Newly elected officers of the Hillsdale College Student Federation hope to direct their attention to other student needs beyond club funding this spring. 

Junior Liam Giles will serve as president, sophomore Charlie Birt as vice president, junior Emma De Nooy as treasurer, and sophomore Garry Danzer as secretary. 

Giles, a history major and mathematics minor from Illinois, said he hopes to promote awareness of student access to the federation and their funds.”  

“One thing which I would like to try to get started is to do a meet and greet with all the Student Fed representatives, because a lot of people don’t really know about the federation,” Giles said. 

He said he also hopes to promote self-governance around campus so that clubs can be more self-sufficient while knowing that they can come to Student Fed for assistance. 

Besides serving on Student Fed, Giles is the treasurer for Phi Mu Alpha and a member of the Catholic Society outreach board. 

Birt is a politics and financial management major from Kansas. As vice president, he said he would like to see Student Fed expand its role in helping coordinate events by serving as a liaison between students and the administration. 

He said he would also like Student Fed to determine the status of club sports. 

“I honestly see student club sports as being underfunded a good bit of the time,” Birt said. “I think that’s an area that we can hopefully work with the administration to clarify and see where we might be able to help.” 

Besides his work on Student Fed, Birt is a Winston Churchill fellow, the treasurer of Alpha Tau Omega, and the president of College Republicans.

Danzer is a history major from Kentucky and the brotherhood chair and vice recruitment chair of Delta Tau Delta. 

Danzer said he would like to see Student Fed direct more funding toward campus improvement, especially since it typically gets fewer funding proposals in the spring. 

“I would love to see more initiatives as far as campus improvements go that focus on student health,” Danzer said.  

De Nooy is a rhetoric and public address major from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Besides serving in the Student Federation, De Nooy is involved in Tower Dancers and serves as the treasurer of the C.S. Lewis Reading Club. 

As treasurer, De Nooy said she hopes to keep everything efficient and streamlined. She said she is also looking forward to helping clubs with their funding requests. 

“I help clubs review their requests before they go to the meeting,” De Nooy said. “I’m looking forward to that and being able to help them as best as I can and give them the best chance at getting the events and requests that they want funded.”

Beyond allocating funds and granting club status, De Nooy said she hopes the students on the federation represent the student body well. 

Hillsdale’s honor code says that a student “rises to self-government” through education. 

“I think the Student Federation is a really good example of that,” De Nooy said.