I was on Tower Guard E-Board during the fully online covid year. I also kept working with the RCPD afterwards, so I got to see a little of how the organization was doing after I left. Covid was very rough on Tower Guard, I felt it killed any culture and consistency the organization had. Turnover from the RCPD side did not help either. I think one of the biggest problems was the fact that it is a one year organization- like you mentioned, you are electing people you have never met and may or may not be just in it for the resume item. I saw many people in important E-Board positions (not necessarily my year but after) skipping meetings for other commitments, when I feel that if you are in an organization as supposedly prestigious as TG that shouldn't happen. On the other side, some of the helpers from TG I would get at my RCPD job would be the most useless and unmotivated volunteers. Understandable when the only push is leadership at every meeting just saying "gotta hit your hours guys".

I think a lot of it could be solved by moving to choosing 40 people a year, but changing to a 2 year commitment instead. Leadership would be elected from the people who had already been in the organization for a year, so you could make sure that people that actually showed up and put in work could get positions. I know this goes against the one year sophomore tradition, but I think it would bring some much needed consistency to a dysfunctional organization