Lamar’s Student Government Association held their officer elections for the 2025-’26 academic year. Students were able to vote online through Self Service Banner, April 14-15.
Ethan Ellis is re-elected SGA president, Alayij McDaniel is elected Vice President, Kathy Nguyen is elected Secretary-Treasurer, Anthony Barnes is elected Senior Class Senator, Anthony Oliver is elected Junior Class Senator and Briley O’Connor is elected Sophomore Class Senator.
McDaniel, Nguyen and O’Connor were elected following runoff elections that concluded April 21.
Ellis’ re-election marks the first time since the 2002-’03 academic year that an SGA president has won re-election. He said he plans to continue on what he built SGA into.
“This election means we can continue some of our ideas big ideas with student engagement, being more prepared in events and getting feedback from students of this year to see what we can implement,” he said. “It’s a testament of how much we’ve been able to highlight SGA. In the last elections, most positions weren’t contested, so having two to three people going for each position this year is enlightening.”
Ethan said he is most excited to start making extra resources available to students.
“I’ve already been getting to work,” he said. “We’re trying to implement a few things, like making textbooks more affordable for students. I’ve already been planning meetings with the provost so we can go over ways we can make this happen. Hopefully we can get that done before next year, but if not, in this next term we’ll be able to work on it some more.
“We’re trying to get more engaging activities and create traditions, as well as creating study areas for students. The library had a lot of areas for people to study, and with that being gone, it’s created a need for areas to study. We’re focused on hitting the mark on that one next semester.”
Ellis said he wants to expand the culture of SGA in this new term.
“We’re just trying to create an atmosphere where we have people informed about what we can do, what routes to go through, and just having them prepared for taking over in my absence,” he said. “We just want to expand what we’ve done this year, making it better, getting feedback, preparing, and just going all out for this year.”
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