Short History of BYUSA

BYUSA was originally formed in 1988 from the ashes of the Associated Students of Brigham Young University (ASBYU), affectionately dubbed Another Stupid Bureaucracy You're Under. The goal was to modify this organization to be more in line with the spirit of the university. You can read he rather long and informative (but interesting) history here.
But the basics are that BYUSA's new charter heavily stressed its role as a service association. "With its focus on service, cooperation, and leadership, the association would benefit from a level of cooperation and trust with the administration not possible between adversarial organizations." (BYUSA charter). Its other main purpose was to advise, although it seems that the service aspect was indeed the number one priority. The Student Advisory Council was formed as the approved method of student input.
The charter then lists off all the structural and organizational definitions contained within BYUSA.
Of interest to u is the following:

"The five main functions of the presidency are: 

1.  To provide the association with vision and administration

2. To develop and teach organizational guidelines and procedures which assist the association in accomplishing its mission

3. To budget and monitor the association’s use of funds

4. To assure the continuity and integrity of the association by evaluating its activities, and developing future leadership

5. To determine the programs and activities which the association will provide during its administration 

 

President 

The president directs the work of the presidency, meets with university administrators in an advisory function as needed and acts as the official student spokesperson at the university. 

 

Executive Vice President (EVP)

The executive vice president (EVP) assists the president by coordinating the work of the other presidency members and chairing the Student Advisory Council (SAC). As chair of SAC, the EVP sets the agenda for council meetings and reports the council’s recommendations through appropriate channels to university administrators. The EVP organizes the members of the council and other students into committees, appointing chairpersons and assigning duties."

Good stuff. Anyway, then the charter goes on to talk about how the presidency is elected. And that section is very long. When I read the duties of he presidency, though, I don't really see anything in those functions (besides perhaps number 5) that should give the student body any reason to care at all which individual discharges said duties.

Anyway, there's your info on BYUSA. Hope it was amazing.