Kickball in college?

On April 9, the Resident Student Association and the Student Government Association had a field day at West Campus to strengthen the bond between the two organizations.

The field day consisted of kickball between RSA and SGA members, cornhole, throwing flying discs and grilling burgers. The day was relaxing for most attendees, including SGA senior Sen. Patty McGuire.

“I was sitting and I could see the baseball field and see all the greens. It’s really pretty and the rain washed away the pollen, so it is really nice to be outside and have a cookout and relax,” McGuire said.

For SGA, building relationships with other student organizations like RSA is imperative.

“I think it’s very important for us as elected people to sort of make sure our relationships with different (Recognized Student Organizations) around campus are good. Seeing how RSA is the representative body of all of the residence halls, I feel like they’re a very large asset to the campus community and I think that we need to maintain a relationship with them,” SGA President Zach Mullins said.

At-large Sen. Paul Danaj is part of the Resident Constituency Representation Assessment Ad-hoc, which was created to improve relations with residents of University Housing, and he organized the field day.

“I was like, ‘That’d be cool if we did that with SGA and RSA.’ So I brought that to the committee, and the committee liked the idea, and so we just started planning from there, and it evolved into this,” Danaj said.

SGA and RSA members maintain individual relationships with each other, but SGA wanted to plan a formal event to build relationships between the groups as wholes.

“I think it’s important for us to become apparent to a lot of students around campus that we are making an effort to unify with this organization and become very cohesive on a lot of the policies and things that we’re talking about and developing,” Mullins said. “We really wanted to do a formal event because we do a lot of informal things and it’s just to solidify it more on paper and such.”

Posted by Courtney Kelly on Apr 16 2010. Filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry