EDITORIAL: To better represent FIU as a whole, SGA should merge as one
- Dec 12, 2017
- 1 min read
Despite fervent protests from Biscayne Bay Campus students, the idea of a merger between the Student Government Council at BBC and the Student Government Council at Modesto Maidique Campus is moving more towards becoming a reality.
This editorial was originally written on behalf of the PantherNOW e-board and was featured in PantherNOW. The editorial focuses on the possible merging of MMC and BBC's SGA.
Check out the editorial's excerpt below and click the link if you want to read the full story!
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Maytinee Kramer/Opinion Director
Despite fervent protests from Biscayne Bay Campus students, the idea of a merger between the Student Government Council at BBC and the Student Government Council at Modesto Maidique Campus is moving more towards becoming a reality.
The proposed change that would combine the two councils was discussed during a student and administrator comprised and university-wide constitutional committee on Tuesday, Nov. 28.
Up until the early 90’s, FIU did have one SGA, but it was then reconstituted into two governments.
Since then, we at PantherNOW have long advocated for MMC and BBC’s SGA to be one cohesive unit. FIU is one university — BBC and MMC are only an hour’s drive away from one another, many students take classes at both, and we only have one president in Mark B. Rosenberg — but our student life has been divided in its leadership and options.
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Photo courtesy of Nicole Malanga.
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