The Oct. 30, the general senate meeting of the Student Government Association (SGA) lasted only 45 minutes, but much of the talk revolved around its outreach to student organizations hoping to promote themselves at this year’s home basketball games.
After setting an application deadline of Oct. 21 at the last SGA meeting on Oct. 16, Vice President of Student Life Jovan Paige disclosed that only three organizations had applied on SGA’s OrgSync page prior to that deadline. The application was still available on SGA’s OrgSync page as of today.
“A lot of organizations don’t check their OrgSync as often as they would check their PantherMail,” Paige said.
One of those organizations was SGA itself. The other two were the 1913 Society and the Student Alumni Association.
“We just kind of attributed it to the fact that that a lot of people just didn’t know about it. So in the future we still have to promote OrgSync as the main outlet for information as far as different forms and different initiatives we’re trying to get passed,” Paige said.
In addition, Vice President of Academic Affairs Sebastian Parra announced early in the meeting that the plan now stands to have 20 organizations promote themselves at events instead of the original plans for 30 organizations.
The amount of organizations rose from three to 20 because at the deadline, Paige worked with Vice President of Public Relations Camryn Bradley to push for more organizations to apply with flyers and through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Want your Student Organization to be highlighted at the next big gsupanthers Athletics event? Apply today at: https://t.co/wY8Me1lf4y
— Georgia State SGA (@GSU_SGA) October 27, 2014
He said that 20 applicants total was an ideal number to settle on.
The official list of the Organizations of the Game made reference to SGA on two occasions. It did so once as “SGA” and the second as “Student Government Association.”
Paige said that the next step in the process is for Georgia State Athletics assistant director of marketing Parker Hendricks to meet with athletic director Charlie Cobb to figure out which games will feature the student organization promotions.
Athletics would bring those dates back to Paige, who said he would organize those dates where a representative of each organization would come to the SGA office and draw which game they would promote themselves at.
The organizations would then shoot a video that would be featured on the video board at the Sports Arena at halftime.
According to Paige, he sent an email to Hendricks emphasizing his desire to have an equal number of men’s and women’s games feature the student organization promotions as was in the original proposal.
“If we couldn’t do 30, one would think that we would just have 15 go to the men’s basketball games because they’re always going to have the most attendance,” Paige said. “We still want it to remain as focused on the original ideologies of the actual bill, which was the help the women’s game as well.”
Paige hoped that all of the organizations would remain involved and that none would pull out in order to have ten for each the men’s and women’s games.
“If not then we’ll do it as closely as we can,” Paige said.
Parra admitted at an Oct. 18 general senate meeting that his original proposal included for the student organizations to only be featured at men’s basketball games.
The Signal attempted to reach out to Camryn Bradley to share his thoughts. He was not available for comment.
Organizations of the Game
· Alpha Kappa Alpha
· Student Alumni Association
· Black Student Alliance
· Quiet Storm Steppers
· Lean In
· African Student Association
· Housing Green Team
· Alpha Xi Delta
· Lacrosse Club
· Sigma Lambda Upsilon
· Delta Zeta
· SGA
· 1913 Society
· Nutrition Student Network
· Student Philanthropy Council
· Kappa Sigma
· Tighter Grip
· Alpha Phi Alpha
· Phi Beta Sigma
· Student Government Association
