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- SGA President Kalief Metellus
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- Campus Life Senator Oluwademilade Ogunlade
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- Academic Senator Kevin Adams-Edwards
After weeks of candidates promoting their flyers on social media and attending Student Government Association meetings, students finally made their decisions and voted for SGA candidates at the polls.
The positions in the ballots were president, vice president of clubs and organizations, academic senators, and campus life senators. The candidates received the results last Thursday night. Kalief Metellus won SGA President. He is the first black openly gay man to be elected president.
“Being a homeless student,” Metellus said, “I plan as SGA president to help homeless students get year-round housing. I also will push to have more variety of food in the cafeteria, to represent the diversity of every student, to extend library hours until 2-3 a.m., to get computers for the dorms, to get a nap room for commuter students, to create an app for parking to cut the time wasted looking for parking, to getting new washers/dryers, and to extend bus running times to accommodate students that work off campus. Lastly, I want to accommodate students with disabilities who attend the college to make them feel more included.”
Metellus is in the Educational Opportunity Program at SUNY OW, majoring in Politics, Economics and Law. He won “Homecoming Lord” his freshman year. He currently holds a president’s position for his club Hairitage, a club that teaches/empowers people to love their hair and how to manage it. The club has done a range of things from beauty bars to panels on stereotypes about black hair. His current goals are to graduate, attend law school and become a lawyer to be of service to his community.
Newly-elected campus life senator Oluwademilade Ogunlade said: “My hopes include incorporating student concerns into conversations surrounding campus policy change, encouraging student leadership amongst the student body and enriching campus life for both residents and commuters.”
Other winners include Kimberly Omezi who became the vice president of clubs and organizations; Kevin Adams-Edwards and Julia Peralta who become academic senators; and campus life senators Jashey Matheson and Jessica Smith. The new vice president of communications is Marsheley Souverin.
