SGA to continue slated projects, focus on diversity

Only a few minutes after former SGA vice president Carli Hendershot announced her resignation, former president pro-tempore Bryan Kubel was ready to raise his right hand and step up.

Kubel said he had known for a few days and had run Senate for Hendershot while she was hospitalized the week before. But, while he was holding on to a large secret, he didn’t have much time to prepare.

He will be taking over three large projects from Hendershot, including creating a “B” on the football field which is set to happen this weekend, working with athletics to create Chirp City alternative tailgate, and implementing 24-hour library hours for finals week.

At the same time, he has still been continuing the pro-tempore responsibilities during the transition, including updating the public SGA Google Drive account. Kubel created the account so anyone could access the SGA’s documents online, and he hopes it will continue, he said.

Nominations to replace Kubel as pro-tempore will take place at the next Senate meeting at 3:15 p.m. Sept. 17.

“Bryan’s definitely going to fill the role really well,” said Nick Wilkey, president of SGA. “He helped with some of the platform points that we’re doing this weekend. The ‘B’ on the football field was actually his idea, so him taking over the platform points that he came up with is pretty weird.”

Hendershot also said she was positive about leaving her position with Kubel.

“I definitely don’t have any concerns about the platform continuing,” she said. “I know Bryan Kubel is very passionate about SGA and a lot of the platforms I was working on myself ... and I’m sure with diversity, he’ll work with our secretary of diversity to make sure that those things do happen.”

During the campaign, Wilkey said Hendershot was able to connect with many people around campus. Not just saying a simple "hi," but knowing about their lives.

“When I ran [for president], I thought I knew a lot of people on campus, but I could never go on a walk with Carli and not stop like every five seconds, and she would talk with [people] for a good minute,” Wilkey said. “She knew a lot about people. She actually connected with people well.”

As such, she naturally became a big voice promoting diversity in their platform points. She has served as a multicultural advisor and as the SGA representative for Spectrum, an LGBTQ support group.

Kubel said that just because they no longer have that voice does not mean diversity is any less important to the executive board.

“Having a diverse campus is something that we all want and continue to want to have here at Ball State,” Kubel said. “And just because we don’t have the person that was the vocal voice of diversity on the slate anymore, we can also pick up the slack and make it all of our goals to make it a platform point for this upcoming term.”

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