Members of the Student Union’s Advisory Council used the summer to plan initiatives, Union members said.
“Since during the summer there aren’t many students, we take it upon ourselves to envision what’s needed and what could be done,” said Kevin Stoll, a member of Union’s advisory council and a College of Arts and Sciences junior.
“The executive board stays during the summer and plans the agenda for the following year with the help of other members of the Student Union in order to make the best of the school year and to help the student body,” he added.
The advisory council also began its countdown for the “ActivateU” campaign, which is designed to build on last year’s “Stop Guessing” campaign, said Union treasurer Sophie Miller, a CAS sophomore.
The campaign aims to promote the Union as a driving force in the BU community by focusing on student leaders, Miller said.
“We plan on meeting one-on-one with student leaders and attending student meetings to hear from these leaders and their groups,” she said. “We want them to know that we can help with anything they need for their organizations. We just want to make ourselves known by the students.”
Stoll said last year’s “Stop Guessing” campaign demonstrated that Union is not “just any organization, but an organization that’s powered for the students and by the students.” However, he said he thinks this year’s theme is a step up from last year’s project.
“Personally, I hope to see SU get a lot more done than they did last year,” he said. “Last year was good, but it could have gone better. We could have had more events, more involvement and more students coming to us.”
Stoll said he expects many students to get involved and voice their opinions to the Union this year.
“I have faith that with the new constitution in play to smooth out meetings and SUAC helping the executive board during the summer, the Student Union during the school year will run more smoothly than ever before,” he said.
Miller said the advisory council began to reach out to freshmen early, offering food at orientation events and meeting new students.
“We just wanted to expose ourselves to them,” she said.
Some freshmen said they are impressed by Union’s reaching out to new students.
“I think they are doing a great job,” said Jie Lin, a CAS freshman. “They had a lot of different kinds of activities.”
“I think it’s too soon to tell, but they did a good job with reaching out at Splash,” said Eric Tom, a freshman in the School of Management.
However, not every student has noticed the Union.
“I haven’t seen them around,” said Gypsy Garcia, a freshman in Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
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