ASG elections up and running
Presidential Candidates
Vice Presidential Candidates
Christopher Cox
Marlies Berney
Brandi Bean
Christina Miller
Liz Pike
Campaign Motto: “A history, a
future.. .If you want to be heard, I’m
your man.”
Campaign Motto: “Experience, hard
work and dedication.”
Campaign Motto: “Brandi Bean
knows what it means to be a leader.”
Campaign Motto: VOTE LP for VP
in 2003! Vote for Liz, she knows the
Student Government biz!
Presidential candidate Marlies
Berney believes the student body
deserves to be better informed. She
wants to improve the lines of commu
nication so that students understand
and have a voice in issues affecting
the school.
She is the current Legislative
Fundraising Officer and was last
year’s Senator to the Legislative
Fundraising Officer. Additionally, she
serves as the northwest regional rep
resentative for the American Student
Association of Community Colleges.
A 2001 graduate of North
Clackamas
Christian
School,
Berney is a member of Clackamas’
cheerleading club, is president of the
school’s French club and aspires to
someday restore a Ford Mustang.
Berney is working towards an
AAOT degree with an emphasis on
foreign language and foreign busi
ness. She hopes to attend Wheaton
College in Illinois and believes her
calling will one day take her to
South America or France as a mis
sionary.
Vice Presidential candidate
Brandi Bean believes she has the
ideas and experience needed to real
ly make a difference. She envisions
a leadership team that improves the
parking situation, creates a student
lounge and develops more campus
activities.
Bean brings her leadership expe
rience all the way from the Gooding
Accelerated Learning Center in
Gooding, Idaho. As a junior she was
student body treasurer; as a senior
she reached such heights as student
body president, class president and
head of the fundraising committee.
An All-American Scholar, Bean was
also a valedictorian who received a
Presidential Achievement Award for
Academic Excellence.
Her hobbies include photogra
phy, planning events, finding stray
animals to take care of, making peo
ple laugh and spending time with
her husband.
As a secondary education major,
she aspires to specialize in an alter
native style of teaching.
Campaign Motto: “I have the expe
rience...the enthusiasm and the
responsibility to get things done
well.”
Presidential candidate Christopher
Cox believes students deserve more
money and more fun. If elected, he
hopes to establish a fee grant to sup
plement tuition waivers, double child
care grants to $40,000, double text
book grants to $10,000 and create a
more active campus life.
His student government back
ground includes his current position
as Senator of Campus Activities and
last year’s station as Publicity
Committee Chair. A 1998 graduate
of Estacada HS, he raised over
$10,000 for Doembecher Hospital
during his four-year tenure as the
school’s Doembecher Fundraising
President.
With his love of the outdoors, Cox
enjoys such sports as rock climbing
and waterskiing. He has worked five
years as a youth basketball coach and
was a firefighter for two years.
A Spanish history major, he
aspires to attend the University of
Barcelona after graduating from
Clackamas.
Vice Presidential candidate
Christina Miller wants to ensure that
ASG fulfills its duties to the campus
and its students. If elected, she will
strive to maintain affordability and
adequate aid for students. Textbook
grants, childcare grants and tuition
are a few of the issues she believes
need attention.
Miller currently serves the ASG
as its Public Affairs Officer. A 2002
graduate of Franklin HS, she gained
leadership experience as the sopho
more class vice-president, junior
class president and senior class spir
it commissioner.
She enjoys all culinary experi
ences, whether the food is Italian,
Thai or Chinese. An exercise enthu
siast, she bums the calories by run
ning, mountain biking, hiking and
swimming, Miller also enjoys
spending time with her five siblings.
Miller looks forward to attending
the University of Washington after
graduation.
Vice Presidential candidate Liz
Pike wants to inform students about
all that Clackamas can offer. If
elected, she hopes to provide
improved communication about
resources available to students. She
also plans to lobby for greater fund
ing for the Childcare Grant and the
Textbook Grant.
Pike currently serves ASG as the
Officer to Clubs. A 1999 graduate of
Oregon City HS, her leadership
experience comes from her involve
ment as a big sister in the Big
Brother/Big Sister program, as a
mentor to community youth and as a
staff member for the Clackamas
County 4-H Summer Camp.
Her hobbies include photogra
phy, scrapbooking and skateboard
ing.
Pike has- attended Clackamas for
four years and has already earned her
general AA. She is enrolled in the
school’s medical assistant program
and would like to work in a pediatri
cian’s office after completion.
Compiled by Tina Tate
Q&A sessions with the candidates will be held April 29 and 30.
'The amazing Chabon' comes to campus
Clackamas Community College is set to host an evening with
Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," in the Gregory Forum on April 29
at 7 p.m. The cost is $10 for general admission and $7 for stu
dents. Tickets can be purchased in the ASG office, the library or
through Fastixx at 1 -800-992-TIXX.
Chabon is best known for his cinematized book “Wonder Boys. ”
He is currently working on writing the screenplay for the next
Spiderman movie.
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