With the consolidation of colleges, some majors have found a new home in a new college. And with Mardi Gras elections just around the corner, nominees and hopeful candidates may find it frustrating to figure the new organization out.

“The new system may possibly result in elections becoming more competitive. Senators, who were formerly in a smaller college, are now competing with a larger amount of students,” said Macey Scott, a kinesiology major.

The Mardi Gras court will be shortened this year by four – two women and two men.

Scott finds running for elections against larger programs, such as pharmacy, a little intimidating.

“However, this change certainly forces candidates to be more unique and work harder to become elected. Personally, I always plan on being a member of SGA if I continue to be re-elected,” Scott said.

But will other campus elections be affected by the consolidation?

“The new college set-up will not affect SGA elections,” Jana Robinson, senior history major and president of the SGA, said.

According to Laura Knotts, SGA advisor, the number of senators is based on the enrollment size of each college.

However, the nature of elections will be affected. Candidates will run against students they were not running against last year, but the end result will be a consistent size of senators.

“Our strategies for capturing the attention of an increasingly wider audience will change, but the overall representation SGA has of ULM will not,” Scott said.