Student Government Association elections will be held during Spring Fling week, March 26-30.

The seven paid positions of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, general counsel, activities liaison and legislative liaison will be voted on during Spring Fling. These positions pay minimum wage and require that the students work from 12 to 19 hours per week.

There are also 16 student senator positions and 16 commissioner-at-large positions available. Students in these positions are not paid and are voted in by the SGA. Senators are required to work five hours per week and serve on at least one committee, while commissioners-at-large are required to work two hours per week.

The candidates in this year’s SGA election were announced on March 20 at 4 p.m.

According to Osmond Param, SGA secretary, the most important quality in an SGA representative is “the will to represent students. It becomes part of their duties to represent the school.”

This is the second year that the voting will be held online through the Votenet program. Students can vote online any time from 12:01 midnight on March 26 to 11:59 p.m. on March 30.

There will also be laptop computers that people can vote from in the breezeway next to the Fireside Room.

Last year, the first time that voting was held online, 617 students or around six percent of BC’s student population voted, “double the number that voted the year before when we did not have online voting,” according to a press release from Dean of Students Don Turney.

Average voter turnouts for colleges are very low, around two percent. According to Rodolfo Correa, SGA vice president, this may be due in part because community colleges are commuter colleges, where students take the necessary classes required for them to transfer to a four-year university or go straight into their career, so student participation in campus events is typically lower.