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Elections attract five candidates
By Amy LaBare and Shelley
Ball
Of The Print
With Associated Student
Government (ASG) officer
elections approaching on April
25 and 26, five students have
turned in their petitions and
will begin campaigning for the
offices of president and vice
president.
As of press time presidential
contenders include Eric
Latinen, Darwin Dale Keller
and Daniel Hilts, and students
Henry Palacios and Shawn
Watterberg will be vying for
the vice presidential spot. The
deadline for turning in peti
tions is April 19.
The candidates will have a
chance to speak on April 22,
the first day of activities for
the ASG-sponsored “Zap
Week.” They will speak
around noon outside of the
Community Center Mall.
Latinen, 19, is majoring in
hotel and restaurant manage
ment at the College. Currently
an activities senator on ASG,
said he has enjoyed being on
ASG this year and wants to
make next year even better. He
explained he wants to develop
new activities because he
thinks students are “getting
bored” on campus and would
like to see some changes.
“People seem to always like
change,” Latinen said.
Latinen sees ASG as having
two main purposes. The first is
to be a link between students
and the board. The second is
to keep students interested in
school so they “don’t drop
out.” Other purposes of ASG,
Latinen said, are to help
students with any problems
they might be having and to
answer questions about the
staff or handle problems with
staff members.
Keller, 31, said he is running
for president because he would
like to see ASG become more
vocal on political issues. “I
feel there are never enough
issues brought up,” he said,
adding “They (ASG) never
wanted to make waves” in
dealing with political issues.
Shawn Watterberg
“Waves hurt, but you don’t
make progress unless you
make waves,” Keller said.
Keller has attended the Col
lege between stints when he
served in the military and
worked. One of his jobs in
cluded being a union local
president. He is currently ma
joring in arts and letters and
Eric Latinen
would someday like to become
a writer. He also would like to
obtain a bachelor’s degree in
folklore mythology.
Hilts also said he would like
to see the ASG sponsor more
political activities. A second-
year student at the College,
Hilts, 20, has not declared a
major yet but is interested in
becoming a teacher.
If elected president Hilts
said he would like to form a
political awareness committee
that could include holding a
series of discussion forums
dealing with local, state and
national issues of concern to
students. “I want everybody
to be involved and know
what’s going on in politics,”
he said.
Currently president of the
International Club, Hilts also
said he would like to get all the
club presidents on campus to
starting meeting on a regular
basis, as well as making the
ASG more accessible to
students. “I think there’s a
lack of communication bet
ween students and ASG,”
Hilts said.
Vice presidential candidate
Palacios is currently a senator
to the assistant to the presi
dent. If elected to the position,
he would be working on the
budget, which he said would
be a good experience and
would help him with his major
in mathematics. He also said
he wants to see exactly how the
budget is run.
Palacios also stressed that
meeting students is very im
portant to ASG. He wants to
“let them (students) know
we’re (ASG) here.” He said
that to accurately represent the
student body ASG members
must have a lot more contact
with students. “We can’t go
by our own thoughts. We have
to know what they are think
ing.”
Palacios said ASG also
needs to be involved with the
community so “they will know
we’re doing something (at the
college).”
Watterberg, who will be
rivalling Palacios for the posi
tion of vice president, also said
that it’s important for the
ASG to “keep in touch with
students.” Majoring in
business, Watterberg said that
becoming involved with ASG
would be a valuable learning
experience for him. “I‘d like
to get the best possible educa
tion here, and vice president
seemed like the best position
for me to run for at this time,”
he said.
He added that if he is
elected vice president one of
his goals would be to “get the
voice of the students as a
whole represented in ASG as
much as possible.”
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