A changing of the NHS guard

Many people may think that it is just a title, but the Noblesville High School student body president is actually in charge of many of the school functions and the overall success of the events that take place at NHS.

This year’s student body president is senior Luke Hoffman. Students may think that anyone could obtain and maintain the position, but along with the title goes much hard work and diligence. He has been involved in student government his whole high school career, as a senator for three years, and this year he decided to take on the responsibility of student body president. The student body vice president is senior Jill Horsfield. She was in student government her freshman and junior years as a senator.

“The most enjoyable part of being the president for me is seeing plans go through and knowing that I took part in it, and being able to show my leadership skills,” Hoffman said. Jill has her own opinion on what makes the year successful and enjoyable to her. “I like homecoming, I like the floats, the mini olympics, the game, it gets the whole school involved,” Horsfield said.

They ran together on the platform of change over the way things were run in student government last year.

“My honest opinion of last year is that the senior leaders were all good people, but as a whole, they had trouble communicating with everyone, and because of this issue, everything ended up having issues,” Hoffman said. Horsfield was in agreement.

“The seniors last year did not have strong communication and organizational skills,” she said.

The freshmen student government sponsor, Autumn Elmore, said this, “It went well to work with the freshmen, because they were all excited and were prepared and wanting to help, but it made it hard to be involved because of communication issues.”

Both of these school politicians have new ideas that they would like to incorporate, and new ideas of how they believe this school year can be made great.

“I want to get the students of our school more involved in all of the school functions that we set up throughout the year,” Hoffman said.

The students of NHS also have opinions on the way the student government performs.

“I thought that the student government did well in planning the homecoming dance, so I think it would be fun to have small dances after football and basketball games,” sophomore Jennifer Reagin said. Another student had a different opinion about the homecoming festivities. “I thought that the homecoming parade was not as good last year because we could not throw candy,” sophomore Abby Alvey said.

“I love being in this type of leadership position, and I think that this year will be much more organized and less stressful, which will make it more exciting for students,” Hoffman and Horsfield said. Elmore has also noticed a difference so far this year. “I think that it will be much better this year. The people in student government this year are serious about helping out and making this year great. Luke emails me almost everyday to keep me up to date on what is happening at the main campus with student government. It is very helpful,” Elmore said. We will see if Hoffman, Horsfield, the class sponsors, and the rest of the government can live up to expectations and make this year fun, safe, and exciting for NHS.