Publication Date: 04-12-2005
Re-elected PGSG officers set high goals
By Sarah Michalos
Staff Writer
All four officers of Purdue Graduate Student Government were unanimously re-elected at a meeting Monday evening.
At the meeting, all current PGSG officers were allotted a five-minute platform and a five-minute question session.
PGSG is the graduate student equivalent of Purdue Student Government and is made up of students from each graduate program. After the officers were re-elected, they discussed plans to continue their current goals and duties into next semester.
"One focus for this upcoming year is to increase fund raising and have PGSG’s annual Spring Gala paid for," said Jennie Blankert, a graduate student and President of PGSG.
PGSG also hopes to work more intimately with PSG and help its causes, such as the Tsunami relief fund earlier this year and the Sept. 11 T-shirt sale.
"We’d like to have more visibility among the undergrads to better serve them," Blankert said.
One issue PGSB is concerned with is the current smoking ban. They hope that the group’s involvement with this issue will bring them into more direct contact with the students.
"We have worked with the administration to get acknowledged, and now we’re bringing the administration to the students," Blankert said.
