2008 Woodie Awards
Student body presidents reflect on past, look to future
Scott hopes to boost school spirit during Miami's bicentennial year by working with athletic dept.
Dave Matthews
Issue date: 4/22/08 Section: Front Page
Where Jens Sutmöller's year as Student Body President was defined by under-the-radar work with his cabinet to tweak the gears of Associated Student Government (ASG) to help it run better, president-elect Mike Scott wants to be the poster boy of ASG for Miami University's most visible year, the 2009 bicentennial year.
"Jens has done a noble job of putting the framework of ASG in place, he did a lot of cleaning house," Scott said. "(But my) goal is to take that structure … build upon that credibility … and make it visible."
Scott, who's only in his third semester in ASG, has a staunch focus on improving school spirit for the bicentennial over the next year by working with the athletic department to possibly provide incentives for students going to sporting events, influencing the summer readership program to include literature on Miami's history, and further improving academic advising.
Scott also said that although the highlight of the bicentennial is the proposed Bicentennial Student Center, Scott intends on working with President Hodge and other administrators to make sure Miami's student fee, already relatively high for schools across the country, doesn't get raised too much.
Scott says these are just some of the many ideas he wishes to try so as to make Miami the best it can be next year.
"I'm a sticky-note person, I'm sitting around thing of ideas all the time," Scott said. "And I'm figuring out how I take those sticky notes and make them a comprehensive plan."
Sophomore Adam Clampitt-Dietrich, Scott's campaign manager this year, said Scott's inherent people skills are what will make him a good president of the student body next year.
"It's good having a comfortable, approachable leader who gets input from people who don't typically get involved," Clampitt-Dietrich said.
Clampitt-Dietrich added that Scott has most of what he wants to have happen in 2008-09 in place and ready to be carried out.
Sutmöller agreed with Clampitt-Dietrich that Scott has the inherent tools to be an effective president.
"(Scott) has a personality to drive forward the issues he cares about," Sutmöller said.
Scott admitted that like most other student body presidents he will be frustrated with the bureaucracy of government at both the student, university and local levels. He plans to diminish that effect by meeting with members of cabinet over the summer and beginning talks with the athletic department.
However the year turns out, Scott plans to make it student-centered.
"My goal is to be a motivator," Scott said. "I want to focus on building relationships and improving school spirit across Miami."
"Jens has done a noble job of putting the framework of ASG in place, he did a lot of cleaning house," Scott said. "(But my) goal is to take that structure … build upon that credibility … and make it visible."
Scott, who's only in his third semester in ASG, has a staunch focus on improving school spirit for the bicentennial over the next year by working with the athletic department to possibly provide incentives for students going to sporting events, influencing the summer readership program to include literature on Miami's history, and further improving academic advising.
Scott also said that although the highlight of the bicentennial is the proposed Bicentennial Student Center, Scott intends on working with President Hodge and other administrators to make sure Miami's student fee, already relatively high for schools across the country, doesn't get raised too much.
Scott says these are just some of the many ideas he wishes to try so as to make Miami the best it can be next year.
"I'm a sticky-note person, I'm sitting around thing of ideas all the time," Scott said. "And I'm figuring out how I take those sticky notes and make them a comprehensive plan."
Sophomore Adam Clampitt-Dietrich, Scott's campaign manager this year, said Scott's inherent people skills are what will make him a good president of the student body next year.
"It's good having a comfortable, approachable leader who gets input from people who don't typically get involved," Clampitt-Dietrich said.
Clampitt-Dietrich added that Scott has most of what he wants to have happen in 2008-09 in place and ready to be carried out.
Sutmöller agreed with Clampitt-Dietrich that Scott has the inherent tools to be an effective president.
"(Scott) has a personality to drive forward the issues he cares about," Sutmöller said.
Scott admitted that like most other student body presidents he will be frustrated with the bureaucracy of government at both the student, university and local levels. He plans to diminish that effect by meeting with members of cabinet over the summer and beginning talks with the athletic department.
However the year turns out, Scott plans to make it student-centered.
"My goal is to be a motivator," Scott said. "I want to focus on building relationships and improving school spirit across Miami."
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aaliyah
posted 11/17/08 @ 3:52 PM EST
i would like batley girls high school to stay as a girls school because there are many religoes girls in that school and if it becomes a co-ed school parents who want their children to stay away from boys they will remove their child to another school and if alot of the girls leave then they will hardley be anyone left in the school. (Continued…)
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