UGASGA.com would like to congratulate SGA Senator Benjamin Sermons, winner of the first UGASGA Senator of the Week Award.
This popped-collar wearin’, croakie lovin’, knockoff Blackberry sportin’ SGA senator should be considered an outstanding individual.
Not only does Ben spend time to work with HERO, Tate Society (strangely all of last year’s Freshman Board are members of the Tate Society, but that’s for a different post), and be a Bible-beating Republican, he also finds the time to do excellent work for SGA.
Senator Sermons is the chairman of the External Affairs Committee with SGA, which is charged with:
The External Affairs Committee represents the student body in local, state, and national governmental affairs. This committee works closely with both the Athens-Clarke County Commission as well as the General Assembly and other elements of state government.
External Affairs has done its job so well, in fact, that Athens-Clarke County and the state General Assembly continue to ignore UGA students and our student government association.
During his term in office, Senator Sermons has managed to spend student money without hesitation, put on shitty programs, and keep SGA fashionable.
Most recently, Senator Sermons was in charge of the State Relations Day, a gigantic clusterf-©k. Senator Sermons sent out invitations to the event which noted the special guest as Speaker Pro Tempore of the Georgia House Mark Burkhalter. When Burkhalter cancelled, Sermons insisted that the Senate President Pro Tempore Eric Johnson would be attending.
Neither of these influential Georgians were present at Sermon’s State Relations Day. In fact, no one of influence was at State Relations Day. Instead, Sermon’s managed to put on what ultimately was a catered BBQ dinner for SGA.
Senator Sermon’s has continued to claim that State Relations Day was a very popular program, even though ZERO students unaffiliated with SGA showed up to the expensive program.
As SGA’s representative to the Athens-Clarke County Commission, Sermons has managed to attend zero Commission meetings. In his absence, Sermons has managed to make sure no one attended for him.
So while the State is making sure we have few professors, and ACC is making sure we are taxed to our fullest and our Greek community cannot reside off campus, Senator Sermons has done nothing for the students of UGA.
Congratulation, Senator Benjamin Sermons, first winner of the UGASGA Senator of the Week Award!
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I, for the most part, find this “glorified blog” (it is not deserving of the esteemed title “website” in today’s e-empire) to be whiney and childish, but out of curiosity and lack of any willpower I decided to see what “unfair,” as President Peper (not “Pepper,” as she is repeatedly named due to what I assume to be lack of credibility) puts it, finger-pointing has been posted lately. Reading this particular “article” raised a few questions in my, what I like to think of as fairly reasonable, mind. Is it really Senator Sermons’ fault that the elected position-holders of this state don’t care about students? As far as I know, Senator Sermons was not of voting age at the time of the last election. Is it his fault that students are abhorant of and indifferent toward politics in their own society? And is it really your own fault, glorified blogger, that the University of Georgia did not teach you basic grammatical rules and generally decent writing? Could it be, rather, that instead of polishing your editorial skills you are researching the Facebook news feed for the relationship status changes on senators’ profiles? Before you jump to the conclusion that I am one of SGA’s “cronies,” let me say in my defense (because goodness knows that everyone at this school needs some defense against your adolescent bullying) that I am simply an advocate of anyone making an effort to put themselves in the spotlight (or the gallows, in this case) to make a change, rather than ranting behind a web address.
The word is “abhorrent”, Ben. Or did your popped collar and croakies get in the way when you were typing? Phi Alpha Gamma all the way man!
Well, I am certainly not Ben Sermons, but I will take your criticism constructively. Thank you for the correction.
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