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Competition is high, the heat is on: Who will the winners be?
FRANK JORDAN
News Editor
Erika. Egger, Associated
Student Government legislative
affairs senator, is running for the
office of vice-president and
would like to use that position to
open up more lines of communi
cation between the ASG and stu
dents.
“I would really like to make
a difference on the Clackamas
campus,” Egger said.
“We
would like to do everything in
our power to give the students
what they want and need.”
Egger’s position as legisla
tive affairs senator has given her
the opportunity to see the inner
workings of the student govern
ment and has let her take an
active role in many of the ASG’s
activities.
“I have taken a very active
role in fundraising since joining
ASG,” commented Egger. “We
raised almost $4,000 during win
ter term, mainly for the student
government’s trip to Washington,
D.C., but also for other activities
through our office. It was a very
exciting time, and that is mostly
why I wanted to get involved in
student government.”
Egger, 19, graduated from
North Clackamas Christian High
School in Oregon City and came
to Clackamas mainly because of
how close to home CCC is.
“I received a scholarship to
come here Fall term, but it is so
much more inexpensive to take
the general education classes
here at Clackamas than it is at a
four-year school,” Egger said.
Egger is a business major,
hoping to receive an AAOT
degree in the next year. She
hopes to study abroad down the
road, eventually getting a busi
ness administration degree.
“I thought that it was not
going to be very easy, but it has
been easier than I expected. I
took 18 credits during the fall,
but I needed more to motivate
myself,” said Egger. “Friends
told me to join ASG, because it
was a lot of fun. I really needed
to be busy, to get involved. This
group was the perfect outlet for
me.”
Egger is not shy about what
she wants to get out of this office.
She wants to get more students
involved at Clackamas and
wants to use her role as vice-
president to help streamline the
organization of die ASG.
“I just want to make sure
that people in the office are get
ting their jobs done and to have
more accountability,” said
Egger. “I am a big believer in
organization, and I would like to
instill that on the rest of the
members of the group.”
When asked to describe her
self, Egger gave some thought to
it, but she said it boiled down to
three words: spunky, hard work
ing and open-minded.
Jason Gibson, a candidate
for the office of president of the
Associated Student Government,
believes that the time is right for
a campaign of a new time, the
reality of a new time, and hopes
that the office of ASG president
is a platform for some of these
ideas.
Gibson, 32,. lives in Oregon
City and has an AA degree from
Clackamas, which he obtained in
1992. Although he is not cur
rently a student at Clackamas, he
intends, if elected to office, of
enrolling at the college with the
goal of “refining my personal
discipline, of wanting to better
myself in courses of art history
and natural science.”
Gibson says “I have proba
bly broken at least 7-10 rules
during the course of this cam
paign? But I know that the cam
pus and the people in this school
are thirsting for a vision for the
future.”
Contrary to many rumors
that have been circulating on the
Clackamas campus, Gibson has
never been involved with drugs
or any drug activity in his life.
“People have this concep
tion that because of the way I
look, and the ideas that I am try
ing to relate, that there must be
something strange going on with
me. I have very out-there ideas
that are not so far out. I am
about time and the perception of
time and the reality of time.
Most people have no concept of
time.
Since everything follows
from the mind it is no wonder
why the biggest complaint we
hear is ‘I don’t have enough
time.’ Those with time find
ways to kill time, waste time and
spend time. Change the time and
change your mind. Time is art.”
Gibson would like to weave
ASG and the institution of learn
ing into a social mandala of cre
ativity. To implement real-time
education through awareness of
natural time or the time of nature.
“The country is thirsting for
a vision. We have no vision for
the future. The vision is not
comprehensive enough,” says
Gibson. “We need to be more
sensitive to the environment and
the needs around us.”
To all of his skeptics out
there, Gibson has these words to
say: “Trust your intuition. Take
back the time. Investigate your
own mind. If you are not living
for a dream, then you are proba
bly not living.”
Gibson’s campaign has him
thinking that others have been
accusing him of wrongdoing, of
being outside of the norm.
Gibson really doesn’t see it that
way.
“This campaign is not really
about my ego, not about my
name. Thè whole issue is self
empowerment. Trust yourselves
to make the right decision and
trust me to carry out the plans of
the students and what I am trying
to do with my time. We all will
be better off for it.”
Associated
Student
Government Senator Stephanie
Neuhauser, a candidate for vice-
president, would like to see more
students get involved in their
campus and that is the main rea
son why she is seeking elected
office.
Neuhauser is the campus
activities senator for student gov
ernment this year, and is mainly
responsible for organizing activi
ties for students.
“We work mostly with the
clubs and other activities
designed to get the students
involved with the campus,”
Neuhauser said. “We have been
doing a lot of fundraising and
holding a lot of BBQ’s and other
events.
We
have
an
Environmental Day in the works
and more BBQ’s in the near
future.”
“The Vice-President is
responsible for a lot of the inter
nal workings of the student gov
ernment office and I believe that
is one of my strengths,”
Neuhauser said. “I want to make
sure that the office runs smooth
ly and make sure that everyone in
die office gets their work done
without too many problems.”
