Government of the Student Body President Angela Groh delivered her third and final state of the student body address Wednesday night at the GSB meeting in the Memorial Union.

As her term draws to a close, Groh stressed the importance of continued improvements in communication and understanding between students and GSB.

“We will be working up to the very last day,” she said. “We want to be as honest as possible to the student body. I wanted to make sure I was reporting back to the student body.”

Groh spoke about evaluating her “platform promises,” and the GSB executive branch’s success in meeting the points laid out while campaigning with GSB Vice President Christopher Deal a year ago.

Groh said she is presenting a copy of her platform promises to students. It will be available on the GSB Web site.

Henry Alliger, Groh’s opponent in last year’s election and candidate for student body president in this year’s upcoming election, said she has worked hard to meet her goals, but has not been entirely successful.

“I would say there’s been a good attempt,” he said.

“However, I feel there are many results that have yet to be seen.”

GSB Chief of Staff Emily Jensen – and Alliger’s opponent in the general election – said Groh has not only accomplished her goals, but has also been more successful than what others expected of her.

“I think we have not only achieved the goals we set out, but have gone above and beyond,” she said.

Groh also laid out three important issues – scant state allocations, dropping enrollment and Iowa State’s budget model.

Groh said GSB will have to aggressively confront these issues, which are in the best issues of ISU students.

“I am really deeply troubled by the fact that there is really a lack of commitment on the part of the Legislature and the governor,” Groh said.

“We have been constantly aware of the budget-model process.”

Groh said her tenure as president has mostly been about one thing.

“It all comes back to one central theme,” she said.

“And that really is that as the student government it is our responsibility to proactively look into and go after these issues, so that we’re representing students’ interests.”