Students elect new SGA president

By Brittany Andrews
Staff Writer

The winners of the 2005 UNCP SGA election, with 463 votes, are Marko Gospojevic, SGA president, and Broch Clinton, SGA vice-president.

This year’s voter turnout was the highest in UNCP history with a total of 851 votes.

The results of the election were announced at the SGA meeting on March 30.

Gospojevic and Clinton said they are happy they won and intend to make positive changes to the school.

“We care about the issues of the students,” Gospojevic said. “One of our goals is to improve school spirit.”

Gospojevic said he hopes to bring popular rock bands and rap artists to the school so that students can look back and say they had fun at UNCP.

Gospojevic also said he wants to prevent the onslaught of parent/professor conferences from passing through the SGA.

“I feel it’s wrong and violates the law that ensures student privacy,” Gospoje-vic said.

However, if he had to make a concession he said that it should only be required for freshmen because Gospojevic said the transition from high school to college is hard.

Another one of his concerns is conditions in girls’ dorms.

“From 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. there is no hot water in the girls’ dorms,” Gospojevic said. “And my second concern is the pH and cleanliness of the water.”

“I want people to live as comfortably as possible,” Gospojevic said.

Gospojevic said he would respect the other SGA presidential candidates’ ideas expressed during the campaign.

A main goal, Gospoje-vic said he would be very active in informing students of what the SGA is and what it can do for the student body.

“I will go door-to-door if I have to,” Gospojevic said. “The SGA will be about enthusiasm, energy and school spirit.”

“It’s going to be a lot of work, but we’re up to it,” Clinton said.

Gospojevic and Clinton said the parent/professor conference day would be the first order of business for them in the fall when they assume leadership of SGA.