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CCC bids goodbye to old ASG leadership
BY JEANETTE WRIGHT
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NEWS EDITOR
Spring term is almost over at Clackamas
Community College and the Associated
Student Governm ent elections are in
progress.
Jairo Rodríguez and Daniel Romero-
Vasquez have served as ASG president
and vice president, for the past year.
The candidates for 2 0 i8 - ’ i9 A S G
p resid en t are Francia Lockerb y, a
current ASG grand senator, and Duncan
Garcia, a current officer of grants.
There are currently no Candidates
for the position o f vice president. A
w rite -in candidate Can be elected to
assum e the position, assum ing they
fu lfill all of the criteria set by the ASG
CCC constitution and bylaws.
V o tin g for the president and vice
president positions began on Sunday
and will close on Friday at 4 p.m . ..
Winners will be announced May 7.
C a n d id a te s fo r th ese p o sitio n s
m ust have served in ASG before, and
gathered student sign aturès before
qualifying to run the race. The election
itself is organized by the current vice
president, but candidates must promote
them selves to students and encourage
students to vote.
Alexa Carrera was the 2016-’17 ASG
vice president and organized last year’s
election.
“ It was a fun process to see my local
ASG peers running for that position,”
Carrerg said. “ It takes a lot of work to
reach out to students and actually talk to
people and know what change they want
to see, so that people who are actually
running for that position can actually
implement those changes once they are
in those positions.”"
Carrera has known Rodríguez since
joining ASG, and saw him go from being
a director of the Multicultural Center to
being the ÁSG president.
“ He really m akes if a goal of his to
advocate for students and represent the
students’ voice,” Carrera said. “ That’ s
what being the president is all about.”
Rodríguez originally didn’t want the
position of president when he ran first
in 2016. .
“ I fe lt that it would b ring all the
attention to me, and I don’ t like being
the center of attention,” Rodríguez said.
“ Once I knew that no-one was going to
run for the position, I felt obligated to
take on the responsibilities because I
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strongly felt that A SG does so m uch for
the cam pus.”
Rodriguez ran for a second year
is still student involvement in ASG.
“ It seems as though many [students]
do not want to participate, and I think
that’s one thing I wish I could’ve figured
out w hy,” Rodriguez said.
Carrera thinks Romero-Vasquez did
a great job as th e ASG vice president
this year.
“ I saw him go from the process of
actually being hired by ASG; to running
for vice president, being vice president
and now coming to the end of his term ,”
said Carrera. “ I ’m really happy w ith
the way h e ’ s grown and developed
as a person and really grown into the
position of V P .”
Being the ASG vice president means
b ein g in vo lved in the in n e rm o st
workings of ASG.
“ Because the VP is directly in charge
of the hiring procedures, and is a lot
more involved with the internal matters
of the ASG CCC office, ASG members
often approach me when They have any
because he knew there was still work questions or concerns that relate to the
to be done.
goals of A S G ,” Romero-Vasquez said.
The president essentially decides the
O verseeing d a y -to -d a y activities
priorities for ASG, who are utilized b y* is a huge part o f the job o f the vice
CCC to provide a student perspective president, said Carerra.
on decisions that happen on campus,
“ It’s a lot of nitty-gritty stuff that we
Rodriguez said.
have to do, w hether it be paperwork,
Looking forward, the biggest challenge or just m aking sure an évent goes as
“I hope the candidates for
the positions continue to
work towards achieving
the goals and continue
building upon the
foundations the ASG team
has set this year.”
-Jairo Rodriguez
planned,” Carrera said.
“ I was able to help so many people
and so many people were able to help
m e, ju st grow ing as an ind ivid ual,”
Carrera said. In terms o f outreach this
year, Carrera said the biggest thing ASG
has done this year is the Sexual Assault'
Awareness M onth (SAAM fevents.
Ju stin B oettcher, A SG Senator of
C a m p u s A ffa ir s , th in k s A S G has
accomplished a lot over the past year,
and that they have grown as a team.
“ We work w ell together, we don’ t
have any d isp u tes,” Boettcher said.
“ There’s always, like, a hovering smile
in the Office.” .
As* A SG m oves forward w ith new
leadership and new priorities, Romero-
V asquez hop es A S G w ill con tin ue
working towards more student outreach.
“ I hope th e can d id ates for the
positions continue to work towards
ach iev in g the goals and con tin ue
b uild in g upon the fou nd ation s the
ASG team has set this year,” Romero-
Vasquez said. x .
R o m ero -V aSq u ez and Rodriguez
are both leaving QCC this year, w ith
R o m ero -V asq u ez tran sferrin g and
Rodriguez graduating.
2017-’18 ASG team in the Fireside Lounge
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