Wise Words from the Student Body President Himself... Meet Dion Kevin

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Um, yeah, I'm, uh I mean, what do you mean, what? What am I, Wolfers? No. Where are you right now? We're in the Espy office, but really, we share this office with the black student union and rebel. Walls of their skin searched because some construction going on the campus. Then what's your position? And as B. Yeah, S O. S. P stands for associates, dead bodies. Just the governing body of the student body on campus. So as president, what exactly do you do? Uh, it really just means that I get to be the premier spokesperson for the student body when it comes to interacting with shared governance, our campus or with official bodies, and not the capital in Mississippi or in D. C. Than you know, I'm sort of the student liaison between all these different, you know, different bodies that make up our university and, you know, govern how things, how things operate. We do a lot of things were student government made up of about one hundred seventy five different students, each playing their part reaching in different parts of the student body. We really affect each area, you know, It could be athletics, academics or sustainability efforts, things like that. So we scheduled programs way could bring speakers on campus. We have a legislative body that writes resolutions and bills that you request the university leadership, you know, affect some sort of change on campus. Everything from changing mascots to getting free scan shrines provided requesting student fees be, you know, increased or decreased, you know, to pay for specific things that students want to basically a lot of things on campus. Yeah, we try to try to listen to what the students have to say. So you kind of know what students want is the times changes the years. Change of the student body gets bigger and diversifies things like that on. So it's It's a really great experience. It's really cool opportunity and a root privilege for us to be ableto represent such a large swath of students in a large in diverse array of students on campus because there's a lot of different needs, and it's just really great privilege be able to do that. So I grew up in a house maybe three miles from campus my entire life. I mean, a lot to Trent Lott Leadership Institute, which offers a major, which is public policy leadership, was really specific. Told Mess, and it's really kind of opens your horizons if you're interested in public policy. Um, and it would really kind of give me an opportunity to develop my skills in the area. I guess what's one of your favorite parts of the campus? And I guess one of your least favorite part of you. I really love how everyone on campus is kind of in tune with you know, sort of the spirit of what's going on. So I studied abroad once a master and went to university, where a lot of students, computers and I didn't really feel that sort of climate on campus for everyone, sort of knew each other and cared about things that were going on the campus. As soon as I came back, I couldn't really pinpoint that and see, like, you know, how collected the student body is how everyone feels welcome and, you know, part of the family. So we always preached that whenever we get students to come here and visit, tell him to come the whole mess. It's a really big recruitment tactic, and it's definitely something that's that's really here. So what would you say? It was like one of their release era parts and not favorite parts. It's hard to pick a thing that I don't like that much about. Old Mass. Just because I feel like even the things that people may be looked down on all mess for it's a It's a pretty nuanced aspect of almost a pre nuance characteristic, because we could turn it on its head and say, You know, we're growing from it. For example, almost as most people know, it's pretty steeped in its sort of racial history, and people kind of turn and look at that and say, You know, that's a bad part of all mass. It's been something that's really changed the way I think about the world. I mean, we have a conversation daily about you know, how to reconcile, you know, our past and how to make a mess. You know, a beacon for other institutions across the country that may be dealing with some somewhere sorts pass. So it's really hard for me to pinpoint maybe maybe the food options right now, because our student union is just now up and running at least the food court area on. I don't really have any problems with university. So I guess if just for the end of it, would you What's something that you would say that someone that's thinking of coming on this or something you would like them to know? I mean, frankly, oh, Master people will recruit you with with saying things like, you know, family feel. We have the grove, All this stuff like that, um, but it really is a school where you can you can become the person you you're envisioning yourself to be. You could be a double or triple major and still do as much as you want on campus involvement is really fun and really easy on campus. You really get that experiential learning aspect of college as opposed to just the the straight rigor of academics. I've met people, you know, being a twenty two year resident boxer. I got to know I was expected to just hang out at my high school friends, but I really have to meet a ton of people from all over the world.