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Chen wishes to address internal problems of ASUO By Victor Runyan Oregon Daily Emerald Wylie Chen is a junior majoring in Planning, Public Policy and Management. Mitra Anoushiravani is a sophomore double majoring in Political Science and Theater. What’s your platform? A»WC: We have a number of •goals that we want to accom plish, things like retaining seats at MacCourt and Autzen Stadium, child-care, campus safety, quick Internet downloads access for off campus students, things like that. But our main issue is the restruc turing of the ASUO, the internal operations, and we have a lot of internal problems in the ASUO that we want to address. g|«What do you consider the two If*most pressing issues at the University? A«MA: I think the first one is the • lack of cooperation between the ASUO programs and the ad ministration. It’s the ASUO's re sponsibility to kind of be the medi um between those three and be the communication between those. WC: Our other issue is ASUO accountability. ASUO is responsi ble for over six million dollars in student fees. We need to be ac countable for those, for all the program and services we offer. |J»How do you plan to deal with l|»those issues? A»WC: The first thing we need to • do is get rid of the personal agendas and conflict of interests within the student government. MA: Then we need to shift the leadership approach and elimi nate the top down approach and put it on a kind of horizontal plane, to really support the pro grams and the students as op posed to telling them what they should or shouldn't do. Q»What are the weaknesses of .the University? «»WC: We have a lot a programs •and services on our campus that students don't know about. Our outreach and publicity for these services and programs is ex tremely poor. It’s not that stu dents don’t want to be involved with all these programs and ser vices that the ASUO provides. Q.What are the strengths of the •University? A*MA: The potential for student •empowerment and there is a lot of student activism on this campus, a lot of energy and en thusiasm. Wylie and I both really believe that students really do care about what goes on. Q«What experience do you have •that makes you a good candi date for ASUO president and vice president, respectively? A«WC: I've served on ASUO ex •ecutive for two years, prior to this year. I worked with USSA and lobbied for higher education, financial aid and whatnot in Washington, D.C. This past sum mer I worked for Senator Ron Wyden working with constitutes and legislative issues and current ly I’m the student senate vice president. Outside of that student government experience I’ve worked with a lot of other pro grams. MA: Last year at Hamline Uni versity, I was involved in the stu dent congress and this year I’m vice-chair of the EMU board and I’m a resident assistant. Q*What would be your goals as .ASUO president and vice president? A.WC: My main goal is to fix the •internal problems and to make the student government function like it is supposed to and not push our personal agenda. MA: My goals are two-fold: The first is that I want to personally represent the under-represented students on campus, which tradi tionally has been those who are not involved in the ASUO. The second is that I want to create an executive office that is student centered. Q*What sets you apart from the •other 10 presidential candi dates? #»MA: What sets Wylie and my •self apart from the rest of them is that we are a new, innovative, unaffiliated and perceptive in the ASUO. WC: And with our experience and knowledge of the ASUO we’ll be able to get the things that need to get done. Hartley advocates online registration in place of Duck Call By victor Runyan Oregon Daily Emerald Brandon Hartley is a sopho more English major. ||»What’s your platform? A«I have three major issues on «my platform. The first one is to get rid of the Collier House and re place it with a 20-story parking garage. What goes on in the Col lier House? Pretty much nothing. It’s a waste of spat e on the cam pus that is rapidly outgrowing its boundaries. Parking on campus is an enormous hassle that this pro posed parking garage would easi ly remedy. Number two on my platform, I intend on using my ex ecutive power to redirect all fund ing currently invested in all stu dent organizations on campus to wards a superduper thermo-mag netic telescope. The telescope would be used not only to carve my initials in the surface of the moon but to extort money out from OSU. Number three, I’d like to make class registration avail able via the Internet. We, as a campus, are in desperate need of an alternative to the excruciating, frustrating Duck Call. Q»What do you consider the two •most pressing issues at the University? ««Well, first off, this campus •reeks of mildew between the months of November and April and frankly it makes me nau ■ Robinson Theatre UT Box Office: 34^-4191 EMU Ticket$$t]3-436&m« Gender and Identity in Contemporary Asian Art Kate Bouiinsingd visual arts critic, Willamette Week §fc> tonight, April 7 • 6 I’M MusEvenings! \ ret*: Admission I'ri’c: Kclrcshmcnls Almost I’rct*: lltfcr, VViiu’ and Soda (S I each) Pboip by Marsna Burns seous. Second, I'd probably say the whole OSPIRG debacle. Q«How do you plan to deal with •those issues? ««As far as the mildew goes, I’d •imagine just sticking a few air fresheners everywhere. Maybe one every five square-feet on cam pus. As far as the whole OSPIRG thing, I don’t know. Well, there really wouldn’t be that much of an issue because I would have no intentions of conducting a huge conspiracy to get it back on cam pus. Q»What are the weaknesses of •the University? A«There are so many. Not •enough stop signs; I think there needs to be more stop signs on campus. I think there needs to be air-raid sirens, too. 'Cause, you know, God knows when the bomb is going to be dropped. Q«What are the strengths of the •University? *»It’s a utopia during the sum •mer months; everyone is run ning around half naked. That’s kind of nice. Other strengths? I would have to say that’s it. That’s the single strength on campus. QaWhat experience do you have •that makes you a good candi date for ASUO president? B»I have none. So I feel 1 am just H.as qualified as (ASUO Presi dent) Geneva Wortman was going into office a year ago. Q«Why did you choose not to •have a running mate? A• I did have a running mate, but he • dropped out at the last second before the whole registration thing. Q«What would be your goals as •ASUO president? Adjust the three things on the •platform, and it might be nice to set a record for impeachment — for the quickest impeachment in the history of this University. Q»What sets you apart from the •other 10 presidential candi dates? A«I have a bigger nose than •everybody else, and, yeah, I think it’s greasier too. So 1 think 1 am the candidate with the biggest greasiest nose. ENROLLNOW.E ENROLLNOW, ENROLLNOW. 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