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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013
Name: Carolyn Magee
Coeintion: Ad Astra
Hometown: Owerland Par
Major: Pharmacy
Year: Second Year
Pharmacy Student,
4P
She currently serves
as the Membership
Chair for Student
Society of Health
Systems Pharmacists
and as the Historian
Magee
for Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity. She will soon serve as the Vice President of APhA-ASP and has been selected to be initiated into Phla Sigma, the pharmacy leadership society, and Rho Chi, the pharmacy academic honor society. She served as the Vice President of Intellectual Development and as a member of the Chapter Relations and Standards board for Alpha Chi Omega. She hopes to actively represent the School of Pharmacy in student senate.
Name: Bill Wilson
Mark, Viktor
Hometown: Overland
Coalition: KUNited
Major: Pharmacy
Year: First year pharmacy student
Ask any of my friends and they will tell you how much I love school. Yes, that means I am a nerd! KUNited is a great coalition because we
Wilson
are all about improving KU and its student body. What nerd doesn't want to improve school and education?
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFARE:
Name: Anthony Bardley
Hometown: Not submitte
Coalition: Ad Astra
Major: Social Welfare
Year: Junior
As a senator I would
bring experience
and enthusiasm, to
get the school of so-
cial welfare involved
and known campus.
I have been a part
of the bsw student
group since I joined
Bradley
the school and have also been involved in the community. I have been interning this semester at the Ballard center in Lawrence and have previously been involved in hug and create with the Cco. Thank you for your time and support as we strive to get more people involved on campus and serve you as your senators.
Name: Mirel V. Prot
Hometown: Augusta
Councilation: Ad Astra
Major: Social Welfare
Year: Junior
Last semester, I was chosen as one of two replacement senators for the School of Social Welfare and I want to continue to represent this constituency in the upcoming year. I be
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lieve that initiatives proposed by the Ad Astra coalition, such as prioritizing student health and increasing access and accountability within senate, align with the NASW's Code of Ethics and are necessary for affecting students lives in real and meaningful ways.
Not submitted:
Mimi Koppen, KUnited
ON-CAMPUS:
Name: Baran Barani
Hometown: Overland Park
Coalition: KUUnited
Major: Biochemistry
Year: Freshman
I've learned to be a leader by advocating for students.
I'm running for on-campus senator for it
Barani
upcoming year with KUNited because I think that it is pivotal that this huge portion of KU's population is properly represented and heard. Having lived on campus for a year now I know there are issues with on-campus living and my goal is to work with senate to fix these issues and to ensure that students who live on-campus have a voice in our student government system.
Not submitted:
Kim Flanders, Ad Astra
Off-Campus
Name: Elizabeth Erker
Hometown: Omaha, Nc
Coalition: KUNITED
Major: Journalism
Year: Sophomore
I love KU. Student
Senate, oldes, English
classes, and liceo-
理. I am optimistic,
hard working, and
fun-loving. I feel
fortunate to attend
a school where the
student voice has
so much power. Stu
dent Senate is not a resume-builder. It's something I am passionate about. After serving as both a Freshman Senator and an Off-Campus Senator, I feel well-equipped and ready to continue to serve for my remaining time at KU. I hope to earn that privilege with you.
Erker
vote, and to be given the chance to continue KUnited's legacy of progress and success in the coming year.
Name: Aaron Hess
Hometown: Stilwell
Coalition: KUnited
Major: Finance
Year: Sophomore
I am an active member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and hold a leadership position within the house. My home town is Stilwell, KS.
The reason I am involved in KUnited is because I believe the decisions that student senate make should come directly from the voice of the overall student body and not from the individual senators. My goal as a senator will be to make the student body feel like they are involved in the decisions that are made with the money they pay with student fees. I really hope that I can prove myself as a student senator in making this university more student friendly.
Hess
Name: Reid Hildenbrand
Name: Reid Hildenbrand
Hometown: Lawrence
Coalition: Ad Astra
Mission: Help
Coalition: Ad Astra
Major: Accounting
& Finance
Year: Freshman
On campus I'm involved in The Big Event, Hannah and jayhawk Friends, Natural Ties, and Mount Dread Scholars
I often enjoy expressing myself through singing, piano, saxophone, and tuba. Greatest Accomplishment: 4th in the 2nd annual Gardner Edgerton Ping Pong Classic, open doubles recreational division. Reach for the Stars with Reid Hildenbrand.
