Student Body President Bobby Mills said he has spent a lot of time talking this semester.

Mills, a senior in political science and economics, has checked off few promises of his four-page platform but is still talking to people about the rest, he said.

According to Mills, some of the promises he has carried out this semester include working with fellow student organizations to do community service; advocating for tax-free textbooks in the summer; and establishing a project senator emeritus John Mickey worked on last year — implementing debit and credit cards on campus in dining halls.

“We’ve been focusing more on debit and credit cards,” Mills said of the reason other platforms have not yet been achieved.

Although one of Mills’ platform goals was to work with the state legislature and the University to allow students to use their All-Campus cards at local businesses, he has not been advancing that initiative.

“Eventually, we will probably move to a system where we don’t need our all-campus cards,” he said. “That’s definitely something that’s been in the talks.”

According to Amy Anselm, a senior in English, she would be hesitant to completely revert to that, especially with freshmen.

“All-Campus cards ease freshmen into the idea [of college],” Anselm said.

Another promise Mills gave in his platform was that instructors would be required to inform students about the location of free printing sites on campus.

“We have not made progress on that,” he said. “We’re looking into it.”

Though Mills had previously proposed a sustainability student fee, he said he did not feel that campaign promise was contradictory to his fee proposal.

“I don’t think people will print just to print,” he said.

Another promise Mills said he has been working on is extending dining hall hours. He also said the University would offer a complementary breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays in his platform.

The extension of dining hall hours will not take effect until next fall, according to Mills, because University Dining still needs to figure out how much it would cost to extend the hours and how the employees who use public transportation will get home after 9 p.m.

According to Mills, the complementary breakfast, which has not yet been approved, would be less costly than the extension.

“The workers are already there, but they don’t have it open,” he said.

Other platform promises Mills has talked about but has not yet accomplished include creating an alternative to the Werewolf routes, offering retakes for upperclassmen, abolishing 8 a.m. exams and establishing N.C. State’s students’ rights to rush the field at big football games.

One promise Mills stated in his platform was increasing the number of parking spaces around the gym area at night.

According to Mills, “talks” have taken place about it but the Transportation Department has been hesitant to change parking permit restrictions at night to increase spaces.

“With the new gym addition, that will be very important and vital,” Mills said.

Anselm said she wants the student body president to push for student issues no matter the difficulty.

“I want him to do the impossible. I want him to serve the needs for the students that are here today,” she said.

Mills also promised the student body last spring that he would oversee the creation of a disk golf course on Centennial Campus and a full menu restaurant. Although this has not happened, Mills said, once again, that there have been talks about it.

“We’ve been talking with [University Architect] Mike Harwood,” he said. “He talked very favorably of a disk golf course because of the type of land.”

Although Mills also said he would hold office hours in various locations on campus like Talley Student Center and D.H. Hill Library, he said he has not had set hours nor has he felt the need to do so.

“I’ve been there enough … I’ll talk to people,” he said.

Anselm said she wants the student body president to be highly visible and stand for NCSU.

“I want him to absolutely be the embodiment of N.C. State,” she said. “I feel like he’s visible on campus when an important issue comes around … just around the University though.”

Mills also promised to increase the number of student tickets but said he is less optimistic of that happening.

The Athletics Department said it would not likely increase student tickets even if it receives the full student fee it was requesting. Mills said because it did not receive the full increase, it is now even less likely for that to happen.

“It’ll definitely be difficult,” Mills said.

Although multiple attempts were made to reach several student senators, they either did not return calls for comment or declined to comment.