Welcome back to the Classes of 2010, 2011, and 2012, and a very special welcome to the incoming Class of 2013! The 2009-2010 year is shaping up to be another great one, and it is an honor to serve as your SA President and Vice President at such an exciting time for our University.

We in the SA have been hard at work to bring you exciting changes. As you’ll notice, the Hive website has been updated to include three websites in one: the Students’ Association Government site, the Campus Club Connection site and the Student Organization Calendar site. These changes are a part of our plan to improve communication between student government and the student body. As an extension of our goal to promote communication, we hope you will attend our Fireside Chats this year to learn what the SA is doing and to give your feedback.  We further hope that you will read the Rocky's Report email, digest of everything SA delivered to your inbox each month.

In other news, we are excited to announce that we now have 234 great clubs on campus. Whether you are involved in ten clubs or you have never been involved before, we encourage you to attend the Activities Fair in September to learn all about what our clubs have to offer.

This year, we will also have a new Varsity sports team, as Women’s Crew has switched from Club to Varsity. Hillside Cafe will feature a new Panini station to provide healthy and delicious meals in a convenient location. Thanks to the hard work of the SA Senate, Douglass Dining Center will now feature full UR Wireless, so you can browse the web during lunch or study in Douglass when Gleason gets too crowded.

CAB and UR Concerts are planning a great Yellowjacket Weekend that will feature comedian Seth Meyers from SNL and the band Enter the Haggis. The fall speaker will be the founder of Post-Secret, Frank Warren. The SA is proud to continue some of our core services this year, such as offering free newspapers around campus through the Collegiate Readership Program, free DVD rentals at the Multimedia Center’s DVD Library and our free bicycle rental program, City Cycles. We are thrilled to continue and expand the Fill Fauver program and hope you take advantage of our new Experience Eastman program. All of the renovations to the Eastman Theater make this a particularly exciting year to kick off this program.

The Students’ Association has always worked hard to provide quality life for students and to enhance the campus experience. If you ever have an idea, comment, complaint, or want to get involved in student government, please email: sapres@mail.rochester.edu. Enjoy the new website!

Meliora,

Eric & Brittany