University students have officially elected biological engineering junior Stewart Lockett as the new LSU Student Government president, and mass communication junior Rachel Campbell as vice president.
The duo ran unopposed using the motto “Together We Can.” They plan on using this philosophy of unity to bring both SG and the student body together during their term of service.
“We want to bring everyone together in one unit,” Lockett said. “We want senate to work together, we want [the] executive [branch] to work together, [and] we want the judicial branch to work together to increase interactions with the student body. That’s why our name was ‘Together We Can.’”
The president-elect talked on his reasons for taking on the responsibility of representing the student body in 2018.
“Our main motivation was bringing a group of students that actually wanted to work together, work on a similar goal and actually make real effective change in the student body that you can see,” Lockett said. [We want to] focus on the entire student body and not just a small minority.”
Campbell added to Lockett’s statement, emphasizing the importance of making fellow students aware of who is representing them.
“If you ask a student on the street who the president of their student body is, they couldn’t answer that question,” Campbell said. “That was something that I saw as a flaw in SG. I think that students should know who their resources are and who is advocating for them. We’re not superiors to our classmates. We want to be accessible to them.”
Lockett previously served in the SG student senate and the director of programming for the SG senior staff. Campbell served as communications director in the student senate, on the freshman leadership council and on the college council for the Manship School of Mass Communication.
Both Lockett and Campbell feel prepared to take on their new positions in SG. Both said that it was “an honor and privilege” to be elected to serve LSU’s student body.
