Pobanz leads Ag Club to new era

The CSC Ag Club is making a comeback. Having almost no active members for the past few years, the club is looking to start gaining members from all over campus. 

The club has spent the past year trying to come up with ideas for events, gaining membership and how to help students in their future careers. Rebekah Pobanz, junior of Grand Island, has taken on the task of making those goals a reality. 

The club has met twice this semester and during those meetings they have elected new officers and have begun the process of changing their name from Ag Club to Range Club. 

“We want our name to reflect our focus,” Pobanz said. “The students that are in the club feel that the club is more focused on rangeland.”

The club’s next goal is to increase membership and open the club more to students of different majors, so that students can learn about rangeland. Advertising is the next step in Pobanz’s process, and she hopes that it will successfully bring new majors. 

“We want to do activities that are a part of range and agriculture,” Pobanz said. “We want people to be interested in range.”

Pobanz wants to make the club more mainstream and host events that will help students in the long run. The hope is that the club will be able to find volunteer activities that will help students get much-needed  experience. 

“In past years we have been behind the scenes and not very active,” Pobanz said, “but I think this semester we can be more active.”

The organization is hoping to help students in their future careers and help them get experience to help. They plan on bringing in range professionals from organizations like Natural Resource Conservation Service and Farm Service Agency.

Pobanz hopes to see the club turn over a new leaf in the coming semesters, which will help them be a more active club on campus. She was motivated to become president after watching ideas from last year not be followed through with. 

“We talked about doing some stuff last semester and it was disappointing when it didn’t happen,” Pobanz said. “I have goals that I want the club to achieve and I want to keep moving forward and get things in motion.”

The excitement for a new start is not just welcomed by Pobanz but by Anthony Perlinski, Ag Club adviser. 

“I’m hoping to get Ag Club to the level that I remember it being,” Perlinski said. “Ag club used to be the club to be in, I want to get it there again.

The club has meetings open to all students every other Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Range Complex. Their next meeting is Tuesday and they hope to discuss ideas for volunteer activities and speaker ideas from the club’s members.