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Candidates focus campaign
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By PAUL TELLES
Ol the Emerald
Four students are vying for the job, but
at the end of this week only two can be
left in this year’s ASUO presidential race.
Thomas Brannon, Donovan Guy,
Bruce Mills and Rich Wilkins have been
campaigning for the ASUO helm for the
past week, but the primary elections this
Wednesday and Thursday will eliminate
two of them unless one garners more
than 50 percent of the vote and wins the
job on the first ballot.
Most of the campaigning thus far has
centered on the dismal prospects for
higher education funding in the Legisla
ture and on the current ASUO adminis
tration’s lobbying efforts, which were
organized by Wilkins.
Guy and Mills both have criticized
Wilkins, currently ASUO vice president
for state and university affairs, for not
involving enough students in the lobby
ing effort.
Aside from the squabbling over the
lobbying effort, each of the candidates
has a different campaign theme.
Thomas Brannon, who frankly admits
he’s "never been the head of anything,”
says, "It’s time for an average student”
to be elected ASUO president. He says
the student government has been
dominated by ASUO people, which leads
to biases that may not be shared by most
students.
If elected, he says he’ll maintain an
"open-door policy" that will allow con
stant input from students. He also says
he plans to contact the University’s
departments and schools on a regular
basis.
Donovan Guy, the only black student
in the race, says he can bring to the
ASUO Executive a professional air lack
ing under current ASUO Pres. Dave Ea
ton.
To prove this contention, Guy points to
his experience as a member of last year’s
Residence Hall Governance Committee,
as president of Smith and Young dormi
tories and as vice president of the Black
Student Union.
As ASUO president, Guy says he'll
seek to involve more minority students in
ASUO affairs and try to consolidate some
of the ASUO programs — especially the
environmental programs — to save in
cidental fees.
“The change I would make is I would
take advantage of the students interest
ed in getting involved,” says Mills. Too
many students have no idea what the
ASUO is or what its approximately 80
programs are about, he says.
He blames this situation on the ASUO
Executive, not on the programs or the
students.
“The ASUO is failing to integrate
students into its programs.”
Mills has been involved in several
Mock United .Nations and is a former
member of the Political Science Student
Union and the Forensics Club. He also
worked as a legislative intern to U S.
Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore.
Wilkins says he would bring “contin
uity” to the president’s office, which he
says is crucial because of the Universi
ty’s current funding problems.
The main projects of his administration
would be trying to make the athletic
department accountable to student
government for its incidental fee alloca
tions, trimming the EMU budget and
pushing for a new system of childcare
funding.
As well as being ASUO vice president,
Wilkins is the Survival Center’s legisla
tive coordinator, a former president of
the Political Science Student Union and
a former director of the Model United
Nations.
Photos by Erich Boekelheide
Bruce Mills
Rich Wilkins
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