{"id":83127,"date":"2019-03-25T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=83127"},"modified":"2019-04-02T11:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:03:49","slug":"fireside-chat-march-25-2019-sga-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/03\/fireside-chat-march-25-2019-sga-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; March 25, 2019 &#8211; SGA Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge to talk about the Student Government Association elections is Charlie King, SGA President.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4IzZAK4lv30?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Student Government Association is holding its annual elections this week. Here are some numbers on the SGA.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Six positions are up for election, including president, vice president, and chief justice.<\/li>\n<li>The SGA cabinet is comprised of 15 members, of which 6 are elected and 9 are appointed.<\/li>\n<li>There are 20 senate members, representing all aspects of student life.<\/li>\n<li>Voting will take place throughout the day March 25-27 at the H.L. Nowell Student Union.<\/li>\n<li>48 years ago, President LaForge was elected SGA President in a hotly contested race that featured a one-vote victory in a primary election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other news on campus, the sixth annual Winning the Race conference begins today. Check out the website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/winning-the-race\">www.deltastate.edu\/winning-the-race<\/a>, for the full line up of speakers and programs.<\/p>\n<p>In athletic news, baseball will host Southern Arkansas on Wednesday at 5 PM. And, baseball and softball will host the University of Alabama-Huntsville on Saturday and Sunday this week. For game times, please visit gostatesmen.com.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our news, events and activities, please visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge to talk about the Student Government Association elections is Charlie King, SGA President. The Student Government Association is holding its annual elections this week. Here are some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83271,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83127\/revisions\/83271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}