Perhaps you’ve been distracted by the Wesleyan football team’s 3-1 start, the unusually warm weather, or the Colorado Rockies historic playoff run, so you may have missed an exciting start to this year’s Wesleyan Student Assembly. That’s alright. Not only do we forgive you, but it’s not too late to get your voice heard.
Our broader goal this year has been to make the WSA a better organization for students. In the past, there has been the feeling that the WSA doesn’t do much, something that’s been reflected in recent elections. This year, however, we’ve put in a lot of work into making the assembly much more relevant and attuned to what students want. I would hope that some of this is apparent in the Argus coverage of the WSA this year — Usdan Prices, the Party Policy, Worker Issues, the New York Times program, the Presidential Climate Commitment — all of these things (and more) have come through the WSA this year.
Above all, we would like the WSA to effective. Have a complaint about dining? GRS? Courses? Usdan? Tell us, and we’ll do something about it. You can find all of our emails on our website, and we are more than happy to work with you or explain how things work so that you can get what you want accomplished. We have seats on all major committees of the University and spend a lot of time arguing on student’s behalf. But we can’t argue for you if you don’t tell us how you feel. Every WSA Meeting begins with an open forum for student concerns, and every meeting is open to anyone who wants to come. They’re at 7 PM in Usdan 108.
This upcoming weekend President Roth is coming in to talk to the Assembly about institutional priorities, or what we want Wesleyan to look like in the future. We’ve been very excited to work with Roth this year and he’s reciprocated in kind, expressing a genuine interest to hear what we have to say. If you want him (or us) to know how you feel, come.
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