It’s another great year at West Virginia University. Welcome to the 2009-2010 school year! What an exciting year this will be – a great football and basketball season, a new University President, and an exciting new freshman class. It’s a great time to be a Mountaineer.

As your student leaders, we’re committed to helping make our student experience the best it can be and we invite you to be a part of it. SGA is an exciting way to get involved on campus, to have your voice heard, to work on important issues, and to make a difference. There are many ways you can get involved. You can attend meetings on Wednesday evenings, blog at sga.wvu.edu, email us with your concerns, initiate a program, or even run for office. We hope you’ll take time this year to join us in making a difference at WVU.

Your voice matters and that’s why this year, SGA is expanding our Speak UP campaign to include SGA Across Campus – in which we’ll move one SGA meeting a month to another location around town. We invite you to join us to speaking up about issues that are important to us – and together, we can make a tremendous difference.

Over the coming months, we’re going to address some big issues facing campus. First, we want to continue the work on Club Sports. Hundreds of WVU students participate in Club Sports and we know that those who do perform well in the classroom, on the field, and the teams are yet grossly underfunded. We’ll also continue the fight to lower textbook costs, and we’ll lead the way to fund a new Student Health Center because we all deserve a quality center to provide physical and mental care.

We are all so lucky. We are Mountaineers. We belong to a proud tradition expanding well over a century and one that has included some remarkable men and women, spectacular events, and an institution steeped in pride. We should join together as students to be good fans, good students, and to let our voices be heard on important student issues. If we do that, we’ll make WVU an even better place.

We hope to hear from you. Visit sga.wvu.edu or email us at Jason.Zuccari@mail.wvu.edu or Whitney.Peters@mail.wvu.edu.

Let’s Go Mountaineers,
Jason Zuccari and Whitney Rae Peters