Mission possible. Jon Bragg and Rebecca Fitch have won the USG elections.

Our verdict? Pretty darn cool. It just shows that BGSU is becoming more integrated and open-minded. Our majority of white students voted a second minority student to the presidency.

It’s also the first time that an African-American has been elected to the USG presidency.

Bragg and Fitch didn’t win by a landslide, but they did win. In fact, voter turnout was pretty high in this election. Maybe the diversity spurred more students to vote for the candidates. Maybe the students felt they were better represented by these candidates.

We’re proud that the students voted to elect a minority student to the highest office on our campus. The times…they are changing. Definitely for the better.

Now that the elections are over, we have a few suggestions for your next year in office, Bragg and Fitch. How’s that for our official congratulations?

USG, to the average student, seems to be a big, secret organization that doesn’t effect anything about them.

To the rest of the campus, USG meetings are boring and rather worthless. Besides the coverage in The BG News, no one would really know that USG does anything significant on campus.

This needs to change. There’s nothing wrong with making USG accessible to the students. Every USG candidate since the Stone Age has campaigned on this issue, yet no president has been successful at actually involving students.

We admit that we really don’t know anything about USG procedures or policies, but there must be some way to include students or make them more interested in what you’re doing.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to raise student interest in what you are doing next year. Give us issues and ideas that will actually work.

We told all the candidates to excite the campus about what is happening. USG doesn’t need to be looked at as an exclusive, secret society that students simply criticize and complain about. People criticize what they don’t know. USG needs to get itself into the spotlight, with issues that really matter to everyone.

All right, the schedule is something that was worked on this year. People talked about the parking lots, the calendar, and the off-campus meal cards. But, did anything actually get clarified and cleared up this year? Nope, the issues were bogged down in bureaucratic land, to someday come back as bright and shining new laws for the students.

There is no easy solution, in fact, we don’t even have one for you. However, you can think of new ideas to excite the students on this campus, and to even get them involved.

Bragg ‘ Fitch, our dynamic duo for the ’01-’02 school year, you have the unique opportunity to bring even more diversity to the table and to bring unity to the campus.

We wish you the best of luck, Mr. Bragg and Ms. Fitch. The world (or rather, the campus) is watching.