Morgan Toms, the sole can­di­date for Student Government President, has been elected as Student Government President-Elect after receiv­ing 203 out of 253 votes.

Toms, a junior in the busi­ness administration/legal stud­ies pro­gram, has many goals for the cam­pus and com­mu­nity. Among those goals include mak­ing Student Government more avail­able to RSOs (Registered Student Organizations) and putting an empha­sis on underclassmen.

“I’m super excited to have this oppor­tu­nity and an impact on the cam­pus and the com­mu­nity,” said Toms of being elected.

Toms feels under­class­men are very impor­tant to the uni­ver­sity as they will be around here the longest and have poten­tial to become lead­ers, Toms said in her Mar. 24 presentation.

Currently, Toms is focused on get­ting next year’s cab­i­net for Student Government set up. She said she will present her cab­i­net before the final adjourn­ment of the year.

“There’s peo­ple I want to sit down with and get advice from,” she said in regards to choos­ing her cab­i­net members.

Toms added, “It’s hard because there’s so many excel­lent peo­ple from Student Government.”

Helping events to become more acces­si­ble to stu­dents is also a goal of Toms and she is going to keep an open con­nec­tion with DPS (Department of Public Safety) and will con­tinue work­ing with Jerry Scoby, vice pres­i­dent of admin­is­tra­tion and finance of the Pedestrian Safety Task Force.

As for the up-and-coming BIG Event, Toms said she would imple­ment the same amount of excite­ment and pas­sion that cur­rent Student Government pres­i­dent and founder Claire Gould has.

Toms will imple­ment a men­tor pro­gram, which will help make new mem­bers to Student Government feel wel­come and she plans to get more stu­dents engaged in var­i­ous cam­pus activities.

Additionally, Toms is plan­ning on “bridg­ing the gap” between the Ferris cam­pus and the Big Rapids com­mu­nity. She will make plans to form a stu­dent com­mit­tee for the city.

With the on-going prob­lems of park­ing issues, Toms is going to take action by com­mu­ni­cat­ing with DPS and wel­com­ing inno­v­a­tive, cre­ative ideas to find a solu­tion to the problem.