Tuesday, October 23, 2012

YOU HAVE A VOICE, USE IT!

Hello All,


This week was the very first Mercyhurst Student Government forum of the 2012-2013 school year. MSG is responsible for holding three forums per year. This is typically broken down to one forum per term. In the past we have had forums which have addressed issues such as the new 4-1-4 calendar and the strategic plan for Mercyhurst University.

Our MSG senators coming to the students to see what they have to say!
The first forum of the year was titled "MSG, THE GOOD THE BAD THE UGLY". The idea behind this was borrowed from the pages of the Merciad, and their ever popular weekly feature. The MSG executive board opened ourselves up to questions from the student body regarding anything the student body wanted to address. This in itself was a very rare concept that had been applied to a Mercyhurst Student Government forum. Not going to lie it was slightly nerve wrecking exposing ourselves to the student body in such an open and public way.


Despite the event going viral on facebook and postings around campus, the student turn out on the day was hugely disappointing. Although, it was nice not to have any huge controversy I would much rather deal with that than nothing at all. The students who were in attendance raised some very interesting issues, all of which are now being looked into by MSG.

I know that students of Mercyhurst have many complaints, I just wish they would bring them to student government so we could address them. Instead it seems as though students complain and we are not receiving these complaints, therefore how are we supposed to act?

Another great way in which students can voice their concerns directly to the administration is to take the recent survey that Dr. Gamble e mailed out. This survey acts as an assessment of many different departments on campus and the results are taken very seriously by the administration. Again it comes down to the issue of whether or not Mercyhurst Students are willing to speak up for the changes they want to see happen around campus. I encourage you too. I'm not normally one for cliches but you can actually make a difference.


                                                      Take the survey, have your say
                                            http://surveys.mercyhurst.edu/USEFall2012

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