How active is student government at your school?

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<p>I'm just wondering. Do student governments at your school get things done? or is it just a smaller scale version of the government today where they make lots of promises but never get much accomplished?</p>

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<p>The goverenment at my school funds the student clubs and other things, but I don’t think they get much else accomplished. Only 15% of the student body knows what their abbreivation GOB(Government Of the student Body) stands for or could recognize what GOB is.
I go to a large public university, over 25,000 students.</p>

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<p>When I toured UCLA there were two student political parties actively campaigning. Dunno if that’s typical.</p>

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<p>They’re more of a nuisance, if anything.</p>

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<p>my college has a student government???</p>

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<p>GOB? <a href=“http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2008/06/gob-bluth.jpg[/url]”>http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2008/06/gob-bluth.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I don’t know how much the ASG (Associated Student Government) does at my school. I think they’re very active in the sense that they have lots of meetings, and people campaign very fervently for officer positions, and I think they give some funding to clubs, but I’m not sure how much else they do. I was considering running to be a representative in ASG, but my current rep told me it was a waste of time. He said that in the end, all ASG can really do is find out what the students want and then make recommendations to the University, but that they don’t have the authority to actually do anything. So I dunno. They’re active in the sense that they have lots of meetings and encourage students to give them opinions, but I don’t know how much they actually get done.</p>

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<p>When I was student body president the other year at the CC I went to, we got tons of stuff done. I think it depends on the school and how much authority and funding student government is given to accomplish goals.</p>

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<p>^Well as the president, you’re going to think you accomplished a lot. That doesn’t mean you did and/or affected the lives of the students around you. (I have a rather cynical view of student governments. I think they’re unnecessary installations of bureaucracy into the college experience.)</p>

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<p>Most of our student government dropped out of school…</p>

<p>yay community college!</p>