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In general I view SGA as total BS. At UT they mostly pass resolutions on this and that. The major things they've done since I've been at UT that seem the most notable to me is levy several fees to pay for student projects. They've raised money to build statues of Cesar Chavez and Barbara Jordan on campus this way, and they've done the same to build a new student activities center (which I'm really skeptical if we actually need).
At W&L the EC and SJC were empowered to rule on matters relating to the Honor System and student misconduct (respectively), including the ability to suspend and expel students, so those were pretty serious duties. They also allocated money to student orgs. Those basically seemed like the two most notable things they did.
The Graduate student government at UT gives us free pizza for grad student appreciation week. And free beer once a month or so. Quite frankly I'd rather have free beer than a Student Activities Center. LOL.
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