Oregon Daily Emerald: Could you tell me your name, what year you are in school, and what your major is?
Pscheid: My name is Julian Pscheid. It’s my second year here but I’m a junior by credit and my major is computer science.
Emerald: Why did you decide to run for this ASUO office?
Pscheid: I am currently involved in my chapter house and in IFC, and I’m gaining lots of leadership experience, and I’m trying to take my experience to the next level and benefit the entire school and the entire student body with my leadership skills, and with my knowledge about the school and my enthusiasm about the school.
Emerald: Do you think it will be difficult to juggle this type of office and your involvement in the greek system?
Pscheid: No, I’m going to be resigning from IFC at the end of my term, so I’ll be concentrating on senate only.
Emerald: Are you involved with any other student groups or anything like that besides IFC or your chapter house?
Pscheid: No, I’m not.
Emerald: How will you figure out how to spend the senate surplus if you are elected?
Pscheid: Well, I’ve always been very open to all student groups on campus and I’m definitely not biased toward anything through my involvement in other student groups, especially the greek system. I will be open and fair towards any student group that comes in for interviews and asks for money.
Emerald: How would you interact with student groups?
Pscheid: Well, I guess there’s a process for that. Just the procedures, interviews, and hearings, basic procedures.
Emerald: What are the most important issues facing the students you would represent if elected?
Pscheid: Current issues? I guess there’s always issues with student groups not being able to get the money they want and being hostile once they don’t get it and taking things on a personal level. Do you want more of a current problem right now?
Emerald: Just what do you think the issues are and how would you resolve them.
Pscheid: Issues, general senate issues? Well, I think integrity, keeping integrity and keeping up the integrity of the senate, especially if it’s attacked by student groups who don’t get their funding. That’s I guess the biggest concern that I would have. If, you know, if student groups don’t get the funding that they want, is that they take stuff to a personal level, and keeping the integrity of the senators and the senate as a whole is probably one of my main issues and concerns.
Emerald: What is the most important thing you should know in order to deal with the budget process?
Pscheid: Definitely the procedures, exactly step-for-step how everything works. As the Emerald wrote two days ago about the process of a student group coming to PFC hearings and not being able to actually get anything other than the hearing, so they just sat in there for two hours without any reason, because they didn’t follow the procedures correctly, they weren’t given the right instructions. So it’s definitely important that everything’s followed step-for-step.
Emerald: How many senators’ votes are needed to submit articles of impeachment against the ASUO president?
Pscheid: I know it’s 10 percent of the student body, their signatures have to be counted before.
Emerald: Well, if you don’t know it off the top of your head, it’s okay. It’s actually (?) of the filled seats. And the final question is, in your opinion, what’s the most important part of section five of the student senate rules and why?
Pscheid: That would be the duties. Well they basically describe the job every senator has to do, so it’s like how many office hours they have to hold each week, what committees they have to serve on, and how many meetings they get to miss. It’s generally just a basic job description, there’s nothing especially, no highlight in there that’s really important, but as a whole it’s just a basic foundation for any senator’s position.
Julian Pscheid’s Interview
Daily Emerald
April 2, 2003
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