Michael D. Webber, ASMSU Student Assembly Chair, 2008-09.

MSU recently opened a new center to provide support for MSU students who are veterans. In 2007, ASMSU anticipated the need for an organization dedicated to addressing and advocating concerns of veterans who were students at MSU. In 2008, Spartan Armed Forces Council (SAFC) was established by a small group of ASMSU leaders, representatives, and current student veterans with the help of MSU staff member, Carlos Fuentes (also a veteran), as an adviser. Since then, SAFC has helped veterans feel better connected with the general student body and advocated their concerns and needs to ASMSU and the MSU administration. MSU students from all backgrounds deserve to have a full “Spartan Experience.” Along with the new student veteran’s center recently opened, Spartan veterans are closer to becoming a fully integrated part of the university and student body.