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Greater focus on student concerns aim of CSRL presidential ticket By Carolyn Lamberson Of the Emerald ASUO presidential candidate Kasey Brooks believes past stu dent governments have focused too much on international con cerns rather than campus concerns. Brooks said she hopes, if elected, to make student government more responsible to the students it represents, and to get students more involved in the government process. cJBecbfons Brooks, a first-year law stu dent. has an undergraduate degree in international studies. She describes herself as ap proachable, motivated and self disciplined. She has been involved in her sorority, Pi Beta Phi. and the Associated Students President 's Advisory Council. She also was a cheerleader for two years. These past experiences, especially cheerleading, which she said involved a huge com mitment, have given her a broad-based involvement with many diverse groups. Brooks also is involved with Concerned Students for Respon sive leadership and said the in volvement with the group has helped her greatly. "We are a bunch of concern ed and different students who have bonded together because we have some common con cerns." she said, emphasizing CSRL is not a political party but a coalition of students who. if anything, want to de-politicize the ASUO. "My own personal political views are on the liberal side, and while I may be expressing personal opinion on some inter national issues, that does not necessarily mean every student shares my opinion," she said. "It’s not that I want to make the office apolitical." she added. She sees the role of the presi Karen Gaffney and Kasey Brooks dent as that of mediator or focal point between the students and the University administration. Brooks said. “The president has to remain a somewhat central focus,’’ she said, “but not so independent that you are not affected by stu dent views.’’ Brooks also would like to pro pose new adminstrative rules within the ASIJO office that would increase efficiency and help programs start the new year in a faster fashion. “That office can be more organized. There is a profes sional staff that needs to be utilized. They are getting paid, and it would save a lot of time,” she said. She also would propose a summer workshop for ASUO staff members that would help them organize the programs sooner instead of letting them wade through paper work and figure things out on their own, she said. Her running mate, Karen Gaf fney, echoes many of Brooks’ ideas, but also has her own ideas about how to run student government more effectively and more openly. Gaffney is a junior journalism major. She currently is chair woman of the EMU Board and sees that involvement as a train ing ground for the ASUO vice German AUTO SERVICE VWb MERCEDES BMW’S DATSUN TOYOTA Reliable service 'or your O AQ OQ'i O 2025 Franklin Blvd foreign car since 1963 I dm Eugene Ore 97403 i VINO'S SPAGHETTI HOUSE PIZZA 342-8111 Introducing . . . FREE Delivery Service! * •Free delivery with a minimum order Also offering • Full dinner menu • White or whole wheat crust • Limited delivery area 15th and Willamette Hours: Open 11 am 7 days a week -- J presidential office. “Living in Suite 3 (the EMU Board office) has given me a good perspective on the interac tion between student govern ment offices,” she said, since the ASUO office, Suite 4, is nearby. Gaffney would like the Ex ecutive to focus on openness and to apply that to attitudes as well as records. “The Executive needs to go out to where students are and solicit opinions,” because stu dent opinions will not just come to the Executive, she said. While Gaffney sees the presi dent as a top public relations person, she believes the vice president needs to make sure that occurs. “That means I would make sure, when Kasey is in Salem or when Kasey is out advocating for students, that issues here are being dealt with,” she said. On international issues, Gaff ney sees the Executive as a facilitator of student ideas rather than one who takes a stand. “The Executive speaks on behalf of all 17,000 students, and it would be very rare if they all agreed on any issue,” she said. “On political issues, the Executive should act to facilitate discussion on both sides. We need to have forums and speakers that would show both sides.” She said she supports groups like the Sister University Project and thinks if students want to educate other students on what’s going on in Central America, that’s good. “However, that doesn’t mean the ASUO has to become the Sister University Project,” she said. Gaffney also would like to see a change in students’ percep tions of the ASUO, she said. This could be done by en couraging students to vote. “Student apathy is an issue that is probably brought up on every campus. I am convinced people don’t vote bacause they feel their vote doesn’t matter,” she said. “It then becomes a challenge for the student government to convince students that their views are im portant. Students need to sense something is being done.” Gaffney, like Brooks, would like to see student government shift its focus from international to campus concerns, she said, specifically addressing the issues of child care, parking and campus safety. ‘‘Campus issues have systematically not been given priority by the government,”
