Student Government Traditions
Evelyn Reiman recalls two Student Government traditions: Governor Jim Hunt's annual call to the new student body president and the annual signing of the student body president's desk.
Interview on 2012-04-26 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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With Jim Hunt. I'm very pleased that the new library bears his name
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and I will say that to a person I would have the student body presidents mention how he had reached out to them,
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often when they were first elected, so they would feel this very special kind of touch from Gov. Hunt,
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kind of congratulating them and talking a little bit about what student government meant to him.
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They have a tradition...the student body president will sign the inside of their desk drawer,
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and I didn't discover that right away. I can't remember who finally let the cat out of the bag on that.
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So you see, a little bit like the Declaration of Independence, right, they have a desk that they inherit when they become student body president
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and so the top drawer gets signed and the kind of things that you can infer about students based on how they choose to sign their name.
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