PRESIDENT
Alyssa Gelinas
Year: Freshman
Major: Nursing
Current Position: None
Platform: Petition the state of California to freeze tuition for California colleges.
Bring Warped Tour back to Cal State Long Beach.
Lucy Nguyen
Year: Junior
Major: Business marketing
Current Position: ASI vice president
Platform: Fight for higher education. Make CSULB a more “green” campus.
VICE PRESIDENT
Melissa Molina
Year: Senior
Major: Nutrition and dietetics
Current Position: None
Platform: Bring healthier foods to the University Student Union. Encourage program director to host more entertainment events on campus.
Stephen Thomas
Year: Junior
Major: Business management
Current Position: Senator, College of Business Administration
Platform: Develop student advocacy. Improve campus through green initiatives.
TREASURER
Justin Lawson
Year: Junior
Major: Political science
Current Position: Secretary of system-wide affairs
Platform: Improve communication with student organizations. Make financial documents more accessible.
Michael Quibuyen
Year: Senior
Major: Environmental science and policy
Current Position: Senator, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Platform: Create new scholarships and sources of funding. Revise and utilize a new funding system.
USU BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Raveena Gill
Year: Freshman
Major: Biology
Current Position: None
Platform: “I will consider and investigate policies, budget and other decisions in full detail with respect to the comfort and benefit of the university students.”
Dalia Hernandez
No platform was provided by the candidate
Austin Metoyer
Year: Senior
Major: Not provided
Current Position: Chief of staff
Platform: “As chief of staff for 2010-11, I served as the AS President’s designee to the general Board as well as the subcommittees. Doing so has provided me with valuable insight to how Board of Trustees meetings operate and coordinate with various AS staff members.”
Asha Nettles
Year: Senior
Major: Not provided
Current Position: Chair of the USU Board of Trustees
Platform: “Upon compiling the budget every spring, I would make sure that student union fees are being used efficiently so that both properties continue to provide service that meets the needs of students.”
ACADEMIC SENATE REPRESENTATIVE
Noor Altoma
Year: Junior
Major: Sociology
Platform: “My goal is to get students to be better informed while having their voices be heard.”
James Suazo
Year: Junior
Major: English education
Platform: “I am running for Academic Senator because the student body needs a strong student advocate in our University’s Academic Senate, especially during this convoluted and rapidly changing financial climate.”
SENATORS
COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Jessica Garcia
Year: Sophomore
Major: Theatre arts
Platform: “As Senator of the College of the Arts, I would actively oppose any future budget cuts our College might face in order to encourage our artists to create rather than worry about another financial burden.”
*Jorge Soriano
Year: Sophomore
Major: Theater arts and Chinese studies
Platform: “I intend to seek out these challenges and work towards solutions in hopes that we artists can continue to refine our individual crafts unhindered by concerns with workspace, equipment, patronage and the like.”
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Jessica Avila
Year: Sophomore
Major: Not provided
Platform: “Whether it entails the college as a whole, or the needs of individual organizations, societies and students, I can and will take action to ensure that our college is not forgotten and lost among the rest.”
Zachary Bales
Year: Junior
Major: Not provided
Platform: “As Senator for The College of Engineering, my objectives would be taking a strong stance on budget cuts and other issues that affect students within the College of Engineering.”
Timothy Driscoll
Year: Freshman
Major: Not provided
Platform: “I am willing and able to battle for funding against budget cuts, especially in our current economy.”
Meron Reda
Year: Junior
Major: Electrical engineering
Platform: “As a Senator, I will address the following issues: Increased tuition, reduction of class sections, class cancellations due to low enrollment and lack of supplies and resources.”
*Jacob Rice
Year: Junior
Major: Electrical engineering
Platform: “I also want to continue in my push to have the tuition and fees that are paid by the students spent in ways that most benefit students, such as student-run projects and events that can provide networking opportunities and real world experience in technical fields such as engineering.”
COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Taylor McWilliams
Year: Junior
Platform: “As a senator, I will lobby for change. I feel that you should not have to stand up during a lecture because all of the seats are taken.”
Manuel Nieto
Year: Freshman
Major: Biology
Platform: “I would make every effort to make more class section available to all science and math majors.”
Alex Sanchez
Year: Sophomore
Major: Applied math for science and engineering
Platform: “I would make sure that all students have access to plenty of quality on-campus tutors who can help improve any deteriorating math grade.”
COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Jessica Corral
Year: Sophomore
Major: Not provided
Platform: “Ultimately one could say, as students, our immediate need is to have an amazing school year filled with learning and camaraderie with others. I would take action by making sure students are aware of all the special programs offered here on campus.”
