Student Activities Council Wins National Award

by Daniella Choynowski,
Staff Writer

Seton Hill University's (SHU) Student Body Activity Council (SAC) was recently awarded the Boyd Jones award from the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA) for programming board of the year.

`The award recognizes the best all around programming board efforts during the year,’ said Sean Garrity, a senior and co-executive for SAC.

Criteria includes quality and success of the events, programming appropriate activities for students, resource management, association involvement, and volunteerism.

The award was voted on by `the agencies and performers that we work with. They are the ones that nominated us,’ said Tom Donovan, Graduate Assistant for the Office of Activities and Commuter Life.

SAC found out that they were in the top four in November of the past year. At a national conference in Atlanta in March, SHU's SAC recieved the award.

`I'm very excited. I came in my freshman year and we were just starting to get the organization up and going. To see it go this far in the few years that the organization has been around has been awesome. To get nationally recognized is a really good feeling,’ said Donovan.

`Being such a small school, we put so much extra work into the activities that we plan. We're able to put much more of a personal touch into the things we do,’ said Lindy Repp, a senior. `It comes through to the acts, and I think that they appreciate that a lot more than when they go to bigger schools. We've done a lot of hard work to get to this point.’

`There will be a lot of really cool things for everybody to do behind DeChantal,’ said Repp.

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