The afternoon rain couldn’t stop Student Government members in Free Speech Alley from handing out a barrage of free scantrons and ponchos at Straight Talk with Student Government on Wednesday.In the past, students would ask SG members about pressing University issues at Straight Talk. Although SG members did answer questions from students throughout the two-hour event, SG members spent more time attempting to engage the students and ask them what they see as the important issues, said SG Vice President Martina Scheuermann.Hayes Barber, chemical engineering junior, asked Scheuermann about the likelihood of getting indie rock band MGMT to perform at Groovin’ on the Grounds.”I have been to Groovin’, and it is usually pretty good,” Barber said. “But [MGMT] is kind of a genre we haven’t seen. It tends to be either rap, country or rock. We haven’t seen a lot of indie stuff, so it would be really fun for them to come because they are a college-centric band anyways.”Barber said Scheuermann explained the process involved with getting a particular artist to come the University.”I know it’s a complicated process,” Barber said. “They said they are interested and looking into it, but they want to do a survey and see what everyone is interested in.”Other students were concerned about issues with biking on campus.”I have noticed we have had our bike racks taken away in front of the library,” said Joshua Blaylock, French junior. “It’s really difficult to find parking in the Quad. I end up usually parking on poles and stuff. I was just wondering if we were going to get those [racks] back or what.”Blaylock said members of SG were not able to directly answer his question regarding the bike racks, but told him SG is working to promote bicycle awareness on campus through the SG Web site.SG members also passed out free scantrons and bluebooks along with Tiger Trails trail mix — a small bag of trail mix used to promote the new bus system on campus.”They see the Tiger Trails trail mix and students will come up and ask different questions about the buses like why the routes have changed and what are some things that we plan on improving,” said SG President Stuart Watkins. “A lot of students don’t know we are getting the brand-new buses after the beginning of the year. We are not staying with the white buses we have now. We are going to have larger buses with doors on the back.” SG also gave away rain ponchos from their surplus of more than 27,000 ponchos purchased by the Robertson-Bates administration, Scheuermann said. The ponchos were purchased last year as a part of a sponsorship agreement, said former SG president Colorado Robertson.————Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]