With only 26 days left in office, AMS executive JDL hopes students have seen their year as a memorable one.

The team, made up of President Doug Johnson, Vice-President of University Affairs Mira Dineen and Vice-President of Operations Tristan Lee won last year’s election with 60 per cent of votes in the first round of preferential voting.

The team cited Assembly’s changing of the fraternity and sorority policy and the AMS’s success in regaining control of the Non-Academic Discipline system as major successes.

They also helped launch the QSecure App, which allows students to have access to campus security on their smartphone.

“The best moments, I would say, are when you see people working together as a collective youth that have such passion and turn that into authority,” Lee, ArtSci ’12, said of JDL’s term in office.

The year wasn’t without its slipups. One of the team’s biggest challenges this year was dealing with the negative attitude the student government community had. The team agreed that it wasn’t one specific faculty or one certain incident; it was the lack in respect that they noticed.

“Some of the discussions we have had have not been kind or respectful,” Dineen, ArtSci ’11, said. “We can do so much when we are respectful. I hope [the incoming executives] have a year where they can build, create and move forward.”

Johnson said he believes there was a turning point for the student government meetings like AMS assembly.

“We ended 2012 on a rough note: the meetings were long, debates were going in circles, but over the break, there was a new burst of energy and the debate was constructive,” Johnson, ArtSci ’12 said.

Team JDL is succeeded by team BPP, comprised of Eril Berkok as president, TK Pritchard as vice-president of university affairs and Nicola Plummer as vice-president of operations. They will take office on May 1.

“Hopefully the students will look at our year as successful,“ Johnson said. “I hope that they have had just as much fun.”