By Tai Marker
PPCC’s Student Government has taken great strides and spent a tremendous amount of time to assure that this student organization makes the best decisions for the college. Over the semester, they have granted funding to many of the school’s organizations who need the money for opportunities presented to them.
SG has also been working on rewording the student government constitution to enable more students to participate, which will change the ballot slightly to offer more opportunities for a variety of students to be a part of the government. Members of SG have gone to conferences such as the Community College Conference in Denver to observe changes that may affect PPCC and its students.
Members have been passionate about their duties and the responsibilities that lie in their hands. S.G., two members of Phi Theta Kappa were sent to a conference in Seattle with PPCC President Joseph Garcia to receive an award to attend their training for the organization. They sent dance team, The Pecans, to a dance competition to compete with other college teams.
SG has considered founding a recycling campaign for the campuses, hosting a game tournament in the Student Center and hosting programs around the campuses to enforce smoking rules. The new Student Center was founded by the organizational efforts of S.G., as well as from funding from PPCC student fees.
Though there are only a few student government meetings left this semester, they intend to remain a hard-working team to the end and continue their strong efforts to better the lives of the PPCC students and staff. They meet each Wednesday at 3 p.m.
On average the camp would receive two or three of these attacks weekly. Rusty got to live the day-to-day life of a soldier, and then write about it in his column.
There is good news though, Rusty says, “The troops in Iraq are well supported.” The soldiers learn camaraderie because they have to count on another sometimes for their life. “The troops support of one another and the support of their families is making life in Iraq easier,”
and he added that he “never met one soldier who said they were sorry they went.”(Back to top) |
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