The student government association is going to look a little different next semester.
Students had the opportunity to hear from the officer candidate’s last Wednesday at meet the candidate night. The student body then voted on Monday and Tuesday to elect their new candidates.
Freshman, Brayden Stoner from Arkansas City, Kansas and junior America Rios from Alva ran unopposed for president and secretary.
Stoner who was the candidate for president said he would describe his leadership style as one on one because in a one on one situation you are able to connect more.
Officers will need to be able to have good time management as they are adding being an SGA officer to their already busy schedules.
Rios who ran for secretary said she is currently president of a club and has two jobs. With those experiences, she said she is good at time management and is willing to sacrifice anything she may need to in order to make time for SGA.
Sophomore, Chloe Lehr from Alva and freshman, Kevin Kaumans from Kiowa, Kansas ran against each other for the vice president position. Lehr was named vice president with 154 votes.
Officers will work closely with all the clubs on campus as well as the student body. Lehr said she loves how diverse Northwestern is and if you look at the clubs on campus, there is something for everyone.
Lehr said she thinks this is huge for such a small university.
The position of treasurer also had two people running for it, junior, Harlie Atland from Vici and freshman, Oliva Pride from Arkansas City, Kansas. Atland won with 114 votes.
Lehr would describe her leadership style as goal orientated.
“I think that goal orientated leadership is important because you can come together as a group or individually and have goals to start with you have something to work toward,” Lehr said.
Another important aspect of any leadership role is being able to take failure and turn it around.
This is especially important for SGA officers as not all of their events may be successful on campus but they will need to be able to put the pass behind them, move to the next event and learn from their failure.
“With any type of failure it is not a bad thing as long as you learn from it,” Stoner said.
The new officers will be inducted on April 22 at the last SGA meeting of the year.
Additionally Olivia Yandel is stepping down as SGA advisor and Kaylea Brown will be taking her place.
