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After Monday's posting of the 68 points, SGA's new administration has released a statement thanking the students involved and welcoming the changes they suggest.
"Basically we want to comment as a new administration," said Rianka Urbina, the newly elected Vice President and junior finance major. "We want to say thank you."
Urbina and newly elected President Emily Mashack, are looking at this protest in a positive light and are using it to improve current problems with the SGA."A lot of the comments in here offer solutions," Mashack said. "It's great that a student took their time to read our constitution because the SGA constitution is the constitution of the student body."
The two stated that they have read over all of the 68 points and invite the students to come to them and other SGA representatives to help make improvements. "Our doors are always open," Urbina said.
In addition, Urbina said that the new administration is planning on making changes to the constitution over the summer, and will plan on using its legislative branch next year to make changes. "SGA is not all about programming," she said. "It has a legislative branch, let's use it."
Urbina concluded by saying that this is the first time in Virginia Tech history that both the President and Vice President positions are filled by women, and that the organization is intending on making more history for the university.
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I applaud the new officers for learning from past mistakes and listening to those that approach them. Hopefully this will bring about real change as is stated on the SGA homepage. Everyone needs to remember that one branch can't do it alone though, as there are issues in every branch of SGA. Hopefully the executive branch will use their power and influence on the others to keep anything like this from happening again.
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Isn't it still up in the air whether Urbina should have even won the election?
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Winning is being in office. She is. That won't change. So she won. Short choppy sentences. Awesome.
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I can second this desire as in a large slew of emails last night she was the only person that cared enough to respect my opinion. Mr. Kress and Mr. Bock both told me that removal of votes was ok because due process was followed. The way I see it, due process could remove the executive and legislative branches if they don't watch out and do as Mr. Bock says.
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Get up and show SGA the outrage. If you feel your vote should never be taken away please join this group. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12902636117
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She will almost certainly remain in office as another poster said, but that does not necessarily mean that she won but merely that she got the position by some means. It remains that she is not the candidate that a majority of the students voted for.
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Chris, you really need to get a life dude.
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And you posted too so you don't?
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