The road was sometimes rocky, but the Student Association can look back at the school year and breathe a sigh of relief.

SA President Huda Scheidelman said this year’s top three accomplishments were advances in academic grievance forms, publishing teacher evaluations and conducting the handicapped accessibility audit.

The Academic Affairs Committee made “enormous strides” by “drawing a link between the students’ concerns and the faculty’s,” Scheidelman said.

The plan to publish teacher evaluations is in a trial stage, but instructors can be voluntarily evaluated next fall.

The SA conducted a handicapped accessibility audit this year and the results should be reviewed by September, Scheidelman said.

SA Treasurer Bruce Williams gave the SA an overall grade of a “B,” explaining some things detracted from positive aspects.

Students might not see a student activity fee increase for the next two years because of a surplus in this year’s budget, Williams said.

Other achievments include renewed efforts to find a sculptor for the Martin Luther King Statue, a student/faculty liaison, installing campus security phones, revival of the Student Committee on Financial Aid and a Holmes Student Center ban of polystyrene, Scheidelman said.

The SA faced some tough decisions this year. “I think some of the controversial concerns helped to raise student awareness,” Scheidelman said.

Louis Farrakhan’s lecture, funded by $4,000 in SA money, was “an excellent opportunity for students to hear his message” whether they agreed with or disputed him, she said.

The senate’s decision not to support a ban of the Reserve Officers Training Corp is “indicative of the homophobic society we’re in and a trend toward a more conservative society,” Scheidelman said. Twenty years ago, a vote allowing discrimination would have been “shocking,” she said.

Some of the SA’s dark spots this year were the lack of control of the SA Art Collection, the attempt to impeach Scheidelman and poor public relations.

“The whole problem with the art collection is that we didn’t have control over it,” Scheidelman said. The SA and the Campus Activities Board have wrestled over the collection during this semester. “That hasn’t come to an end.”

Scheidelman said the attempt to impeach her “was really quite silly. That definitely hurt the SA’s credibility.”

But Scheidelman’s biggest complaint is that the SA’s overburdened public relations department did not get enough information out to the students.

Overall, Scheidelman said the SA was “much more productive than in past years.”