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TechNews I Tuesday, March 6, 2012

SGA Banquet honors members,
organization accomplishments

By Ryan Kamphuis
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

With the Student Government Associations’
spring elections rapidly approaching and a
passing of the torch imminent, the current
members of SGA have begun to take a moment
to look back on their accomplishments of the
past year. SGA held a banquet the evening of
Thursday, March 1 in the Hermann Hall Expo
to celebrate their accomplishments and thank
those that made said accomplishments possible.

The banquet began with a cocktail session
where the many attendees of the banquet were
able to mingle. The event was attended by many
members of the HT administration, including
President John Anderson and Provost Alan
Cramb. The event was also attended by all the

members of SGA’s Executive Board, Judicial
Board, Finance Board, and Student Senate.
Also in attendance were the student leaders of
organizations that frequently work with SGA.

The cocktail hour allowed for informal
brainstorming between these many
different organizations and individuals
and served as a bridge into dinner.

After dinner was served, the presentation
for the evening began. All of the members of
SGA’s Executive Board spoke, highlighting the
members of their committees and what each
committee accomplished over the past year.

First to speak was Vice President of
Academic Affairs, Eyoel Asfaw. Asfaw spoke
of his recent appointment to the position
of Vice President of Academic Affairs,
and his efforts to improve the amount of
academic support available to HT students.

Following Asfaw was Vice President of
Student Life Gokul Butail. Butail spoke of
his recent efforts, which included obtaining
a foosball table for the MTCC, organizing
a school spirit day, and helping spread the
word about the recent CMC career fair,
which was one of the largest in IIT history.

As Butail delivered his closing remarks,
he welcomed Kelly Lohr, SGA’s Vice President
of Communication to the podium. Lohr
began her speech by congratulating SGA
Senator Dor Karter, who was in charge of the
widely-received SGA VoteBox project. Lohr
also highlighted the increasing readership
of SGA’s website and social media pages.

After several other speeches, the outgoing
President of the Student Government
Association, Elnaz Moshfeghian, took to
the podium to present her thoughts on her

time as President. Moshfeghian touched
on the many different initiatives that SGA
worked on this past year. The majority of her
speech, however, focused on the connections
and people who made her time as president
successful. She profusely thanked her
fellow SGA Senators and Executive Board
members, and held back tears as she thanked
all those who helped her in her endeavors.

The banquet quickly ended as
Moshfeghian concluded her speech. Pictures
were taken of the SGA members, comments
of thanks and congratulations were exchanged
between faculty members and students,
and people began to leave Hermann Hall.

With the end of the banquet, the next
major event for SGA will be the upcoming
spring elections, and the transition to new
leadership which will occur afterwards.

 

Photos by Ryan Kamphuis