The Freshman Leadership Council met Wednesday to review their past accomplishments and to discuss things they could do in the future. Past initiatives taken by the FLC include prompting the roommate compatibility survey for Resident Life and raising $2,000 for the Ruckus campaign to register students for free and legal downloads. Also at the meeting, Madeline Peters, director of the Freshman Leadership Council, posed the question, “What would a day at the University be like without Student Government?” to engage students in the upcoming SG elections. Peters has led the council since its inception this past fall. The council’s goal is to get freshman involved in SG. Eighty-five freshman applied, and only 35 were admitted to the council. Peters said her main goal with the council is to get students involved with the University “from the beginning.” Council members join committees and discuss various issues like summer orientation, bus routes and high school visits. “My goal is to give them every opportunity I can,” Peters said. Tyler Batiste, The Daily Reveille sports editor, spoke at the meeting on relations between student media and SG. Batiste said “both entities are necessary” for the other to completely perform its job. Batiste also said although relations between the two are sometimes “volatile,” they need to work together for the students. “You have to report on the truth – good or bad,” Batiste said. Freshmen on the council get information on the activities of SG, giving them an opportunity to eventually serve as an officer. Iftekhar Rouf, accounting freshman and council member, said more students should get involved in groups like this, so they can be informed of what goes on at the University. “It’s really, really important for freshmen to get involved,” he said. “It’s not just [about] going to class and getting a degree.” Rouf also emphasized the question Peters offered at the meeting. He said students need to understand what SG does for the University in order to understand how important it is. “Students need to know what Student Government’s doing for them,” Rouf said. Andy Palermo, UCAC Senator, said one of the issues SG is discussing that freshman council members can get involved with is examining the academic calendar. “We’re trying to move spring break to the week after Easter,” Palermo said.