Running from office to office, making phone calls, interviewing applicants and directing Government of the Student Body executive cabinet meetings are all part of a busy day for GSB Chief of Staff Kari Hoefer.

It’s work she and other GSB officials say goes largely unrecognized by students and faculty on campus.

“Nobody really knows who I am,” says Hoefer, sophomore in art and design. “I think that’s true because I am in an appointed position, so I don’t work with one certain constituency.”

She says her job is mainly to organize the cabinet and work “behind the scenes” in planning GSB events.

“I think the chief of staff position is very time consuming, as well as very unrecognized,” says GSB President Mike Banasiak. “It’s an extremely critical component of GSB, and she deserves people to know what she does for this organization and what it would be lacking without her.”

With a lists of tasks to get done, responsibilities to her sorority and a GSB president to keep in line, Hoefer starts another day of work.

— Tom Barton