Three Look to Presidency

Judith Martinez Ryan Smart
"Find the You in SCU."

Both candidates on the Martinez-Smart ticket are hoping to return to Associated Student Government after coming back from study abroad trips this past year.

Their platform, "Do the You in SCU," is based on a plan for a series of themes to bring out engagement from students with the community. Each quarter has a theme in the platform: Define, Refine and Combine.

Some of their ideas include bringing the Registered Student Organizations into the campus community the way that the larger-budgeted Chartered Student Organizations are. The candidates want to highlight a club each week and to include the RSOs in the annual student organization retreat. They hope these developments can bring more interest to RSOs.

The pair also wants to add an alumni speaker series in conjunction with the Alumni Association, as well as develop discussion events for each major. They hope that bringing networking to specific interests will encourage engagement in the community.

Ben Frazier Max Wahl
"Outreach, Alumni, Spirit, Innovation and Safety."

Ben Frazier and Max Wahl are returning veterans from Associated Student Government, serving in a variety of positions over the last three years.

The Frazier/Wahl OASIS platform is based on the primary goal of increasing ASG's outreach to the student body by boosting interaction with students.

Frazier and Wahl also want to make school spirit stronger on the Mission Campus. Spirit is high at orientation, according to Wahl, but diminishes throughout the year except for a few key events, such as the Gonzaga game.

The candidates think that they can turn this around by increasing presence by student organizations at sporting events and school spirit events, such as put on by the Activities Programming Board.

Also in their platform is a continued emphasis on safety, a concern that has been raised in the past year by a handful of highly publicized confrontations off campus.

Charles Wyman Suzanne Azpeitia
"The perfect combination. The perfect year."

This ticket comes from a mixed background of student government experience: Charles Wyman is coming off of a year with Associated Student Government, while Suzanne Azpeitia is bringing her ideas from her experiences as a member of the general student body.

Much of their platform is based on ideas to bridge off-campus life with the on-campus community experience. Both Wyman and Azpeitia live off-campus, and think the community experience can be strengthened.

One idea is too work with the Residential Learning Community Association to develop events that can keep off-campus upperclassmen connected to their RLCs. Potential events could be a monthly coffee meeting to strengthen bonds between broncos.

Another proposed program would be to assign "buddy houses" of off-campus upperclassmen to underclassmen who are planning to move out of the dorms and prepare them for the challenges of off-campus life.