2008 Woodie Awards
Your SGA Cabinet in action
Meg Ambrus
Issue date: 9/21/06 Section: Opinions
Greetings from the SGA Office!
This is the first in a series of columns that will address issues your Student Government Association cabinet will be tackling throughout the upcoming year. Each week, a different member of the cabinet will write the column, discussing our agenda for the week, plans in progress and her own personal opinion on issues that we discuss in our weekly meetings. Each cabinet member will also highlight her role on campus in these articles, as a way to allow all students to see the work that your elected representatives do on your behalf.
The SGA cabinet met on Thursday, Sept.14, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center for our first official meeting of the year. Our agenda was dominated by discussion of our plans and goals for the upcoming year, which we created earlier in our orientation week before classes began. We spent some time discussing the upcoming Seven Sisters Leadership Conference - a gathering of student leaders from Seven Sisters colleges that Smith is honored to host this year. The conference is going to be held from Oct. 27 through Oct. 28, and the theme will be "Women's Colleges in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond." This historic gathering of student leaders from Seven Sisters institutions has been taking place annually for 70 years. As planning for the conference proceeds, other cabinet members will keep you updated in their articles.
I think this conference comes at an exciting moment in Smith's history. As the college administration continues the important process of strategic planning for Smith's future, it is important for us, as students, to equally reflect upon Smith's great historic legacy and the legacy we want the Smith of today to leave for future generations. Panels that we have already planned for the conference include panels on diversity; social life; gender and the women's college experience; and student involvement on campus. While I believe Smith is remarkably different-and better!-than our sister schools, these institutions are our closest relatives and the student experiences at these other colleges can help us gain new ideas and reflect upon student life at Smith. At the conclusion of the conference, the SGA will be releasing a report of all issues that were discussed, and we hope that this spurs meaningful conversations on campus about both our similarities and differences to these other schools. What is it, exactly, that makes Smith so unique?
This is the first in a series of columns that will address issues your Student Government Association cabinet will be tackling throughout the upcoming year. Each week, a different member of the cabinet will write the column, discussing our agenda for the week, plans in progress and her own personal opinion on issues that we discuss in our weekly meetings. Each cabinet member will also highlight her role on campus in these articles, as a way to allow all students to see the work that your elected representatives do on your behalf.
The SGA cabinet met on Thursday, Sept.14, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center for our first official meeting of the year. Our agenda was dominated by discussion of our plans and goals for the upcoming year, which we created earlier in our orientation week before classes began. We spent some time discussing the upcoming Seven Sisters Leadership Conference - a gathering of student leaders from Seven Sisters colleges that Smith is honored to host this year. The conference is going to be held from Oct. 27 through Oct. 28, and the theme will be "Women's Colleges in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond." This historic gathering of student leaders from Seven Sisters institutions has been taking place annually for 70 years. As planning for the conference proceeds, other cabinet members will keep you updated in their articles.
I think this conference comes at an exciting moment in Smith's history. As the college administration continues the important process of strategic planning for Smith's future, it is important for us, as students, to equally reflect upon Smith's great historic legacy and the legacy we want the Smith of today to leave for future generations. Panels that we have already planned for the conference include panels on diversity; social life; gender and the women's college experience; and student involvement on campus. While I believe Smith is remarkably different-and better!-than our sister schools, these institutions are our closest relatives and the student experiences at these other colleges can help us gain new ideas and reflect upon student life at Smith. At the conclusion of the conference, the SGA will be releasing a report of all issues that were discussed, and we hope that this spurs meaningful conversations on campus about both our similarities and differences to these other schools. What is it, exactly, that makes Smith so unique?
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