When Adam Humann came home at 7:30 p.m. last Wednesday night after giving his farewell address to Associated Student Government’s Senate, it finally hit him that he will not be at tonight’s Senate meeting.

“That was the first time I’d been home on a Wednesday night since my freshman year,” said Humann, a Weinberg senior. “Even when I missed Senate, it was for something important. I’ve never just chosen to kick back and watch TV.”

Instead, Humann has spent the past four years working to better the lives of Northwestern students and increase campuswide awareness of ASG.

After serving as a senator for two years and a yearlong term as student services vice president, Humann had significant ASG experience when he won the presidency with 64 percent of the student vote last year.

Humann said he has been a successful president despite criticism during campaigning that he didn’t have concrete solutions for his goal of bolstering NU’s sense of community.

“I’ve definitely been a much better president than I was a presidential candidate,” said Humann, whose proposals, namely providing paddle-boats for students on Lake Michigan, were ridiculed by some. “I did not have a lot of competition last year, which may have made me more complacent,” Humann said.

Throughout his term, Humann said he has tried to build community at NU.

“To some extent for me, that was making ASG user-friendly for student groups,” he said. Humann has tried to make himself available to student groups by being in the office “constantly” helping student groups.

Making students more aware of issues on- and off-campus was also important, he said.

Nick “The Diesel” Kacprowski, former ASG treasurer, said Humann’s most important legacy would be his drive to register students to vote in Evanston.

“It didn’t make a difference in the election,” Kacprowski said. “(Prof. Allan) Drebin still lost, but it shows that the potential is definitely there and all it needs is to be exercised in the future.”

Current ASG President Jordan Heinz said Humann’s greatest accomplishment was changing ASG to make it more responsive to the students.

“He has a vision for ASG that guided everything that he did, and that vision was employing our motto, which is ‘students first,'” said Heinz, an Education junior.

Humann’s platform drew criticism from some cultural groups who said it lacked plausible solutions to multicultural issues on campus.

Responding to those concerns, Humann said he has tried to increase multicultural awareness by helping to form ad-hoc committees in ASG for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and multicultural affairs. He has also advocated renovations to the Black House and was vocal, along with the Undergraduate Priorities Committee, in urging NU to hire an Asian-American outreach coordinator.

“While that may have been a criticism last year in terms of specific projects, that’s definitely more than most ASG presidents can say they’ve completed,” he said.

For Members Only Coordinator Chavis Richardson said he and Humann had a “general respect for each other,” and that Humann made improvements to the way ASG dealt with minority groups like FMO.

“He’s made pleas for ASG to recognize cultural groups like FMO here at Northwestern,” said Richardson, a Weinberg senior. “This year we had the opportunity to speak to the Board of Trustees about cultural issues, and that’s not something we had before been able to do. That’s something Adam pushed for.”

But former South Asian Students Alliance President Purvi Shah said she was upset by ASG allowing the Student Activities Funding Board to repeal a clause that forced 2 percent of the Student Activities Fee to be spent on MLK Day events. The repeal meant no funding was guaranteed for MLK Day programming; consequently, spring funding recommendations budgeted no money for events.

Humann said he has learned that he wants to spend his life effecting positive change.

“I would be unhappy with just an investment banking job where I make a lot of money,” he said. “I don’t want to end up doing something that is not making something better. I really realize things can be made better and if good people don’t get involved and try to initiate positive change, then that won’t happen.”

But even though he’ll be sticking around NU until graduation in June, he said part of him feels like he has finished his time here.

“I may not have walked across the stage or even passed my French class yet, but I feel like a major part of me has graduated,” he said.

The Daily’s Dan Murtaugh contributed to this report.