Student Senate President Greg Doucette didn’t run with platform promisesof writing record amounts of government documents.

But, according to some, his Senate may be headed in that direction.

Doucette, on the other hand, disagreed.

“We’ve gotten a lot done in a short amount of time,” he said. “There’sjust so much to do.”

Student Senator Matt Potter said he thinks Doucette has done a good joblooking at the big picture and not micromanaging but that he could makesome improvements.

“There’s been a lot of government bills that deal with Senate and thegovernment functioning rather than actual action,” Potter said.

Potter said there has been a lot of legislation in the Senate about theAssociation of Student Governments and while that’s important, not manystudents care about it.

Doucette ran for Student Senate President after the administrationdisqualified James Hankins, the candidate Doucette was supporting.

His three campaign promises included restoring traditions, reformingStudent Government and reducing education costs.

Doucette’s platform stated that one part of restoring traditions would beto expand Homecoming funding for Pack Howl.

“With Homecoming [funding], that’s strictly a Senate thing,” Doucette said.

Legislation to increase Homecoming’s funding for next year, Doucette said,passed committee but has not yet been finalized.

“The way our budget cycle works, it wasn’t going to [take effect] thisyear,” he said.

The other traditions Doucette said he wanted to restore were havingalcohol at the Design School Halloween Bash and at Senior Class Councilevents.

But, according to Doucette, after meeting with Vice Chancellor for StudentAffairs Tom Stafford at the beginning of the year, it did not seem likelythat the Design School Bash would regain the privilege unless the bash wasmade exclusive only to the Design School students and faculty.

He said he was more optimistic about the Senior Class Council events butthat conditions would have to be met before it could be approved.

The last part of restoring traditions that Doucette wanted to bring backwas extending tailgating hours, which he said Stafford also opposeddiscussing until the tailgating environment improved.

Potter said traditions are an important part of this campus.

“As far as traditions go, I think Greg has made a lot of progress,” he said.

He did say, however, that he believes more can be done with trying toextend tailgating hours.

“Greg hasn’t been hands-on with it, but he has delegated it to the rightpeople,” he said. “There hasn’t been anything solid yet.”

Cameron Shore, a sophomore in architecture, said he doesn’t know theSenate president though he would expect him to make his presence known,but that one of the issues he would hope the president would address iscampus activities and involvement.

“More things need to happen on campus in general,” Shore said. “The campusis not very involved.”

The second platform on Doucette’s list, reforming Student Government,included reforming the Constitution, the bureaucracy and the agenda.

Doucette said legislation was passed about reforming the bureaucracy,which made Public Affairs a permanent Senate committee with a specificagenda and creating a committee on Leadership Development.

Reforming the agenda included allowing non-SG students to speak at Senatemeetings. Though this has been in place all semester, Doucette said onlyone student who ran for Senate took advantage of this.

Shore said if he knew what the Senate was talking about and it was animportant issue to him, he would “definitely consider going.”

As for reducing education costs, Doucette’s platform stated that he wantedto reduce fee increases and created a fee referendum for students to voicetheir opinions on fee increases.

Though fees still increased the full cap of 6.5 percent, Doucette saidhaving student input was important. About three percent of students voted,which exceeded Doucette’s expectations.

Doucette’s platform also advocated for a four-year guaranteed tuition ratefor students and though Doucette said the only advocacy the Senate hasdone this year so far is talk to politicians about it, he is not toooptimistic on the result.

“The legislature won’t touch it with a 10-foot pole … Each constituencyhas its own set of concerns,” he said.