The incoming Student Government Council members at the Biscayne Bay Campus need to end their stripes.
At the moment, SGA elections are underway, and the candidates of SGC-BBC are not taking it as seriously as they should.
One of our reporters recently went to a BBC campaign event, meant to be a candidate meetup, but only one senator attended.
Most SGC-BBC candidates are running opposed.
The certainty of victory has apparently made some of them work lazily and without focus.
But they still need to campaign. As representatives of us — the students — it is detrimental to transparency if students — their constituents — are not aware of what their policy plans consist.
In our last editorial, we praised the work that has been done by outgoing SGC-BBC members.
If incoming student government officials hope to keep the opinions of this editorial valid; then they should prove that they actually deserve a balanced allocation of funds.
But so far, the work ethic they’ve displayed in campaigning bodes ill.
Our greatest desire is that they prove us wrong, but the only sensible way we have of predicting future events is by the actions and behaviors of the past and present.
Maybe when the incoming students begin their terms, SGC-BBC will work better then ever.
But when we see something done incorrectly, we have to address it.
The social media promotion for campaign events has been slim to none. The Marketing Coordinator for SGC-BBC, Karla Hernandez, said that most of the advertising is in person or on the screens in the Wolfe Center but to get real exposure on such a commuter campus, more social media posts are needed even before an event is necessary to get the public and the candidates involved.
The students who attend the BBC campus need a diligent student government. Public service, whether in a university setting or in the highest levels of the national government, should be taken seriously from the initial campaign all the way up to the last day of service.
Students have to know about the things that influence them; and those sources of influence have to act accordingly. It’s time to campaign more seriously.
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