGA,” said Barrett “SGA has not been the leader of this support and they should be.” To strengthen this role of support Barret plans to require senators in SGA to attend meetings of the various organizations on campus. Barrett feels that this will help to make SGA realize what is going on around campus. Background: Larry Williams is from Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He is majoring in Business Administration with a minor in English. Experience: Williams served as a senator during his sophomore year at Elon. During his junior year he served on the Student Life Committee at Elon. Goals: Williams is running as SGA president to “represent the student body and unite all the organizations on cam pus.” His first priority is to go to each organization on campus and ask them what they like and dislike about SGA. “I tliink that the student body should set the goals of SGA ratlier than SGA just setting the goals,” said Will iams. Williams also wants to make SGA more noticeable to the students on campus. To do this he plans to get more senators out in the open at campus activities and functions. They will be required to wear name tags to identify themselves. Williams also wants to keep up the strong relationship with the faculty. He believes that the faculty here at Elon is very supportive and have given great input in the past Compiled by Siirah Clarke
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