Temple Student Government had their first general body meeting of the school year Monday afternoon at 4 p.m. in room 200C of the student center.

Darin Bartholomew, Temple’s new student body president, opened up the meeting with the TSG student pledge to a crowd of roughly more than 100. He then discussed the “Cherry On” slogan and Cherry Fridays campaign which both focus on school pride as well as support for the university’s athletics program.

“No more wearing other schools’ clothing anymore,” Bartholomew joked, “don’t be that guy.”

Patrick Kraft, Temple’s deputy director of athletics, spoke next to stress the importance of student involvement in the athletics program including attendance at sporting events.

“[Students] are a critical part of the success of this program,” he said.

Kraft also asked for student feedback about what can be done better, or what is missing from Temple Athletics. He urged for students to email him with these comments at patrick.kraft@temple.edu.

Adriane Reilly, a program coordinator for Student Affairs, also spoke to the students gathered about Owl Connect, a database set up by Student Affairs for all student organizations.

Reilly stressed that this program works by user input. If the leadership of an organization changes and they don’t modify the contact information on Owl Connect, then no one will and the page becomes outdated, Reilly said. She added that the program is also meant to work closely with groups’ Facebook pages making it simple to link them.

At the end of the meeting, TSG held an open forum for various student groups to meet with students and provide meeting time schedules.