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Take Charge Meeting
Academic Affairs
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Small Dining Room
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Handicapped Awareness
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Saturday, April 30
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Sunday, May 1
Benefit Plant Sale
noon-5 p.m.
10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Fireside Lounge
ELC Nursery
Benefit Plant Sale
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ELC Nursery
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Vol. XVI, No. 22
Wednesday April 27, 1983
Voters pick
John Sagoe
for president
By Doug Vaughan
Of The Print
Linda Cox elected
ASG vice president
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His term has just started and his administra- :
tion will not be filled until later this week, but
newly-elected Associated Student Government
president John Sagoe has his ideas gathered and |
is putting them to use.
“My main concern is to improve the com
munication between the students and ASG J
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Right now it is terrible,” Sagoe said. “The bulk ol ' *
President-elect
John Sagoe
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Photos by Rick Obritschkewitsch
ed. It is not ASG’s fault, but something must be
done, and ASG should take some is a grievance committee to look over students’
ideas, a weekly newsletter from his office to the
responsibility.”
Throughout his campaign Sagoe stated students, and making himself personally
three ways in which he feels students can get in available to the students in the Community
volved. The first way is to be a participant and Center.
Sagoe is now in the process of completing
“actually be a part of the College.” Second, he
stresses the need for students to inform ASG of his executive cabinet. He is hoping other officers
their needs. Last of all, Sagoe feels that will be willing to sacrifice their time in order to
observers can be used to an advantage not by serve the students, he said. The other offices are
assistant to the president, administrative assistant
critisizing, but by informing ASG of problems.
“During my campaign I talked to a lot of and activities director. They are appointed, not
students who felt they were not being elected positions.
Activities is one area that Sagoe is looking
represented. If I am a student and no one will
to add strength to next year. He thinks many of
listen to my ideas I am not going to care. That is
the events that ASG sponsored this year did not
the level where the student communication is at
meet the needs of all the students.
right now,” Sagoe said.
“I listened to the older generation and they
“It is not a matter of what the people at the
top want, but what the bulk of the people want,” did not feel there is anything going for them.
the president-elect said. “It should make as little And some of the history majors who feel nuclear
significance as possible what my personal opi and governmental issues affect their lives felt
there is not anything happening that interested
nion is when I am representing the students.”
Sagoe feels that a promise for better student them,” Sagoe said.
“Every group should be represented and
communication would be foolish at this stage
have things happening that they enjoy,” Sagoe
because he has not looked into the matter in-
said. “Everyone pays tuition and should be
depth.
represented equally.”
“I don’t want people expecting things from
Sagoe’s opponent in the recent election,
me before I do anything about them,” Sagoe
Don Porter, had ideas for change and investiga
said. “It will take both parties (ASG and the
tion, but the president-elect does not see things
students). I can do my part, but the students will
in the same light.
have to do their part.”
“There are probably things that need look
The performance of this year’s ASG has
ing into, but until we can, it is not wise for us to
been “tremendous,” Sagoe thinks, but added
say things not until we know we can do
that there is always room for improvement. He
does not see any weak area (except for com something about them,” Sagoe said.
“People say the cafeteria prices are too high
munication) and is looking to add strength to
or that the bookstore prices are too high, so we
every area.
have to ask ourselves what can be done about
Considering all the complaints and criticism
them? What are the alternatives?”Sagoe explain
the College has faced, the major problem that
ed. “I do not think it is important for me to make
Sagoe sees is not dealing with the school itself
a decision when everyone else will have to suffer
but with apathy at the College.
the consequences. If the students decide the
As for ways to eliminate the problem, he
alternatives, then they are willing to suffer the
thinks there are no definite answers, stating
consequences.”
“Whatever you do there is going to be apathy.”
Looking toward his work as ASG president
Sagoe hopes that through improved com
munication between the students and student next year, Sagoe is also hoping for cooperation,
government the problem with apathy will be not only from the students, but his staff as well.
“We are all going to do it together. When I
minimized. One way Sagoe has begun to deal
with the lingering problem is by better use of the look for cabinet members, I will look for so
meone who will sacrifice their time in order to
suggestion boxes.
serve the students.”
Other ideas the president is tossing around
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Linda Cox received
nearly twice as many votes
as her nearest competitor to
become the Associated Stu
dent Government Vice Presi
dent for 1983-84 at last
week’s elections.
Cox received 195
votes. Tim Sytsma, the only
other official candidate,
received 108 votes. Cox
was very pleased with her
showing, especially since
she missed the last week of
campaigning due to illness.
zCox, 39, is a business
business administration
background and work as an
ASG senator all combined
to convince her to run for
vice president.
“Clubs and com
munications will be my main
areas of involvement,” Cox
said. She feels clubs are an
untapped source of power
for the College. “I would like
to see the clubs help with
community projects, such as
the blood drive and the re
cent Take Charge Day,” she
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Vice President-elect Linda Cox
administration major and
has been an ASG senator
for most of this year. At first,
Cox did not want to run for
office because she thought
her age would make it dif
ficult for the other, younger
students to identify with her,
she explained.
“Finally, I changed my
mind about that,” she said.
“I talked to several students
and discovered we had the
same problems; I’m single
now, I work, date, take
classes, study, and I have to
juggle all that together, just
like any other student.”
Cox is a work/study
student in the Career
Development and Job
Placement Center. She is
also the founder and
chairperson of the College’s
Spanish club.
Her work with clubs,
“The ASG needs to
work more closely with the
community. We are a com
munity college. They pay
the taxes that keep this place
open, so we have to show
we care,” Cox said.
On the subject of com
munications, Cox has
several ideas to make the
ASG more accessible to the
students. Those plans in
clude opinion polls and of
fice hours for herself and the
President-elect, John Sagoe
to talk to students. Cox
would also like to sëe a
weekly ASG column in The
Print. “We have to improve
communications. Not just
with our friends, but with all
the students,” she said. “If
you mention student
government to students,
they say ‘who?’.”