Beaird, SGA have big plans for semester
Kelcie Huffstickler
Issue date: 8/28/08 Section: News
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"It's not about what Quan Poole wants, what [PR Director] Kyle Fulton wants, or what Ryan Beaird wants," Poole said, "It's what the students want, because if we get in there and just do our own thing, we're really not benefiting anybody."
Beaird and Poole have enough student-focused ideas to fill a book, beginning with Welcome Week and a voter registration drive that started today. With the weeklong voter registration drive, Beaird and Poole hope to stoke student interest in this year's Presidential election, which they will follow up with an election night watch party on Nov. 4.
Another focus for the new administration is their newly established campus-recycling program. ASU launched the program last spring under Beard's initiative and set up plastic recycling bins all over campus. However, Beaird and Poole hope to expand the program this year to include much more than just plastic.
"We've got some designs and some ideas of some permanent structures of recycling bins-ones for aluminum, ones for compost waste, newspapers, the whole nine yards," Beaird said.
Poole explained that some of the previously set up bins have not been working out because students put trash other than plastic in them. He hopes that by developing a more defined system with separate bins for different materials, students will no longer mistake the recycling bins for trashcans.
Beaird and Poole also have plans of setting up what they call, "Campus Hall Meetings" to promote communication between students, the SGA, and University administration. They hope to have one meeting each semester in which students directly voice their questions and opinions to those who can do something about them. Poole said the "Campus Hall Meetings" are a way for he and other SGA officials to "actually be held accountable" to the students who elected them.
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