Organizations on this campus, whether discipline-related or service-oriented, cater to the varied interests of students but it can quickly become complicated for students to locate clubs.
Other colleges and universities, such as Palo Alto College, have designated offices and work areas for student organizations; here, we have nothing.
It’s difficult enough for new students to find the office of student life in its upstairs location in Loftin Student Center and no one but a work-study student on the ground floor.
Students need to be able to find others with similar interests and peer representatives without having to hunt through fliers posted on hard-to-find bulletin boards.
The Student Government Association, especially, needs to be high profile. We have more than 22,000 students. Is everyone really supposed to be available to attend their once weekly meeting?
SGA should have an office in the student center and a phone line with voice mail. As the first floor bookstore annex never materialized, we would like to recommend installing SGA in that space. Let’s keep our space for our students to use — not outside vendors.
The SGA could be so much more effective if students knew where to find it.
But that is just a start. Northeast Lakeview College has a number of wired and equipped meeting spaces for use by student organizations.
Our students are no less deserving. Involvement in student organizations is important, so show it by giving them a way to attract new members and have a mode of communication for interested students.
Students need to know what is available. We need a centralized place to communicate about events each of these organizations plans.
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