Charlie Curci (’27) and Farrell Donnelly (’27) have been planning their Student Government Association (SGA) presidential platform since their freshman year. Now as seniors, after a tumultuous election season, they’re serving as the SGA president and vice president respectively.
We had the opportunity to sit down with them earlier this month and discuss their plans for the school year and goals for defining their SGA administration.
Asked about some of the challenges facing the student body, both Curci and Donnelly talked about wanting to build a sense of school identity, focusing on campus spirit and culture.
Curci presented one of his goals as being “connecting and looping on the backend into one larger culture,” discussing the issue with retaining students due to disenfranchisement and a lack of belonging on campus.
A new change for the 2026-2027 school year is the shift away from SGA-led events (with the exception of Lip Sync) towards Rollins Entertainment Programs (REP) events while still growing the image of SGA on campus—Curci and Donnelly specifically touched on developing a connection between SGA and Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) on campus.
Donnelly is hoping to build SGA’s presence on campus through her Senate in the Wild campaign. She described it by saying, “The hope is that this is another piece that can bridge student government and the student body.” This would take place in a high traffic area, like on Mills, and would allow for an “anonymous sense of how the student body is feeling.”
Curci touched on how their plans to redesign the legislative process, where instead of senators presenting two pieces of legislation a year, they would transition to a project-based model where students select a project and work through it for a semester or a year; with Donnelly saying, “we were not getting the most impactful or serious pieces of legislation. Be passionate about something and maybe we could get funding for it.”
As seniors, both Curci and Donnelly find themselves in a unique position with the wealth of experience acquired over their last three years being on SGA. They are not only representatives for the student body, but still students themselves, and so while they’re actively looking towards the future, they’re still grounded in the work that they are doing—influencing the next generation of students, or possibly, a future SGA president.
As Curci said, “we’re doing the work for the next generation.”
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