Hildenbrand
Name: Andrew Litzler
Hometown: Overland Park
Coalition: Independent
Major: Economics and Finance
Year; Freshman
"As a lifelong Jaya-
hawk from the great state of Kansas, the city of Lawrence has always been one of my favorite places.
Since arriving on campus last fall, I made it a personal goo
to leave KU a better place than I found it. Though I still have more than three years to do so, I've begun to get involved through a range of activities. I am a math tutor, a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and a member of the Student Senate Finance Committee. More importantly, however, my lungs have yet to be poisoned (and never will) by the toxic air that emanates from Manhattan, Kansas, and I am of the firm belief that the best thing coming out of Missouri is I-70 West. Rock Chalk!"
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Name: Dan MacMillan
Hometown: Leawood
Coalition: KUnited
Major: Economics and Political Science
Year: Sophomore
After serving as one of the Off-Campus Student Senators in the previous year, I have been given a greater understanding of the logistics of our legislative process, and it has developed me into
MacMillan
Name: Alex Montgomery
Hometown: Mission
Coalition: Ad Astra
Major: Marketing and German
Year: Sophomore
Alex works as the Events Student Co-
ordinator at the Dole Institute of Poli-
Ask, as well as a Desk
Assistant at Hashinger
Residence
Hall. He has been
involved with many
on-campus groups,
including the Dole
Institute Student
Advisory Board, the
Hashinger Arts Council
service projects. Prior to coming to KU, I was Senior Class President, a member of NHS and BBBS as well as having constant involvement in Athletics.
cil, Alternative Breaks, and Marching Band. Alex spent last summer studying abroad in Germany through KU's language program in Eutin, Germany, and will intern this summer through the US Department of State in Skopie, Macedonia.
Name: William Murfir
Hometown: Wichita
Coalition: KUnted
Major: Business
Year: Freshman
I severed as a Freshman
Class Senator,
where I have gain
experience and
exposer to Student
Senate's operation
and function. It has
also given me a ri-
Montgomery
sion of the great things that can be accomplished though student government. I'm currently freshman admit to the School of Business majoring in Administration. My hobbies include aviation, intermural sports and community
Name: Morgan Said
Hometown: Shawnee
Coalition: Ad Astra Major: Journalism Year: Sophomore Always a supporter of change and innovation, Morgan is excited to work alongside the Universe
Murfin
sity's greatest student-leaders to advocate for the greater good of the student body. Morgan is also the Director of Public Relations for the Panhellenic Association at KU.
Said
Not submitted:
Not Sufficited:
Andrew Craig, Independent
Evan Nichols, Ad Astra
MacKenzie Oatman, United
Elle Ternes, Ad Astra
Colin Thomas, Independent
NON-TRADITIONAL
Name: Logan Bayless
Hometown: Great Bend
Coalition: Ad Astra
Major: Global and
International Studie
Year: Junior I am a non-traditional student because I served in the US Army Infantry for four years, included
a tour in Mosul, Iraq, from October 2006 through December 2007. I am majoring in Global and International Studies with a regional focus on Russia and Eastern Europe and a substantive specialization in comparative political and social systems. I am also studying Russian language. Additionally, I am pursuing a minor in Business and working towards completion of the Certificate of Entrepreneurship.
Name: Zach Beardlee
Hometown: Kansas City, Mo
Coalition: KUnited
Major: Political Science
Bayless
Year: Sophomore
I'm a non-traditional student because I currently serve with the Kansas Army National Guard. I want to represent the non-traditional students here at KU.
presence on campus and since these students have more challenges then a normal student and I want to use the power of the student body senate to help these students anyway I can.
Beardslee
Name: Aishie Koehn
Hometown: Burns
Coalition: Ad Astra
Major: Global and International Stud-
fear: Sophomore
Currently, she is serving as a senator for the College of Liberal Arts and Science freshman/sophomore class along with being involved in the Collegiate Veterans Association and the Nontraditional Student Foundation. Additionally, she is a member of KU's Global Scholar's Program and a regional director for the Borgen Project. Ashile is in the Kansas Air National Guard where she serves out of McConnell AFB. In the guard, she has been awarded the Air Force Achievement Medal, Hometown Hero's Award, and recently won Kansas Air National Guard Airman of the Year for 2012. Her motivation to give a voice to the nontraditional community at KU stems not only from her own military service but also from the perspective of coming from a family of nontraditional students of various kinds.
