They are the first female president / vice president combination at Loyola since 1988. They spent thirty to sixty hours a week in the Student Government Association’s basement office or on SGA activities. But Mary Flynn and Lauren Campisi say they don’t regret the year they’ve shared heading the Student Government Association.”It’s been an amazing experience. …I put a lot into it, and I feel like I’ve been rewarded for it,” said Flynn, a finance senior rounding out her term as SGA president. The two agreed that they were proud of their collaboration with other students in creating a fresh spirit of campus unity. Campisi said she is especially happy with SGA’s contribution in helping to raise money after Sept. 11. Flynn said she is happy they got the ball rolling on the athletic scholarship issue. “The conversations (with administrators) have finally started to become very serious, so I think the time frame for that is pushed up, which makes me so excited I want to run around screaming,” Flynn said. She said she is also proud of her involvement in restructuring the tuition plan to let entering students know what kind of increase to expect each year. Campisi, an international business and economics senior, said she is happy with the success she and Flynn have had with streamlining some of SGA’s behind-the-scenes processes, including the budget allocations. She also said she thinks SGA Week was a success. Flynn and Campisi both said they don’t think they would have been able to work so well together if they had not already been close friends. They have had classes together every year and also knew each other through their previous SGA experience. The two served as business representatives together. “When you are sitting in here (the SGA office) on a Saturday night at 10 o’clock,” Flynn said, “if you’re not working with someone you enjoy, then it’s totally…” “Miserable,” the two said in unison.Both said they didn’t accomplish everything they would have liked to.Flynn said she wished they could have done a better job putting the SGA Web site together. Campisi said she wished they could have better financed student organizations by increasing the SGA fee, which has not been increased in eight years. “There’s not much that I regret,” Flynn said. “I mean, everybody has a little regret in everything they do, but there’s not much regret there.” Flynn and Campisi will hand the reins of SGA over to the newly elected administration at a transition meeting on April 2. Flynn said that if the new president and vice president agree to it, she will guide the new administration through at least its first two weeks in office. Campisi said the new administration will face many responsibilities as soon as it takes office, including freshman elections and budget allocations, which she said make focusing on the bigger issues difficult to tackle.Flynn said that with the extra time she’ll have after leaving office, she will return to the life of a normal college student. Campisi said she is looking forward to having enough time to sleep and study for her classes. The pair also said they hope to enjoy their friends and the city, which they will probably be leaving after May graduation.”We’ll like natural light again,” Campisi said. “I’m not used to that anymore.”