{"id":14325,"date":"2022-03-02T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=14325"},"modified":"2022-03-02T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:43:46","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-new-student-government-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/14325","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: New Student Government President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Caleb Lubbers&#8211;<\/strong>I have been incredibly blessed and honored to be elected the next student body President of Morningside University.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few years, a level of divisiveness similar to that seen in our national government has been infecting our student government. It\u2019s time for this to change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previous student government administrations have held the misguided view that our institution has to be an extension of the Morningside University administration. I completely and wholeheartedly reject this philosophy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Morningside Student Government should elevate student voices and give those who need to be heard a platform to do so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My peers elected me, and therefore, I am obligated to serve the interest of my peers. I will not serve the Housing Department or the University Administration; I will represent the student body that elected me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, I do not have to approach this daunting task alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout my time at Morningside, I have built a close network of friends that I will rely on for advice and guidance. These friends will be instrumental in the success of my administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the other members of the Executive Council that I was elected alongside will be instrumental in bringing this necessary change. I have the utmost confidence we will be able to work together to create reforms in a productive and positive manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While no one knows what the future has in store for my administration, you can be certain I will be giving it the old college try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Caleb Lubbers&#8211;I have been incredibly blessed and honored to be elected the next student body President of Morningside University.&nbsp;&nbsp; Over the past few years, a level of divisiveness similar to that seen in our national government has been infecting our student government. It\u2019s time for this to change.&nbsp; Previous student government administrations have held&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":14330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54021],"tags":[46944,56187,46880,6119],"class_list":["post-14325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-morningsideathletics","tag-morningsidestudents","tag-msidelife","tag-morningside-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14331,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325\/revisions\/14331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}