(Source: via Flickr) Student government is the most powerful lobbying group on-campus. In 2016, a group of four senators used student government to successfully lobby university leadership to adopt a campus-wide tobacco-free policy which is still in effect today. Student government in 2016 also called on leadership to raise tuition, raise the mandatory athletics fee for all students and in other years advocated for many other initiatives that moved university leadership to act. The lesson here is that if student government adopts your cause, then significant things can happen for your cause. However, inside the organization, SGA governs itself by a popular parliamentary rulebook called Roberts Rules of Order. Created by Henry Martin Robert in 1876, many regard Roberts Rules as the authoritative manual for how to govern an organization according to parliamentary order. However, this rulebook means that while senators are free to voice opinions, official adoption of those opin...
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