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He can’t leap buildings in a single bound and he is not Super man. He is Bobby Lee, City Council member and University graduate student. The month of January marks the end of Lee’s first year of a four-year term in office as the City Council representative for the University’s ward. Lee, 29, attended the Universi ty as an undergraduate public policy and management major in the late 1980s and early '90s, where he served as ASUO presi dent and a campus activist. During his student career, Lee facilitated the formation of the ASUO Multicultural Center, spearheaded the creation of cam pus radio station KWVA 88.1 and helped start the Racial Advo cacy Group for Equality, which was formed to deal with griev ances on hate crime-related is sues. After graduation from the Uni versity, Lee took a year off from school and worked for the Clin ton-Gore presidential campaign, Tom Bruggere’s senatorial cam paign and as the chief of staff for state Senator Susan Castillo. So why does Lee choose to de vote most of his time to juggling the dual roles of Eugene politi cian and University student? “I really enjoy politics and the energy and dynamics in being in volved in a political culture,” he saia. Howev er, he chuck led, this means he “basically does not have any so cial life at this point.” "Being on campus is a reliet to me ggg1™ because I Ltt don't have to talk about politics,” he said, “but outside of campus is a different issue.” Lee has tried to use his life as a University student to help with his job as a City Council mem ber. "I’ve tried to essentially create a different kind of relationship between the city and the Univer sity,” he said, “and more specifi cally between the administration and the students.” Lee described his role as a “middle man" in creating and sustaining existing city relation ships with the University ward. “From the city’s standpoint, I’m their boss,” he said. In the past year, Lee has worked with the ASUO and stu dents from the West University neighborhood, an area that was home last term to two riots and the focus of student rental rights. Lee said some rental problems have developed and there has been a lack of past council atten tion because of the high turnover rate for renters. He is currently working with student govern ment on a proposed housing code that would create habitabili ty standards. A draft of the code was completed last year when it was briefly reviewed by the City Council. "The least thing we could do is to provide (students) with ade quate housing,” he said. It has been easier to have a working relationship with an ac tive ASUO and student body be cause of his past experience in the office and the student insight he brings to his office as a City Council member, he said. Current ASUO President Bill Miner has been working with Lee on many issues during the past year and expressed his apprecia tion for Lee as a valuable re source for the University. “It's valuable to have a Univer sity student on the campus who votes for the council," Miner said. “I hope another student steps up to the plate and runs for the council when Bobby’s tenure is over.” Although Lee described his first year on the council as “tough,” he said his life as a stu dent has helped him communi cate with his ward. “The best part of being a coun cilman is being a student,” he said. “Students are more idealis tic and possess a raw intelli gence. 1 would have not run without a presence like the [Uni versity] in this district.” It's your brain. Incredibly malleable. Infinitely versatile. Awesomely inventive. At Andersen Consulting, we want to keep it that way. So we challenge it with a stimulating variety of assignments. 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