The Drury Mirror

Issue date: 12/12/05 Section: News

Media Credit: Micah McClaren A student organization meets in the Findlay Student Center. Student Government Association (SGA) is responsible for myriad actions, including allocating funds to Drury´s student organizations.

What are students complaining about? That's what the SGA Student Action Committee wants to find out with its annual survey.

Tops on the list this year include campus safety (specifically lighting, sidewalks and parking); the new student center and what students want out of it; and miscellaneous topics, such as e-mail, the lower-level of the current FSC, intramurals, coin machines, and SGA information.

Now, with data in hand, Drew Kifer, SGA Student Action Committee Chair and other member of his committee are planning to take the students' opinions and make something happen.

Kifer is making small "books" containing the survey results and easy-to-read graphs to show Drury administration and other individuals just how the 539 students that responded to the online survey feel about the issues at hand.

Kifer is planning to distribute these books to President Dr. John Sellars, Dean of Students Tijuana Julian, and SGA as a whole. Kifer and committee members are going to personally meet with Bob Love (Food Services), Kevin French (Safety & Security), and members of the physical plant to discuss the student's feelings about their specific operations.

Also, with 78.5 percent of students saying they would "use the lower-level FSC if it was more appealing," SGA is now planning to renovate this area.

"A grand reopening will take place in January after we get back from break," SGA faculty advisor Matt Battaglia said.

"We'll add new furniture, a new TV, more appealing colors, new lighting, new games, and a substitution, something commuter-targeted, to the now-closed Unwind Grind."

The cost of the renovation is undetermined at this time.

SGA is also responding to the 72.2 percent of students who "would like to see change machines added near coin-operated laundry machines on campus."
Kifer and Battaglia say to look for these coin machines in the spring semester as well. This cost has also not been settled yet.

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