Senior balances campus and chapter leadership
Senior balances campus and chapter leadership
Logan Fletcher, North Dakota ’13, serves as the student body president at the University of North Dakota, representing over 15,000 students and overseeing a budget of over a half million dollars. He is a 2012 Ruck Scholar, past vice president of communication, past BMS chair, and is now the Phi challenge coordinator and senior marshal. Fletcher proves that you can be involved on your campus and in your chapter.
Sound Bite: When did you realize you wanted to be student body president and what inspired you to run?
Logan Fletcher: When I was a freshman, I met the student body president in my residence hall. I set a goal to be elected my senior year early on. My brothers and the Greek community are really what motivated me throughout the campaign and election, though. It was an incredibly stressful six weeks, but when I came home to the chapter house at night, I had a house full of guys encouraging me to keep going.
SB: What are the challenges of being heavily involved in two organizations?
LF: Sometimes I have to make a choice between spending a Friday night at the chapter or attending a conference or meeting out of town. But I've never felt that I can't be involved in both. We mostly make our own schedules in Student Government, so if a SigEp event is my priority, it's rare that I can't make it work.
SB: How does your role on your campus help your chapter?
LF: If nothing else, I try to use Student Government as a way to recruit new members to SigEp and vice versa. A number of brothers are involved in student government besides me. I know I can hire or appoint them to positions, and we will share the same values and drive to succeed. Two other brothers have served on my executive team. One is a student senator representing Greek students, two are on our presidential finance committee, and two have represented UND students to the North Dakota Student Association. We've taken on these roles together to make Sigma Phi Epsilon a name on campus that's respected by students, staff, faculty, and administration alike.
