Meet The Executive Board of SGA

by Heather Riley
edited by Adam Stahl

Meet the recently installed members of the Student Government Association for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Name: Joe Ferris

What year are you: I am a Junior, Class of 2011

What is your position on the board: I am President of the Student Senate
How long have you been involved: I have been involved with the SGA since second semester Freshman year, so almost 2.5 years to be exact.

What your role is on the exec board: I am responsible for all administrative purposes within the SGA as well as ensuring the completion of goals placed before us. I do my very best to maximize the potential of my already outstanding exec board in order to provide the students with all we have to offer, guaranteeing student satisfaction throughout this University.

What do you intend to do in the upcoming years: I plan on working extremely hard my senior year in the class room and putting every ounce of energy into the SGA, so when my time is over as President I will know I left the organization better off than when I entered it.
Otherhobbies/interst: I’ve always been an athlete, my two loves are Ice Hockey and Baseball. I like the outdoors and training. I also enjoy Modern Warfare 2.

Anything else to add: The SGA is the best avenue to improve the day to day lives of the students. We have a budget close to $100,000 for student initiatives. If you are the type of student who feels like there isn’t enough to do or insufficient events, let us know what you want. We are here for every student on this campus, it is my exec boards goal and first priority to improve the satisfaction of the students here.
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Name: Ian McGinnes

What year are you: Junior

What is your position on the board: Student Body Vice President

How long have you been involved: 2 years, this coming year will be my third.

What your role is on the exec board: I am head of the capital improvements committee, I am delegated work from the president to do, and I also co-chair, the bus to Keene program with our president.

What do you intend to do in the upcoming years: Through capital improvements we already have some things in the works for early next semester, I am going to make sure that we have some kind of great improvement to our campus for next year through that committee.

What being a member of SGA means to you: I choose to be part of this program because I actually want to help the student body, I am happy to be a liaison between the students and the people that run this University. I also don’t mind public speaking to much.

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Name: Amanda Fortier

What year are you: Sophomore

What is your position on the board: I am the secretary of the class senate.

How long have you been involved: This upcoming semester will be 5th semester in SGA. I have been in SGA since first semester freshman year.

What your role is on the exec board: I perform regular secretarial duties such as taking minutes of the meetings, formulating meeting agendas and sending weekly e-mails. A new thing I will be trying out next semester is creating a weekly news letter to e-mail to all students.

What does being a member of SGA mean to you: To me being a member of the SGA means doing everything I can to represent the students and have their voice be heard. I think a lot of people want to create change and don’t realize that they can make things happen if they only speak up. This campus community is very accepting of students’ ideas and very willing to use student input to create change.

Other hobbies/ interests: Other interests include being a peer leader and a women’s rugby player. I am on the executive board of the women’s rugby team and love it. I like to listen to music and be outside. I want to encourage any student with any concerns at all to e-mail me at Sgasecretary1@franklinpierce.edu.

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Name: Megan Landry

What year are you: Junior

What is your position on the board: I am the executive board treasurer for 2010-2011 academic year.

What your role is on the exec board: We have many goals as a group but my most important individual goal is to change the budget cycles.  Right now we go through and look at budgets every two weeks.  My freshman year we did this twice in a semester and now we changed this because the planning had to be done so far in advance and when problems arose the money just wasn’t used.  My goal is to find a happy medium between the old and the new. I think that if we can do budgets maybe 5 times a year we can get some happy medium.

Other hobbies/ interests: On a more personal level I think that I am very easy going, approachable and easy to talk to.

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Name: Marzell Barker

What year are you: Sophomore

What is your position on the exec board: Secretary of clubs

How long have you been involved: This is my first time on the executive board but I’ve been in SGA since second semester of freshman year.

What your role is on the exec board: I make sure clubs are actually having meeting and they send me minutes from them as well as inventory. Think of me as the mother hen of clubs really.

What do you intend to do in the upcoming years:  I’m only going to be on the exec board for this upcoming year and I hope to help set up a system that will help clubs stay on track so that we don’t lose any more good clubs.

What being a member of SGA means to you: It has helped me see the inner workings of the school and has allowed me to solidify some of my relations with the clubs I’m currently in. It also is presenting me with an opportunity’s I would not have otherwise had. All in all for me it means I can give back to the school that I really do love.