Student Senate members reached out for feedback as well as to promote university services by talking face-to-face with students around campus.

To directly keep in contact with the students, the senate members set up tables periodically to either promote an organization or to just be face for Student Senate.

On Monday in the Library Quad, the senate members gave out 300 Airheads with leaflets to remind students to study for midterms as well as touch base with students.

Student Senate Speaker Jesse Green said using outreach tables is important to him because it allows them to give out information on services and organizations like Panther Shuttle and to acquire opinions from students through comment cards.

“Our goal is to interact with students as much as possible,” Green said. “I definitely don’t know everything, but I try at least to help.”

Green said they also promote student government positions operating the outreach tables.

Green said he compelled some students to apply for senate member positions early in the year with the senate outreach table, which are normally in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union in the front of the food court or in the Library Quad.

“We want to get different places,” Green said.

They plan on setting up tables under the bridge between Coleman Hall and Lumpkin Hall as well as setting up near the Doudna Steps for future outreach tables.

Normally, two or three senate members hang out around the table talking to students who pass by.

“It is enough so that it is not intimidating to students,” Green said.

He said he hopes to use outreach tables more frequently having an outreach table operated weekly.

This semester the senate has set up four table days including informing students of the importance studying.

The senate members will have a table set up at 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Oct. 15 and Oct. 16.

Darnell Tyms, the student vice president for student affairs, said they will be promoting awareness for Student Organization Cabinet as well as the importance of attending the committee meetings.

Tyms said some registered student organizations have not updated their information, so contacting about SOC meetings have been hard.

“I am pretty sure presidents from last year and the year before were getting the emails and not the new ones,” Tyms said.

While some senate members are liaisons for some RSOs for SOC, there is still a large majority of RSOs not being represented at the meetings.

“We are trying to get RSO liaisons,” Tyms said.

Surveys will also be handed out to students to find out who is interested in Panther Nation, which is student cheer group who will be going to games to show support.

Reggie Thedford, the student affairs committee chair who is planning Panther Nation, said he wanted a big student spirit section to cheer on Panther Athletics.

“No one really participates in the student section at football games,” Thedford said.

Thedford said the outreach tables allow the senate to speak to a representative directly instead of through fliers.