Don't Gamble with the Future: Innes and McGuire

By Broadside Asst. News Editor Rebecca Fulton
Photo by Broadside Photography Editor Courtney Erland

Alex Innes and Christine McGuire have a platform widely based on student organization activity within Mason. It incorporates students getting involved in organizations on campus, and in turn, those organizations connecting and uniting through student government to better the university.

“We feel that student government is the connector to all of these organizations,” Innes said. “The Hispanic Student Association, just as an example, should be able to rely on student government to help them publicize their event. By having student government connect student organizations, they may possibly be able to grow their organization.”

They want to have a clearer, more precise role for student government to have that lets students know that organizations or even individuals can come to them and they will help make organizations better and fix students problems.

“You can’t really go to the average person on campus and say ‘What does your student government do for you?’ Student Government has to balance themselves with other organizations that are on campus,” Innes said. “There are other organizations that already put on great events and do great things. Student government needs to help them so that everybody in that organization understands the role of student government because they’ve helped out their organization.”

Innes and McGuire want to build community support for Mason by having a large volunteer and outreach day during the year. This event would consist of student organizations or individual groups of students going out into the Fairfax area and do a mass community service day. They feel that this will give the Fairfax area a reason to have Mason’s well being at the forefront of their minds.

“Not only will that benefit Mason and our image within the community, but maybe that can be something that we start as a tradition; that would be a great for Fairfax to see Mason,” McGuire said.

Innes and McGuire say they have realistic goals for many of the problems that face Mason today.

“We understand the realities of not only working with students within student government, but working with students outside of student government, working with the administration and having realistic goals on what can actually happen within our time as president and vice president, as well as what we can get started and continue on down the line,” Innes said.

Read more about these two at: alexandchristineformason.com.

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