TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012
Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
NIC FLORES AWARDED WALKER CUP
VOL. 160, ISSUE 47
question & answer with
SARA
SCULLY MARK
FADEL Newly-elected student government president, vice president discuss plans By BECCA STANEK news@thedepauw.com
With the inauguration of newly-elected student government president Sara Scully and vice president Mark Fadel approaching this Sunday, the pair sat down to talk about their hopes for student government in the next year and what changes they plan to act.
The Walker Cup, a prestigious award given to the senior who has contributed the most to the DePauw community during his or her four years, was presented last night to Nic Flores. In his time at DePauw, Flores has been a member of the Bonner Scholars program, a Compton Center Intern, a DePauw Environmental Policy Project Intern, a Sustainability Intern and a Domestic Violence Intern for Putnam County Family Support Services. Flores also served as Vice President of DePauw Student Government and received the Paul C. Glick award Monday evening for his contributions to the sociology and anthropology department. Upon recieving the Walker Cup, Flores told the audience, "This cup is not me, DePauw, it's you." ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
The DePauw: What’s the first project you plan to tackle after you are inaugurated? Sara Scully: We are going to work with the executive team right now, especially with Margarita Villa, the current director of allocations, and Stewart Burns, the new director of allocations and Roy Leaf, the parliamentarian. We’re sitting down and trying to figure out the plan for allocations next year. TDP: In the years since you’ve been at DePauw, what do you think that the biggest thing student government has accomplished or the biggest change that they have been able to make? SS: Our freshman year, we were a part of the creation of the new student government structure. Before that, it
had been just kind of a free-for-all every year and whoever got into the offices that we’re in right now would basically create their own idea for what student government would look like. Our freshman year was the first year that we had an official senate. Mark and I were a part of the first senate ever at DePauw. We worked on finalizing the new constitution. That’s definitely the biggest change that we have seen, just giving it a consistent structure, but we’re really looking to take it to its full potential. TDP: Do you think student government has been as effective as it could be in the past? Mark Fadel: We realize the potential of student government, and we’re trying to make it more of a presence on campus. SS: There have definitely been strengths with every administration. We think that we can definitely take the strengths and leave the weaknesses behind. MF: You kind of get a sense of what each administration was doing, and by thinking critically and analyzing student government Christine Walker and David Dietz working with
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