Sparkman for Student Affairs

Junior Paige Sparkman has a lot of Duke Student Government experience—she has been a Senator

for three years on both the Facilities and Athletics committee and the Student Affairs committee and is currently serving as DSG’s Public Relations Director—and this experience will benefit her in her bid for Vice President of Student Affairs.

Sparkman seems to have the knowledge and connections necessary to communicate both with the student body and others organizations. This communication is necessary for all of DSG, but particularly important for the VP of Student Affairs since a lot of the issues Student Affairs deals with overlap with other groups. It is important for the VP of Student Affairs to find out what students’ concerns are and then work in conjunction with Campus Council, the Union and the administration to address those concerns. Sparkman’s PR experience will be beneficial in that regard.

At the top of Sparkman’s agenda is continuing, and hopefully completing, the organization and implementation of a system for online event registration. Although this may seem like a menial project, it will actually be a wonderful asset to student life on campus. Right now, the difficulty of registering an event and reserving space for that event discourages students from hosting events on campus, and streamlining the process would be a positive step in improving social life.

Sparkman also wants to tackle some of the funding problems with DSG, particularly the security fund cap. It is good that Sparkman wants to address these issues since funding presents some of the most pressing problems for the organization.

The Chronicle endorses Paige Sparkman for VP of Student Affairs.