Chess Patricolo
Age: 19
Major: Planning, public policy and management
Hometown: Portland, Oregon
Year: Freshman
Emerald: Platform summary, what do you hope to accomplish?
Patricolo: I hope to fairly allocate space in the EMU to different organizations and make sure that everyone gets a good opportunity at having space at the EMU.
Emerald: What’s your background? What qualifies you for this position?
Patricolo: I’m really active politically. I registered voters in the New Voters Project over the summer for about three months, and I worked with the National Democratic Party of Oregon on the Kerry campaign. I’m also a very active volunteer with Planned Parenthood and I like being involved in planning. That’s also my major.
Emerald: OK, so why do you want this job?
Patricolo: I think it would be a huge growing experience. I’d learn a lot. I’d get to practice a lot of planning skills, a lot of working with other people skills that I could really use in my life working with my major. I think I could really help the EMU with what I bring.
Emerald: In light of the ASUO retreat to Sunriver, Ore., what is the best way to ensure proper accountability from student leaders next year?
Patricolo: Um, well, being a freshman I don’t know so much about what has happened last year.
Emerald: It was just this fall, I guess.
Patricolo: Well, to make sure that, the question was to make sure that people have responsibility? That would be my answer. I think if people take greater responsibility for their actions, their ideas, their roles that they have, then things can be solved a lot easier. People need to take responsibility for decisions.
Emerald: How feasible is the five-year EMU Master Plan? How would you facilitate it?
Patricolo: How feasible is it? I don’t know how feasible it is. I would facilitate it by laying out everything that would need to happen step by step in order to make it feasible and, you know, the major thing about that would be coming up with a distinct plan that would be flexible so that we could see what the future would look like projected.
Emerald: Do you know anything about what’s been done on the plan to date?
Patricolo: No, not really.
Emerald: All right, well, that’s the end of my list.