Student Government Association. What do you think of when you hear these words? Maybe campaign posters in the lunchroom, speeches at assemblies, or the canned food drive. They are leaders of the student body in the most literal sense, but what does that really mean for them?
Sophomore SGA Officers Blakeley Ferguson, Kate Hurst, and Allison Xie offer their input.
Blakeley Ferguson, Director of Spirit, talks about her responsibilities as such: “I’m in charge of pep rallies, I get the signs together, I lead cheers during the pep rallies, I help with some fundraising planning, and I help Kate with a lot of homecoming duties.”
Kate Hurst, Director of Homecoming is “in charge of planning homecoming activities for the sophomore class, making the homecoming float, making sure nobody dies during homecoming week. Powderpuff, signs, pep rallies, all of that stuff.”
Allison Xie, Sophomore Vice President, opens up about why she decided to run for SGA: “I just wanted to be more involved in the school, and hopefully make things better that I saw that weren’t that great, even though the school is great.”
Kate agrees, “I just wanted to be a part of something. Also, homecoming is very concentrated in the fall, and I do spring sports, so I knew I wouldn’t have a lot of responsibilities in the spring.”
Blakeley adds, “I wanted to lead in a positive way and help increase positivity across our student body, and also try to increase opportunities our class has.”
Each of the girls are proud of their accomplishments as SGA officers. For Blakeley and Kate, a lot of this revolves around homecoming.
Kate is most proud of the homecoming sign, as well as “getting the sophomores incorporated in homecoming at the new campus”. Blakeley says it was getting to work very closely with Kate during homecoming week, “helping to build the float and helping our class with cheers, because we came in as sophomores not knowing a lot of stuff”.
Allison explores the fact that there have also been some unexpected challenges that come along with SGA.
She feels that sometimes the sophomore class is unenthusiastic. “I feel like a lot of us aren’t really that connected, and it makes things a lot harder.”
While there have been some unexpected bumps, there have also been rewarding parts. For Blakeley, it’s “seeing everyone smile and have fun at the pep rallies, because that’s what it’s all about. Also seeing everyone help fundraise for the canned food drive”.
Blakeley wants to leave her class with this message: “Spread kindness, because you never know what someone else is going through.”
As her final word, Kate offers, “It’s not bad to cheer. If everyone cheers, nobody will know who’s doing it, and the point of cheering is that everybody does it.”
Allison points out that as juniors next year, it will be the last half of the class’s time in high school, and she hopes for them “to bring more spirit”.
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