Election briefs
Aspiring politicians
to battle Monday
A tidal wave of leadership-mind
ed students have flooded onto the
political arena to fight for the right
to represent University students’ in
terests next school year.
This year there are six tickets
running for ASUO Executive, ready
to lead the University’s student gov
ernment in the upcoming school
year. But before they can stand like
sentinels against infringement on
students’ rights, they must prove
themselves in a battle of wits and
words at a debate 7 p.m. Monday in
the EMU Ballroom.
ASUO Elections Manager
Michelle Rose said the debate will
be mediated by current ASUO Pres
ident Rachel Pilliod. Candidates
will be asked three questions per
taining to student government by a
small panel of leaders in the Uni
versity community. Then the floor
will be opened up to allow members
of the audience to ask questions of
the political hopefuls.
—Jennifer Bear
Six ASUO candidates
drop election bids
The ASUO elections arena has
grown thinner as more candidates
officially drop their bids for election.
Six candidates have bowed out of the
election completely, and one candi
date has moved to a new race.
Programs Finance Committee Sen
ate Seat 1 candidate Thomas Wort
man and PFC Senate Seat 2 candidate
Faryl Kagan, as well as EMU board Fi
nance Senator candidate Guru Simrat
Khalsa, all have officially withdrawn
from their races, according to elec
tions officials. Richie Carpenter
moved from the EMU board At-Large
two-year term race to the Associate
Students Presidential Advisory Coun
cil race, leaving one EMU board At
Large two-year position unfilled and
another unopposed.
ASPAC candidate Adam Betzel
berger told the Emerald in March
that he would be dropping out of his
race.
Elections officials confirmed that
executive candidate Garrett Hinds
and senate candidate Sami Hayden
did officially drop from the race.
The Emerald is publishing elec
tions coverage through Tuesday, but
the interview stories published in
the paper are not the full transcripts.
To read the interviews in their en
tirety, go to www.dailyemerald.eom,
mouse-over the “News” link, and
when the menu pops up, click on
“ASUO elections.”
Look for a full updated list of can
didates in Monday’s Emerald.
— Staff writers
Seat 8
continued from page 1
senators’ duties?
Jesse Harding is a junior majoring
in journalism and international
studies, and is involved with a num
ber of campus activities. He is cur
rently the ASUO Community Out
reach Coordinator, former
president and current rush chair
man for his fraternity, Pi Kappa Al
pha, and the co-chairman of the
Student Conduct Committee. Hard
ing said the senate could pass reso
lutions about almost anything as
long as it remained non-partisan,
but did not touch on the allocation,
expenditure or use of incidental fees
directly. The most important part of
the duties outlined in Section 5 is
that the senate is responsible for
submitting its own budget to the
president, Harding said.
Q: What are the most important
issues facing the students you’d
represent?
Harding: Well, one issue students
seem concerned about is the avail
ability and distribution of tickets, and
how smoothly that process goes. Stu
dents selling student tickets is always
an issue. From the ADFC standpoint,
those are the core issues. Obviously
there is a big demand for tickets be
cause we are good at a lot of sports,
but also with the budget cuts in the
state, students
are going crazy
about their tu
ition. Even
though the sen
ate doesn’t actu
ally go up to the
senate in Salem
and advocate
for tuition de
creases and in
creases, there’s Harding
a lot the board
can do, whether it be through resolu
tion or whether it be just from getting
involved and getting other students
involved to make sure that we don’t
have further increases.
Q: What is the most important
thing you should know in order to
deal with the budget process?
Harding: You need to know how
the fee is allocated, the process it
self, not only where the money is
going but why it is appropriate, and
realizing that the incidental fee is
everybody’s money, and when you
spend incidental fee money, you are
spending everybody’s money. It bet
ter be going to a service that could
benefit all students and make the
experience here better for them.
Anthony Kuchulis is a sophomore
political science major and is in
volved with the greek system. He is
social director of his fraternity,
Delta Sigma Phi and said he has the
“arduous task
of throwing dry
parties,” as is
also the vice
president of ed
ucation and
programs in
the Interfrater
nity Council.
Kuchulis did
not know the
sort of resolu- KucKullS
tions the senate
could pass, but said the most impor
tant duties were attending all senate
meetings and participating in the
two required committees.
Q: What are the most important
issues facing the students you rep
resent?
Kuchulis: The biggest issue for
ADFC is the contracting of the new
basketball court and how seating is
going to work for that: How many
seats students are going to get and
how it will be funded. Another issue
for ADFC is that students are sup
posed to pay for 50 percent of the
tickets through the incidental fee and
currently we are paying for some mi
nuscule amount below that, like 46.5
percent, and that’s as much as we can
afford. So it’s just a batde to keep that
balance and make sure that we don’t
regress in our standing with the Ath
letic Department and that we im
prove our relations and current situa
tion.
Q: What is
the most im
portant thing
you should
know in order
to deal with the
budget
process?
Kuchulis:
The nuances. I
think it is im
portant and
look forward to attending as many
meetings as possible and getting as
many different facets of the senate
that I can. Obviously the parts that I
need to learn the most about are
probably the things I don’t know.
Vincent Martorano is a freshman
political science major with a minor
in business and is not involved with
any other groups or clubs at the Uni
versity. He is running for senate be
cause he is interested in government
and sees being a senator as a good
stepping stone. He said that his first
priority, if elected, would be to get the
Club Baseball program established as
a varsity team because the University
is the only Pacific-10 Conference
member without varsity baseball.
Martorano was unsure of the specifics
regarding senate resolutions, and also
wasn’t able to comment on Section 5
of the senate rules.
Q: What are the most important
issues facing the students you’d
represent?
Martorano: Tuition hikes. Oh,
representing for sports, let’s see ... I
have not had a chance to look at
how large our budgets are. I do not
know if groups are hurting for mon
ey. I do not know about Women’s
Lacrosse, which was recently pro
moted to varsity. I’m not sure if they
are yet or if they are needing more
funds. I haven’t looked, so that
could be one thing that would be
looked at — if they need more mon
ey, if they have too much money.
Q: What is the most important
thing you should know in order to
deal with the budget process?
Martorano: Definitely working
closely with my colleagues, knowing
what they like to do, how they like to
go about it, especially if there are go
ing to be incumbents and returning
people who have done this before,
kind of feed off them, you know, go
with their lead. You know, listen to
the teams. I mean, that would be the
job as the senator in the seat, work
closely with the teams, if they need
money, if they desperately need it,
you work with them on it. Or, like I
said, they might have too much mon
ey — which no one is ever going to
admit that.
Kira Park is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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