Nick Rousseau is named new public relations officer
Kurt Oberreither
-News Editor-
Former Student Governance Council Representative at Large Nick Rousseau was made public relations officer at the Nov. 22 Student Governance Council (SGC) meeting.
The council voted on Nov. 8 to excuse former public relations officer Tim Potthoff’s absences. They voted four out of five absences were unexcused.
“Because we need somebody that can be there for the meetings and help out all the time, we decided to go with somebody else,” SGC President Mark Wilson said.
Potthoff had more than two unexcused absences. According to the SGC Constitution, if an officer misses more than two meetings, the officer is relieved of his duties.
Tim Potthoff could not be reached for comment.
According to Nov. 8 meeting minutes, Potthoff was contacted via email regarding his absences.
“I don’t think he had enough to do it and so he wasn’t able to take part as deeply as we needed an officer to take part,” Wilson said.
Rousseau has been involved in SGC since 2009. He said he thinks it is important that he promotes events going on within clubs. He said he will try his best to attend those events and document them with his camera.
“I think it’s a really good position for him because he loves taking pictures and helping promote the idea of student government,” Wilson said. “He likes to speak to people about it and he gets excited about it, which is what we need in a public relations officer. I think he’ll make a good addition to the officer team.”
In 2009, Rousseau was a club representative for the photo club and a representative at large in the 2009-2010 year. Rousseau is a Mass Communications major.
“The first time I was involved with SGC, I noticed we do have people to take pictures, but it seemed like everybody forgot. I have a camera, I will promote.”
Currently there are two representative at large positions open. Wilson said they will accept applications for the positions.
The public relations officer is responsible for maintaining the SGC bulletin board and online resources, to report to the president and to publicize SGC and club events.
“I worked my way up the ladder. I’m not a guy who’s afraid to look outside the box – I like to think.”
Nick Rousseau is a Montage staff photographer.
