ASCC President Michael Barrita has been in power, as president and vice president, for two years but his time has come to end and maybe now the school will have a leader that will listen to the student body and help make Cerritos College a better place.

The biggest thing that Barrita has not done is communicate with the students of Cerritos.

He has not done enough to understand the issues most students consider important.

Many of his promises have not been fulfilled and the ones that have, have been done in a way that is not acceptable.

His biggest accomplishment is saving the Hill, this is fine but it was only important to about 50 students. When you consider about 23,000 students attending Cerritos, this accomplishment was very insignificant.

Another one his so-called accomplishments was to create a book exchange program.

This was a great idea but the follow-though was horrible.

Instead of a program to help students get their books at a more reasonable price, it turned into a glorified bulletin board in which very few students actually utilized.

One of biggest promises was to get the drinking fountains on campus replaced or repaired so students could drink clean water.

That was another great idea and there were reports made by the ASCC cabinet to target the worst drinking fountains. However, there has been no progress made on actually replacing or repairing them.

And also, good job on replacing the ASCC sign.

At least the students can enjoy a sign that is practically the same as the last one.

Hopefully with a new leadership group in power next semester, the issues that are important to students will be addressed.