Student Activities Council Wins National Award

eton 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.

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.

Spring Thing officially ends on April 27 with a
movie on the lawn at 9 p.m.