Student Government is kicking off a new semester, and with its onset comes reflections of the past semester and goals for the spring.

Zach Adams, Student Senate president, said some proposals that will be evident in the new semester include supporting service learning, reviewing the new GER proposal, researching tuition spending, lobbying for research grants on state and federal levels and improving publicity.

According to Adams, a senior in industrial engineering, extending tailgating time will definitely be a prominent second-semester goal.

“Eighty percent of the students at N.C. State have at least one more [football] season, and we hope to bring back the spirit to the greatest of football traditions,” he said.

Will Quick, student body president and a senior in biomedical engineering, echoed Adams’ statement concerning the Football Task Force, the committee responsible for evaluating the past year’s policies and setting new ones for the following year.

Quick said he wants to make sure Student Government negotiates the specific terms students want concerning football regulations.

Adam Compton, student body treasurer, said Student Government is focused on the textbook campaign, which plans to produce a book compiled of students photographed with the price of their textbooks displayed on a dry-erase board.

“I think once we get the book together and send it out [to the administration], it will be a lot more successful,” Compton, a junior in construction engineering and management, said. “It’s putting faces to the stuff that we keep harping about.”

According to Quick, he sees the textbook campaign not just as a local concern.

Quick said Erskine Bowles, UNC Board of Governors president, charged each student body president in the UNC system to invent ways to promote textbooks as an issue.

“It’s bigger than just NCSU,” Quick said.

With elections fast approaching, student officials are preparing for election season and the end of their terms in office.

Quick said that although he has heard of a few possible contenders for Student Government officials, no candidates have been confirmed yet.

“I think I’ll be pretty involved with most of the candidates,” he said. “I do intend to make sure they are a little more honest than they have been in the past.”

Compton said he wasn’t sure what exactly was going to occur during election season.

Adams said he expects a heated election season.

“Elections are always intense and dramatic at times, but the competition ensures that student leaders take their position seriously,” he said.

Student Government officials also reflected on the fall 2006 semester.

Quick said although he tends to be an overachiever, he believes Student Government accomplished more than he expected this past semester.

“[Although], I don’t think I could have ever accomplished enough to make me feel happy or 100 percent happy,” he said.

According to Compton, he sees this year as a rebuilding year when compared with previous sessions of Student Government.

“It’s been a different Student Government than I’ve seen,” he said.

Adams also mentioned the final resolution, the Timely Textbook Adoption Act, passed at the last Senate meeting in the fall.

In response to the Act, the number of book lists submitted on time increased by 30 percent, according to Adams.

He said this increase “will save students thousands of dollars by allowing for more used textbooks.”

“I want to be able to look back when it’s all over and know that we have made a difference with real student issues,” Adams said.