Students can earn $1,000 dollars for designing a new Student Government Association Web page.
It’s incentives like these that BC’s SGA hopes will get students more involved with BC. SGA has big plans for the 2007 fall semester that include a list of different things. President John Lopez explained he wanted to get students more involved in campus activities and SGA elections.
Lopez explained that the biggest thing that SGA is working on is homecoming week beginning the month of October. “We want BC alumni and the Bakersfield community to know how much we care about our athletics,” said Lopez, which is why SGA wants to make homecoming better by getting students involved in the homecoming activities and encouraging them to have school spirit.
As an incentive to get students involved, SGA will be awarding monetary prizes to clubs who have the best homecoming float. “It’s important that we give back to students and show them that we care about the culture and campus,” said Lopez.
SGA wanted to show that they were giving back to the students by giving bottles of water during the first week of school. “We’re not an exclusive or elite organization. We talk to students and are always looking to improve.”
Lopez explained that SGA has other plans for BC. “It’s also in our intentions to eventually show a TV review of what’s going on here on campus,” he said.
Lopez explained that the show would include informational TV channels, show BC athletic games, and feature BC professors explaining new and different classes on campus. Lopez explained that the TV program would play in the cafeteria and inform students as to what is new at BC. “The overall goal is to have more students participate in the SGA election and just participate in general,” said Lopez.
But it’s not only Lopez who has all the ideas.
SGA representative Alan Crane also had many ideas. Crane was last year’s SGA legislative liaison who returned this year as the chief of staff as appointed by Lopez. “Alan has a lot of great qualities, [including] experience and knowledge of how SGA works, so he is greatly beneficial to the government this year.”
Lopez explained that he is looking only to improve the SGA and is excited to continue to help it grow from that of past years.