Lizelle Felix
Year: Freshman
Major: Nursing
Platform:”As Senator of the College of Health and Human Services, my main goal is to unite all the differing majors by finding a common ground.”
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
*George Lam
Year: Senior
Major: Psychology
Platform: “As the Senator for the College of Liberal Arts, I will continue to promote advocacy to students.”
Robert Lane
Year: Junior
Major: Political science
Platform: “Some areas that I will work to improve the student body include: Creating greater communication and transparency on the actions of the Associated Students to the students they serve, improving the lobbying by [ASI] and working to improve communication of events, scholarships and any other programs that the ASI funds and organizes.”
Sagar Ramachandra
No platform was provided.
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Joe Espeleta
Year: Junior
Major: Not provided
Platform: “As Senator of the College of Business, it will be my priority to take a
strong stance against further budget cuts and other issues that, in turn, would deteriorate the educational opportunities at CSULB.”
Te-Kai Shang
Year: Sophomore
Major: Not provided
Platform: “As Senator of the College of Business, my objective is: To provide more scholarships for both native and international students in order to help them out with the increase of tuition, to provide more internships and working opportunities for students to build up their skills in order to be hired by top employers or admitted in graduate programs, to provide more opportunities for students who want to study abroad in other countries and to provide review sessions for certain majors that require licenses, such as CPA for accounting.”
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Rosa Valle
Year: Junior
Major: Not provided
Platform: “My platform includes being president of Student Support Services Program, as well as being a member of CSULB’s Educational Opportunities Program, engaging in community service in Long Beach, and being in the process of completing CSULB’s Leadership Academy to enhance my leadership skills.”
SENATOR-AT-LARGE
*Ojaala Ahmad
Year: Not provided
Major: International studies
Platform: “My ideology as a leader is ‘Living to Serve Others.’ If granted the opportunity to represent you, my persistent aim will be to ensure that CSULB gets the most out of my leadership abilities.”
*Dylan Bishop
Year: Sophomore
Major: Business management
Platform: “To achieve this vision, my proposal is to advocate on current issues concerning tuition and other issues regarding higher education in California, while educating students on how to get involved in lobby efforts from The Beach to Capitol Hill.”
Jalen Black
Year: Freshman
Major: Not provided
Platform: “As Associated Students senator-at-large, my main goal would be to be the voice of the underrepresented students here on this campus. My next goal would be to take initiative on the issues that create difficulties for all students.”
Craig Hipp
Year: Freshman
Major: Not provided
Platform: “As the new senator-at-large, I would find inefficiencies in the school and appropriate the funds to satisfy the needs of the student body. I would help the student body worry less about their financial issues so they can focus more on their studies.”
Jason Neas
Year: Junior
Major: Not provided
Platform: “As senator-at-large, I would promote the welfare of the student above all else. I would encourage an environment of transparency and access in which students feel that they have a measure of control over the educations they have worked so hard to acquire.”
Uzo Umeh
Year: Junior
Major: Not provided
Platform: “As senator-at-large, my goals would be the college at large. Working with my school as a whole — faculty, administrators and, most importantly, the students — to find ways they could get more from their college.”
Trevon Williams
Year: Not provided
Major: Not provided
Platform: “Some immediate needs facing CSULB students are ASI representatives not representing the students, lack of classes that are available and students being left out in the decision-making process. I would address these issues by putting students first, listening to what my constituency has to say and being a loud voice to strategically fight for students’ needs.”
BALLOT MEASURES
Measure 1: Student referendum – “Bring Back 49er Football”
Shall reinstate football for competition in the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), as well as NCAA women’s crew, lacrosse and field hockey by a student activity fee established in the amount of $86 per semester, phased over five years. The vote would be nonbinding.
A “Yes” vote would signify a recommendation being forwarded to President F. King Alexander to establish a new mandatory student fee to reinstate football for competition in the National Collegiate Athletics Association, as well as NCAA women’s crew, lacrosse and field hockey.
A “No” vote would indicate no recommendation to Alexander.
Measure 2: Senate referendum seeking approval to amend the Associated Students Bylaws, Chapter 1
Passage would grant voting rights to two non-voting members — a faculty representative and a representative of the university president — on the ASI Board of Directors and allow designating an officer to serve as the secretary of the corporation. In 2009, an assembly bill passed requiring all members of a nonprofit corporation’s Board of Directors to have voting rights in the organization. Such an amendment would need to be submitted for student approval and approved by a two-thirds majority of student voters to go into effect.
A “Yes” vote would be voting so AS Bylaws will be amended as stated above to comply with the current California Nonprofit Law.
A “No” vote would be voting against bylaws to be amended to comply with the current California Nonprofit Law.
* denotes incumbents
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