The SGA held its first meeting of the semester on Jan. 23, discussing concerns around campus. 

The meeting opened with guest speaker Angie Reay, who discussed the new healthcare system MSU is partnering with: TimelyCare. TimelyCare has two medical options: MedicalNow and Scheduled Medical, as well as TalkNow for counselling. 

“Within five minutes you can be talking to a physician. Cold, flu, allergies, strep, COVID, any of those kinds of things that you want to talk to somebody, those kind of acute illnesses that you would go to a doctor for,” Reay said. 

Reay emphasized that TimelyCare’s scheduling system will allow students to choose doctors based on gender and language preference. 

TimelyCare works with higher education, and there will be a peer community section of the app where students from different universities can interact with each other.

Senators’ concerns ranged from on-campus food to transportation. One was that the Mesquite Dining Hall stops putting food out too early, another was the inconsistent hours of the Legacy Marketplace, which, in combination with the Dining Hall’s food timing, makes it difficult for student athletes and students who work to eat on campus. 

Another concern of the senators was that there is not a bus stop for the Mustang Shuttle at the Park Place Apartments, making it difficult for students who live there to get to campus without a vehicle. 

The SGA will also restructure how legislative groups are formed. Rather than assigning organizations to groups to create legislation, President Zetta Cannedy announced organizations need to form their own. 

“I think we will have more legislation, I think that they’re probably going to be pretty quick about writing thing that they’re passionate about,” Cannedy said, adding, “And I also think that we’re going to see some more aggressive topics. It’s not going to be things that are new, it’s going to be thing that need to be fixed on our campus.”