Neuhauser, 21, is a graduate
of Las Cruces High School in
Las Cruces, New Mexico. She
came to Oregon at the encour
agement of her extended family
and has enjoyed the experience
so far.
“I really did not have any
thing to keep me in New Mexico,
so my family gave me a little
nudge to come up to Oregon, and
I have no complaints yet,” com
mented Neuhauser.
Neuhauser is a pre-
med/criminal justice student at
Clackamas, with a goal of
becoming an FBI agent in the
future. She is not sure where she
wants to transfer to, but would
like to go to the East Coast to
continue her studies.
“I absolutely love the East
Coast, and in a perfect world,
that is where I would like to go to
school,” said Neuhauser. “But
we don’t live in a perfect world,
so I will probably end up going
to Western Oregon or Portland
State. Then, hopefully to med
ical school. Again, preferably on
the East Coast, but probably to
Oregon
Health
Sciences
University.”
Neuhauser was asked what
distinguishes her from her oppo
nent, but was a little apprehen
sive in her answer.
“Erika (Egger, the other
vice-presidential candidate) and I
are a lot alike in many aspects.
We both have the same goals and
are two very hard-working peo
ple,” Neuhauser said. “We have
similar management styles. I
would like to see people just do
their jobs, without the backbiting
that seems to have gone on to a
certain degree this past year. I
want to step in when conflict
arises, and see projects through
to the end. Just get the work that
needs to be done, get done.”
When asked to describe her
self in one word, Neuhauser
came up with two: Hard working
and spontaneous.
The executive director of the
Associated Student Government,
Molly Stanley, brings motiva
tion and commitment to her life
and her office, and those are two
of the points that will be men
tioned as she embarks on running
for the position of ASG President
this spring.
Stanley, 18, is a graduate of
Portland Christian High School
and is majoring in Elementary
Education here at Clackamas.
Her time spent at school has been
“challenging enough, but getting
repetitive.” She hopes she can
put some of her endless energy
into making the role of president
into a memorable one.
“Sure it (school) has been
stressful, isn’t it for all of us? I
hope to strive for a balance
between school and the office of
ASG president and have some
fun while doing both,” said
Stanley.
Stanley’s role as executive
director has been likened to that
of an administrative assistant for
the office, kind of a jack-of-all-
trades. She has been called on to
perform many functions within
the office, and she hopes that the
experience that she has gained
will bode well for her in the
future.
.
“I work with both the presi
dent and the vice-president on a
regular basis, sometimes help out
with planning, with activities and
with fundraising. I just love what
I do now for the ASG, but would
like to inject some new ideas and
some more organization into the
mix,” said Stanley.
Stanley hopes to receive her
AAOT degree next spring, and
then will probably transfer to
Western Oregon University to
finish up her studies.
“I have been taking a lot of
classes, all of the required classes
that are needed in order to trans
fer on schedule,” Stanley said.
“It has been a major challenge,
but I, so far, have been up to the
task.”
Stanley sees her major role
in being ASG president as help
ing the group get more organized
in their day-to-day tasks, work
ing out the loose ends of many
projects. One of her goals next
year is to increase the amount of
student space on campus and to
improve on the amount every
year. Another goal is to foster
better communication between
the students, the college adminis
tration and student government.
“I really want to work for
students, to listen to their needs
and desires, to make the college
experience better for everyone
concerned,”
said
Stanley.
“Communication really is the
key. If everyone can keep an
open mind about the issues, then
we all should be able to come up
with some reasonable solutions
to those issues.”
When asked to describe her-:
self in four words or less, Stanley
let out a laugh and said “commit
ted, determined, organized and
friendly.”
Candidates debate, expressing ideas, hoping to win
FRANK JORDAN
News Editor
The Associated Student
Government sponsored' a debate
between the presidential and vice-
presidential candidates yesterday in
the Skylight Dining Room, and the
four candidates involved bandied
about many interesting ideas.
Jason Gibson, candidate for
ASG president, is a self-pro
claimed Planet Art Networker,
who believes that “time is art, that
the phrase ‘time is money’ is fic
tion. People need to look beyond
ego, beyond a title in finding new
knowledge about themselves and
their lives.”
Molly Stanley, Gibson’s
opposition for ASG president,
wants to increase communication
between the students and the col
lege administration. “I want to
increase student space, keep tuition
rates down and work with the book
store on textbook prices.”
Erika Egger, vice-presidential
candidate, wants to better the ASG
organization and give, to the best of
her ability, what students want and
need. “I want to make students and
staff more aware of the recycling
opportunities on campus. To work
with Plant Services to increase our
recycling and get people more
involved on campus.”
Vice-presidential candidate
Stephanie Neuhauser would like to
increase communication between
students, student government and
the college administration. “To
make students more aware of the
opportunities on campus, by the
way of campus clubs and other
ways to express themselves.”
The ASG elections are tomor
row and Friday. Students may vote
online or fill out ballots in the ASG
office in CC-140. Results will be
published in next week’s Print.
To
reach
Frank
Jordan,
e-mail
fmj68@hotmail.com
or
drop by B-104.