In a packed Beaird Lounge on Monday afternoon, Ernest Ezeugo officially became the new student body president taking the oath of office next to his running mate Madeline Grunewald.
"I was very nervous but you know it's one of those things where I'm glad it's over and obviously when my speech was done I finally got inaugurated. I feel like a president now," Ezeugo said.
Ezeugo and Grunewald are replacing Joe Sangirardi and Rainey Sewell, who passed several important pieces of legislation this past year. One of the most notorious being raising the minimum GPA for students holding leadership positions from a 2.5 to a 3.0 at OU. Ezeugo admitted during his speech that he has some big shoes to fill, but looks forward to the challenge.
"Our aim obviously is to make great things happen for as many people as possible but as long as we are influencing one person or positively impacting one person we are doing our job," Ezeugo said.
It was a little over two weeks ago that Ernest and Madeline defeated their opponents with ease winning 61% of the student vote according to the OU Daily. Focus for them now shifts on fighting the increasing costs of higher education.
"I am also ready to get everything smoothed out, make our progress on increasing costs of higher education," Ezeugo said.
For more information on SGA or Ernest and Madeline please visit www.uosa.ou.edu. Student Congress meetings are open to the public at 7 p.m. on Tuesday nights.
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