By Cari Griggs, Senior Staff Writer
John Riesenberg, president of Student Government Association, Justin DaMetz, president of Student Senate, and Leah Diaz, president of Student Activities Council are inaugurated in Spring 2010 in the Great Glass Atrium in Wanda L. Bass Music Center. Riesenberg and DaMetz will address attendees of the event. Marianne Pickens/ The Campus
Student leaders will kick off the year with a briefing event. Student Government Association will host “State of the Students” to update the OCU community on its happenings.
The event will be at 8 p.m. Jan. 18 in the Great Glass Atrium in Wanda L. Bass Music Center.
The entire OCU community is invited, said John Riesenberg, president of SGA. Administrators and trustees also will be invited, he said. SGA members to attend the event, Riesenberg said.
The evening will open with remarks from Justin DaMetz, vice president of Student Senate. He will call to order, as performed in Senate meetings, and the president will be introduced. The president will speak for five to 10 minutes. There will be finger foods and officials plan to have a string quartet perform, Riesenberg said.
Many students and officials do not remember this event from the past, he said. State of the Students was canceled due to a snowstorm.
“If classes are canceled, SGA doesn’t have any justification not to cancel,” Riesenberg said.
Courtney Cahen, vocal music/Spanish junior, said the address is a good thing.
“I am really interested to hear what SGA has been doing because I know that they have been working really hard, but I have felt sort of out of the loop.”
Riesenberg is looking forward to this year’s event.
“It serves as an interim between inauguration to communicate what SGA has done and what they are planning on doing in the future, and a chance to update the students on our progress on what we planned on doing.”
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