The 20 days and 20 nights of student feedback campaign may have appeared to end last week, culminating with a successful Student Life Forum with Vice-President of Student Life Dr. Eddie Knowles. Yet this campaign was really only the beginning. The real objective is to reshape the student government model at RPI to make it revolve around students. In other words the goal is year-round, interactive student feedback. It is absolutely critical that student government be constantly drawing feedback and input from its constituents, you the students. For that reason I must confess that the 20 days and 20 nights campaign was simply a demonstration of what to expect from Student Government for the remainder of my term and hopefully from here on out. If your club, organization, fraternity, or sorority did not meet with a senator or myself, please drop me a note at gm@rpi.edu and we can set it up for next semester.

One issue that was raised at the Student Life Forum is the idea of improving communication between administration and students and vice versa. As I indicated at the forum, this will be a primary focus of the next half of my term as Grand Marshal. I would like to leave office having helped to develop a better system of direct and continuous student feedback and administrative communication. So often I see gaps in the communication that lead to avoidable misunderstandings. If this issue interests you please e-mail me gm@rpi.edu with your input. The goal next semester will also be to lay a framework upon which future senates can build even more successes and advance the student voice even further.