Senior Mike Kaatz, one of three candidates for Student Government Association president, is a man on a mission. His goal, he said, is to return SGA to order and, most importantly, give a renewed voice to the SHSU student community.Kaatz’s experience with SGA stretches back to 1994 when he became involved as a sophomore transfer student. Though he later left school for a five-year period, he returned to SHSU and to SGA with renewed focus. Kaatz, a business management major, said his No. 1 priority if elected would be the students.”Students should vote for me because I’m going to voice their voice instead of my own. I’m not going to fight my fights; I’m going to fight theirs,” Kaatz said. “I’m going to be here for them because I have a love and sincere affection for this university.” Kaatz said he is confident he has the experience and skills to reach a student body often considered apathetic and uninterested in university issues.”We need to strengthen our student body. I want everyone to know that SGA is here for them; I want them to know what SGA is,” he said. “Our student body has been labeled as apathetic, but they’re not; it’s that they don’t have a leader.”The student body can grow, it can become one, and it can reach a common goal,” he said. “That’s what I want to do. Our students aren’t apathetic when they have a leader, and they have a cause they fight for it. That’s what we need, we need someone to fight for the students.”Kaatz also hopes while giving students a louder voice he can return structure to SGA, which has been accused of bending and even breaking rules laid out in the SGA Constitution.”I think I can bring some continuity. I think SGA needs to have a backbone. We need to go in a certain direction and not branch off on tangents,” he said. “We need to unify the student body so things like what happened this year with the Student Service fees, a situation where the students did not feel they were represented, do not happen again.”Although the majority of SGA senators approved the $251 fee increase, Kaatz said when the time came he voted how he felt most students would.”In my opinion it (the fee increase) needed to be done, but my students that I represent said ‘no.'” he said. “So that is how I voted because that is what I was appointed to do, to represent the student body, not my own feelings.”Kaatz said two of his goals as president will be to make SGA meetings more accessible to students and to increase membership.”I think we need to move SGA meetings to the afternoon, and with a constitutional amendment, we can do that,” he said. “Meetings could be in the afternoon in the LSC when students are still on campus and can become involved.”I would like to see our meetings be 100 plus. Back in 1994, when I started, we had 75 to 80 students per meeting. Now we have 30 students at a good meeting, and I think that’s ridiculous,” he said. “I want to get out there and personally ask people to join.”Kaatz said if elected he hopes to restore SGA’s image to one of greater respect.”This organization has had a lot of shadow cast over it, and I’m tired of that,” he said. “I’m ready to move the clouds out of the way and pull the sun out to show a bright future.”