Atlas President Jack Hesser gave his first speech as president of the Student Government Association on April 15 in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. Hesser, a microbiology and botany major, compared his executive board to the Bacteriophage T4 virus because of the way the members work together. DN PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY
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SGA spearheads campus events, initiatives

The Executive Branch for the Student Government Association, a student-run organization that serves as the voice of Ball State students by advocating student concerns to faculty, administration and the community, as well as to other students, had their first official meeting of the school year and discussed what was accomplished over the summer.




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Get to know Atlas: Ball State's 2015 SGA executive slate

Jack Hesser, president When he was four years old, the president of the Student Government Association made a contract with himself stating that after college, he would move to Los Angeles to pursue acting. And 17 years later, Jack Hesser, a senior microbiology and botany major, plans to keep that promise. “I’m going to do it because I don’t want four-year-old Jack to be disappointed in me.


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NFA bringing National Tournament back to Ball State after pulling event

The National Forensics Association has decided to host its National Tournament at Ball State after pulling the event from campus when state legislators passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act last March. The 2016 event will bring around 1,200 students and faculty members from across the country to campus and rake in anywhere between $1 and $2 million for the Muncie community, Director of Individual Events, Mary Moore, said.