Koehn
Not submitted:
Jeremiah McFerrin, KUnited
INTERNATIONAL:
Major: Economics Year: Junior I'm the President of Grace Pearson scholarship hall and the Social Chair of the International Student Association. I'm also on the cover of the "International Student Living at K"
Name: Dat Hoang
Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
Coalition: KUnited
Major: Economics
Student Living at KU"
brochure. For the last 3 years, I have worked hard to represent international students throughout the campus. I spent 4 semesters working as an Orientation Leader, and I will be a Resident Assistant in the Jayhawker Towers next year.
Name: Tazian Rahm,
Hometown: Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Coalition: KUnited
Major: Political Science and journalism
Year: Junior
The variety of different cultures and the huge international student body that exists at KU has always fascinated me which is why I am running for International Student Senator through KUnited. I have previously been involved with and held officer positions in Douthart Scholarship Hall, All Scholarship Hall Council, and International Student Association. I am currently the Outreach Director of KU Model United Nations and the Vice President of Bangladesh Student Association at KU. I believe all the experiences I have gained from these organizations and my concentration in Political Science make me an eligible candidate for this position and represent the international student body at KU.
Hoang
Jane
Name: Francesco Rossi-Jane
Hometown: Lima, Peru
Hofstreet, UMa, Pe
Coalition: KUNited
Major: Civil Engine-
ering & Business
Administration
Year: Freshman
I am a member of KU
Honors Program,
and of the International
Student Association
(ISA). Last
Rahman
year when I left Peru, I encountered a cultural shock (getting used to different food, different behaviors, and different people). I was scared at the beginning, but it was not as bad as I thought. I met many incredible people from all over the world including China, South Korea, Paraguay, Germany, and many other places. They quickly became my friends, and by getting involved I was able to try new things I never thought of doing before (cutting invasive trees in forest, for example). KU is a place full of great people to meet and with hundreds of opportunities to try new things. Therefore, my goal is, if elected, to create a better campus to promote integration between American and International Students. We are all one big family, we are all part of KU!
Name: Haider Tarar
Name: Haider Tarar
Hometown: Pakistan
Coalition: Ad Astra
Major: Chemical Engineering
Year: Sophomore He has been actively involved in Engineering, serving this year as secretary for American Institute of Chemical Engineers and next year as President of
Tarar
au Beta Pi. He was selected as one of the University Scholars this year and was also awarded an Undergraduate Research Award for doing research in Computational Molecular design. Haider lives in Pearson Scholarship hall where he is on the executive board and also represents Pearson in the All Scholarship Hall Council.
AD ASTRA FROM PAGE 3A
Not submitted:
Zunwu Zhou, Ad Astra
make a decision because I don't want it to be my ideas. I want to make sure that it's actually a group idea that's being represented. As a vice president, literally within Senate, your job is to recognize people as speakers on the floor. I don't just want to recognize people. I want to empower them behind the scenes so that they feel empowered so that they'll speak up and asked to be recognized in the first place. I'm a 'speak up even if your voice shakes' person, but admittedly, my voice does shake when it comes to that.
UDK. One of your platforms is opening up student body access to Student Senate. Is this something you're still focused on? If you are, what are some of the things you're seeing that students would want to talk to you about?
MT: I think just from my experience, there's a lot of students who are surprised real what student fees even are and that they're paying for them, and that they already have really incredible services available to them within that package. Immediately, I think we need to be proactive in engaging those students and opening our doors through social media, through Facebook, through video. We can really have some innovated measure to better inform students of how their fees are used. I think we should be more of an administration that listens to what students have to say. I think we should have our ears open, our doors open, and certainly know that ideas are growth and that ideas don't just stop when you get into the office; ideas continually evolve and students' input into what we're doing is going to make our administration a successful administration. We really depend on students being involved in our process, and for us to be successful, we have
to have our doors open. That's kind of the foundation of how Ad Astra works.
UDK: How do you intend to change the culture of student politics in order to better serve the students?
EH: We're going to codify the changes immediately, like the shortened election season, the transparent caucuses. Those have to be written in, but I think Ad Astra candidates are already going to be changing the system once they get in. We didn't pick people who do Senate as our senators. We picked people who are leaders and who represents the parts of the community already to come in and represent their communities. We're not having people who joined Senate because they like fighting and debating and moving to acclimate. We brought people to Senate because we feel like they have interesting viewpoints, and I think changing the people who are making the decisions is the easiest way to change the culture.
