Snyder leaves for new job
recruiting in the Midwest
By Julie Shippen
Of the Emerald
One might say that Bill
Snyder got more out of the 37th
Annual United States Student
Association conference than
any of the other 250 delegates
attending the early August
event.
Besides gaining a little
political savvy, Snyder got a
job.
After participating in the
association’s week full of
workshops, caucuses, plenary
sessions and other meetings,
Snyder proposed to USSA of
ficials that he be assigned to
recruit for the organization
throughout the Mid-United
States.
During the past year as a
delegate and board member of
USSA, Snyder and other local
members spearheaded an exten
sive and quite successful cam
paign to get colleges along the
West Coast involved in USSA.
Snyder believes that for the
organization to be truly a na
tional one, as its title implies,
schools from other parts of the
country, such as the Midwest,
must also become active.
“It isn’t fair," Snyder says.
“A national student organiza
tion should be recruiting na
tionally. We claim to represent
all students... we need to start
forming that feeling.’’
Apparently USSA took him
seriously, giving him the job
and even offering Snyder fun
ding for gas, lodging and food,
he says. Snyder adds that he
may wind up saving the
organization a few dollars as he
plans to stay with other student
leaders part of the time and
camp out, depending on
weather conditions.
Snyder says the USSA trip is
also part of the reason he recent
ly resigned from his position as
ASUO Student Events Coor
dinator. Freed of the many
responsibilities he carried
there, Snyder says he plans to
leave this coming Saturday to
recruit for the next three
months.
He’ll begin his trip in Idaho,
he says, and then cover the
states of Utah, New Mexico,
Arizona, Nevada and Texas. He
may also recruit in Oklahoma
and Arkansas if time allows, he
adds.
One reason Snyder got the job
is that other USSA leaders are
reluctant to visit these states,
which they consider to be less
glamorous than other regions,
Snyder says.
“USSA does not recruit in the
central U.S. simply because no
one wants to go there,” he says.
Snyder is more flexible, he says,
having lived in nearly all 50
states at one time or another.
“All I have to do is keep my hair
short... I can even talk with a
drawl if I have to.”
His four-year background in
local student and community
politics will also be an aid to the
trip, Snyder adds.
Bill Snyder
‘‘I know enough to apply my
politics by now,” he says, "It’s
like a child with a new toy. It’s
time to take it out and use it.”
Snyder, a junior studying
sociology and political science,
will also study migrant labor
camps in the region, and he
hopes to pick up college credits
from the personal interviews he
will make with these workers.
Snyder, who terms himself a
"political organizer,” says the
red tape involved in an unsuc
cessful loan attempt for the trip
sparked another idea, which he
may add to his long list of
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