SGA Vice President resigns

Student Government Association Vice President Adam Nisbet resigned Wednesday amid controversy following his Jan. 23 arrest by the Milledgeville Police Department.

Nisbet said he resigned instead of facing impeachment by his SGA colleagues.

According to the Milledgeville police report, Nisbet and Robert Totten were arrested and charged with larceny and violating the narcotic drug law.

“I have chosen to resign from my position within SGA due to the encompassing emotions and energies that I must exert towards the other involvements within my life,” said Nisbet. “Unfortunately I didn’t speak up to the degree that I should have. Please realize, at no time did I stop representing the students in the light that I always have.”

According to the police report, Nisbet and Totten were in Totten’s College Station apartment when police seized a quantity of suspected marijuana, several marijuana smoking devices, and several street and warning signs belonging to the city of Milledgeville and Georgia College & State University.

According to the Board of Regents policy manual, SGA must follow the guidelines to being a registered student organization. Those guidelines specify that student organizations including but not limited to societies, fraternities, sororities, clubs and similar groups of students which are affiliated with, recognized by, or which use the facilities under the jurisdiction of institutions of the University System, are hereby charged with the responsibility of enforcing compliance with local, state and federal laws by all persons attending or participating in their respective functions and affairs, social or otherwise.

If SGA doesn’t comply with these regulations provided by the Student Organization Responsibility for Drug Abuse Act, they will be sanctioned. In violation of the laws of this state, they shall have its recognition as a student organization withdrawn and, after complying with the constitutional requirements of due process, shall be expelled from the campus for a minimum of one calendar year from the date of determination of guilt.

“I think Adam added a unique element to SGA,” said Eddie Howard, advisor for SGA. “He had a lot of growing to do, and there were some things he was trying to get accomplished. This is unfortunate that this happened to him, but I know they are going to move on without him because they have a lot of good people in there. There are a lot of people that will keep SGA a float. But Adam definitely added a different type of flavor to it.”

SGA President Keith Woodruff said he had no comment concerning Nisbet’s resignation.

“I thought SGA was the best way for me to have an impact on the progress of this school and the best way for me to push that progress along,” said Nisbet. “But lately I have become discouraged by what has been going on within this organization and my own ability to achieve the goals I had set forth to help the students and this University within this
organization.”

SGA president pro-tem, Roy Henry, will be replacing Nisbet as SGA vice president.

“Roy is very detail orientated. Roy is always on top of things, and I think Roy is going to make the transition very smoothly. Roy is a no non-sense person though and sometimes that can be good and bad,” said Howard.
“But for the most part I think the SGA will be fine with Roy taking on the
responsibility of vice presidency.”

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