Two students are running for ASUO Student Senate Seat 7, which includes duties on the senate and the Athletic Department Finance Committee. The ADFC is responsible for working with the University’s Athletic Department to provide free student tickets at some sporting events.
The Emerald asked candidates four general questions and also two specific questions about student government: What is the senate’s quorum requirement to elect
officers (answer: 14), and what is the most important part of Senate Rules Section 5, which lists senators’ duties?
Andrew Faust did not respond to repeated requests for an interview.
Laura Schulthies is a junior journalism major. She didn’t know the senate’s quorum requirement to elect officers, but she did know that Senate Rules Section 5 included senate duties.
Q: How will you figure out how to spend the surplus?
Schulthies: Well, I want to work with the girl who is currently holding the office. And I’m going to try and attend some of their current meetings to see where they’re going, because I know that they have already established a plan. And a source to where they want to work in the same direction and deal with the same people and just continue their goals. So I want to be able to go in, take over what they’re doing and just do the best that I can and try to make it — you know, make the funds go as far as they can and be as effective as they can be.
Q: How do you plan on interacting with student groups?
Schulthies: Well, I know a lot of people in greek life and also in other different groups around the University, and so I would just really pick up my involvement with them and maybe try and contact them on a monthly basis see how they feel about what’s going on and if they’re informed on it. Just try to keep everybody up to date on what’s going on. So they appreciate it more and understand it better.
Q: What are the most important issues facing the students you’d represent?
Schulthies: Well, athletes have a lot of issues in my opinion. They are always in all of our sports that are presented by the University and also the Club Sports, they’re always pushing for more funds and stretching their budgets as much as they can just because we are limited to the funds that we’re allotted. And so really I would just try to find out what their biggest needs are and what their biggest concerns are and meet those to the best of my ability.
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Schulthies’ Interview
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