Brooklyn, Nair
recast ASUO staff
■The ASUO Executive has
made a few minor changes
to the positions in the office
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
Newly inaugurated ASUO Pres
ident Nilda Brooklyn and Vice
President Joy Nair have officially
taken the reins.
As the new executive leaders en
ter their transition period, they are
working with former ASUO Presi
dent Jay Breslow and Vice Presi
dent Holly Magner, who will help
them learn the ropes. They are also
bringing in a different version of
the ASUO staff to take over the of
fice next year.
Out of the roughly 35 people
who applied for positions, Brook
lyn and Nair have already hired
about 15. While four are returning
ASUO staff members and three
acted as ASUO interns in the past
year, four others are completely
new to the ASUO, Nair said.
“We’re excited,” Nair said. “We
hired an amazing group of people
that are all really qualified. I’m re
ally privileged to be working with
everyone.”
Besides hiring a slightly smaller
staff than this year’s, Brooklyn and
Nair have also made a few minor
changes to the type of positions in
the office. Rearrangements are be
ing made to the outreach team, the
pair has added a greek advocate,
and there will no longer be a desig
nated “diversity team,” Nair said.
“This was just the way we envi
sioned the staff and how our goals
would be tied in to the job descrip
tions,” she said.
Although a multicultural advo
cate and an international student
advocate will still be responsible
for working with diverse groups
and organizing programs, Brook
lyn and Nair do not recognize
them as a “diversity team.”
In a previous interview, Nair
said this change was made because
44 We’re excited. We
hired an a mazing group
of people that are all
really qualified. I’m really
privileged to be working
with everyone.
JoyNair
ASUO Vice President
the team believes diversity is an is
sue that should be consistently
worked on, and that it should be
weaved into all goals and initia
tives. Although the pair spoke
about diversity issues during their
run for office, diversity was not
separated from the other parts of
their campaign.
“Diversity is kind of this buzz
word right now, and that’s why we
'didn’t even have it as a platform,”
she said. “It’s going to be some
thing that’s integrated into all dif
ferent programs.”
This year’s outreach team in
cluded a community outreach di
rector, an outreach director, an out
reach associate, a housing
advocate and a safety advocate.
But next year the team will only
comprise a campus advocate and a
community advocate, and both
2001-2002
ASUO Staff List
Marketing Co-Coordinators—
Tambi Boyle, Thuvan Hoang
Campus Outreach—Dylan
Domaille
Community Outreach— Megan
Hughes
Elections Coordinator —Courtney
Hight
Programs Advocate—N ikaline
Katsilometes
Greek Advocate—Alexis Krohn
University Affairs— Jennifer Levy
State Affairs—Sand ra Newto n
Non-Trad Advocate—Gabe Sitowski
Federal Affairs—Jessica Southwick
Multicutural Advocate—Mario
Sifuentez
International Advocate— Jennifer
Huang
Financial Coordinator— Maulin
Patel
Source-ASUO Executive
will work in conjunction with the
university affairs director.
Jen Levy, returning university af
fairs director who shared the posi
tion with Chad Sullivan this year,
said this integration was logical
and will be beneficial to the out
reach team. She said, for example,
that one of her biggest goals is to
find students who will fill spots in
faculty committees — and she will
need the outreach team’s help to
accomplish this.
Nair added that because the out
reach team has fewer people taking
on more responsibilities, staff
members will also be able to assign
more work to interns, utilizing
their help more.
Although no specific plans will
be underway for a while, the exec
utive has begun setting up con
tracts with groups such as the Lane
Transit District, Nair said. In the
next couple of weeks, they will
have an overall training session for
new staff members, and training
will continue into the fall. The ex
ecutive leaders, who will prepare
themselves over the summer in
Eugene, have also been consulting
with mentors who have advised
them along the way, Nair said.
Members of next year’s staff said
.they are excited to take over their
positions fall term and start work
ing on specific goals.
Dylan Domaille, a freshman bio
chemistry major and the new cam
pus outreach advocate, is one staff
member who has not had any pre
vious ASUO involvement. But he
said after spending some time with
people who were involved, he saw
that student government actually
could make a difference. And, he
added, he is excited to contribute.
“Contrary to what I ever noticed,
they actually did do a number of
important things, and I just want
ed to be a part of that,” he said.
“I’m definitely going to jump in
head first.”
Levy added that the staff will
work together to think of exactly
what needs to be done next year.
“I’m just going to roll with the
punches,” she said. “We just need
to see what’s going on, make some
goals, and then go from there.”
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