How do you measure a year’s success? When you lead a student organization, the most elementary way is to look at how well you retained the talented and attracted more who want to be part of something great.

So few students are interested in working with the SGA that only one senate race will be a contest, and three colleges will sit vacant even after the voting has ended.

It comes as no surprise that five senators have resigned over the last year, and two were brought up impeachment charges. That means almost a third of the 22-seat senate called it quits.

The SGA is in disarray, with it taking the senate close to the midnight hour to shoot down game room renovations and create an internship coordinator position that few in the academic ranks will ever support.

The Freshman Council, which has traditionally represented the brightest among our first year students, only recently put forth their first event of the year. We hope that they have seen the ills of the organization while laboring away at menial office hours and will make an effort to correct them.

Are you better off than you were one year ago? Or, perhaps the better question is what has your student government done for you lately?

This newspaper endorses Erin Chambers for President. We believe that a Chambers administration will get back down to business for the student body, and offer leadership instead of lip service.

While we cannot be certain what Chambers will do to fix this problem, we are in agreement that Orr has had all the time he and his party needed.

It is time for change.