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Wednesday, April 16
3:30 p.m. EMU Fir Room
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Candidates seek
EMU Board seat
Candidates cite budget
allocation as an important
part of the contested position
John B. Dudrey
Freelance Reporter
The EMU Board is a 15-member
committee comprised of students,
faculty and EMU staff. The board is
responsible for allocating $5 million
to student programs and service ar
eas, as well as managing the 200,000
square feet of the EMU.
EMU Board representatives are
elected to two-year terms. When a
representative leaves office early
(often because of graduation), a fill
in is elected to serve out the re
mainder of the term. Students have
three choices to fill the two-year
midterm EMU position — the only
other open position is uncontested.
Candidates for the midterm fill-in
position are Omid Kianersi, Slade
Leeson and Josh Rapp.
The Emerald
asked each can
didate two gen
eral questions
about his
prospective of
fice: What does
the EMU Board
do and why is it
important;
what is the
most important
issue facing
EMU programs
and the EMU itself?
Kianersi is junior psychology
major from Agoura Hills, Calif. He
is a member of the Sigma Chi fra
ternity and serves as the chapter’s
risk manager.
Q: What does the EMU Board do
and why is it important?
Kianersi: I’m not too familiar
with the position, the details of the
position, but from what I under
stand it’s important in regulating
the administrative aspects of the
EMU. I believe there’s a finance
committee, and they just work
hand in hand to ensure the smooth
operation of the EMU.
Q: What is the most important is
sue facing EMU programs and the
EMU itself?
Kianersi: I don’t see that there is a
tremendous issue at hand immedi
ately, but there’s always room for im
provement. I’m a firm believer in ef
ficiently organizing any sort of
administrative (activity). There’s
nothing in a state of disrepair or any
thing like that. There’s obviously
room for improvement, but I don’t
see any one key issue that looms
larger than the rest.
Leeson, 19, is a freshman from
Portland. He is currently undeclared.
Q: What does the EMU Board do
Kianersi
and why is it important?
Leeson: They oversee how the
EMU operates, but I think the most
important thing they do is assign all
the student fees. Really, I think
they’ve done a pretty good job of it.
The biggest problem is there’s less
money to go around now, and so
they have to assign it in a way that
helps all the students. I guess I’m
not so much concerned with keep
ing student fees small as I am with
making sure they maintain all the
services people want. If we have to
have more student fees, then OK, I
guess that’s what you’ve got to do.
Q: What is the most important is
sue facing EMU programs and the
EMU itself?
Leeson: I would have to say it’s
what we talked about — making
sure the money is distributed even
ly. I think we also ought to pursue
outside revenue-generating possi
bilities, like — it was talked about
a while back —
equipment
rental should
be expanded to
include the
general public.
Rapp is a jun
ior studying po
litical science.
The Medford
native is also
active with the
ROTC program
on campus.
Q: What does
the EMU board do and why is it im
portant?
Rapp: The EMU Board, what it
does is, it makes decisions regarding
general policy and long-term plans
for the EMU and allocates funds from
a multimillion dollar budget and
does things like designating office
space to various student groups on
campus.
Q: What is the most important
issue facing EMU programs and the
EMU itself?
Rapp: One problem, for example,
that I see, is that there’s a significant
number of stu
dent groups
who would like
to have office
space in the
EMU, and that
space is just not
available, so it’s
pretty competi
tive and a lot of
groups are kept
out and kind of
put at a disad
vantage be
cause that space is not available for
them to have an office in the EMU.
John B. Dudrey is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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