MT. In terms of changing the culture, that's exactly right, bringing new faces and new energies and new perspectives to the table. Our slate does have some experienced student senators, but we also have a lot of people that are, as Emma said, leaders in their communities that have had nothing to do with Student Senate, and I think that good. If we have an election process in place that encourages debate and encourages competition, I think that would engage students, and if more students are engaged, more students would want to be involved. If we had a turnover process where year after year after year, there are some leaders who Student Senate is their thing, but there are a lot of people who want to come into Student Senate might only want to do it for a year. We really want to break down those barriers, make it more inclusive and make students feel like they can be a part of it. Sometimes changing the culture is changing the people.
Closing arguments:
MT: Coming back to election reform, we think this is a precipice for real structural change. We want to change the way our student body is represented through our student government. It's simple. We think that what has been done in the past is largely representative of a single party system, and that breeds this apathy that we see throughout our communities regarding Student Senate. I hope that on April 10 and 11, more people turn out to vote at KU in this election than have ever voted before. That's the goal. The idea is to engage voters, and that means representing those communities and championing what they want to see done. I really want to see a legacy of Ad Astra KU being an increased voter turnout year after year after year. A success for Ad Astra KU is a competitive system that makes students feel like their voice is heard and matters
EH: The bottom line for Ad Astra in addition to democracy is making college cheaper and making Student Senate more diverse. We're going to bring back diversity to Student Senate because that's what it was founded on in the 1970s, and that's what students deserve now as KU is more diverse than it has ever been. It's also just about making college cheaper. We're all here paying [thousands] of dollars to go to KU, but there are real, tangible changes that can be made with a student mandate, like lowering transcript fees, like eliminating the sales tax on textbooks, that can make it cheaper for everyone who's already here and leave a legacy of making college more affordable for the people who can't be here because it's too expensive right now.
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KUNITED FROM PAGE 3A
my high school career and also provide for myself in college and then still make something of myself. I think that my work ethic is incomparable to a lot of my peers and a lot of our peers at the University. I also really like listening. I think that one of my advantages is that I listen to every side of the story or every possible option before making a decision, which I think is something that would transpire very well and transition very well into the role as president, if elected. I think that at times you have your own personal agenda or ideas of how shapes should run, but as an elected official, your job is to listen to those people that are representing the student body, the people that elected you. I think it's very important that you look at every angle and take in every consideration; the pros and cons of everything, before making a decision and moving forward. With that, a weakness, sometimes I do take on too much, and I can spread myself a little thin. My realized very quickly my sophomore year being involved in so many organizations at once which I think that if you don't know that you're taking on too much, sometimes the quality of your work can be partially diminished. I've really used some of the opportunities to find weaknesses in my leadership skills and really turn those into strengths. Identifying what could be improved and not only building on my own personal skills but also polishing and bettering those weaknesses into strengths.
BB: I would say a strength that I have with regard to leadership would be having a vision, and it goes back to that point as far as in this capacity, my vision would be making KU better than when I found it. Along with that vision, I think that it's important to be able to bring a vision out in others and so not only myself seeing an issue that can be worked on or a problem that should be solved, but also going to people who may be quiet and saying, 'Can I hear what your vision is for KU and what changes do you see that need to be made?' I think that's an important part of this process because Student Senate is such a collaborative body that we need to bring out all of those thoughts. On the weakness side, tying into that, sometimes I can get a little set on a solution, and if I think something can solve a problem, I will stick with it. I think bringing those voices in and other opinions and saying maybe someone else's solution might be better than mine is an important trait that I continue working on.
Closing Argument:
BW: We just want people to vote. That's an important part of the process, and I look at recent local elections in Lawrence and the state of Kansas, and we're pretty low. Things that are affecting everyday life of people including students and Student Senate elections are so vital. Just getting people involved with that process is huge, and I would encourage it and think that Brandon would agree that the more people that are willing and able to vote should do so. BB: What's really important to remember is that while we (KUnited) have been here for a number of years, each year we might be identified as the same coalition, but every single year, going back to your question is that the beauty of having new candidates each year at the top of the ticket is that you can bring new ideas and new, fresh faces. I'm really excited that half of our coalition this year, it will be there first time in Student Senate while we also have the other half that are involved currently and have the experience and know how to work with campus administration to get things done. I think that obviously we want people to vote in a certain way, but it's very important to us that the voter turnout is much higher this year and that people, regardless of what coalition they're voting for, really do express their opinion and express who they want to represent them in the following year.
Edited by Jordan Wisdom