Reinier Daniel Heyden
Age: 22
Major: Economics and Japanese
Hometown: Hillsboro, Oregon
Year: Senior
Emerald: What is your platform summary?
Heyden: Personally or as a group?
Emerald: We will go with personally.
Heyden: Personally, I want to be a responsive and active member of the campus community. I want to be in the position to help and find needs within the community so that students can get the most value of their student incidental fees. I feel like since I’m running for, the EMU is a very important place and I believe something like 40 percent of student incidental fees go to the EMU … it’s a great place to connect with people and share interests and I feel that that is very important and critical and I would not ever want to lose that. I want to see that kept up.
Emerald: What is your background or why would you say you are qualified for this position?
Heyden: I feel that I have a lot of experience being on campus and connecting, being here for four years and having had studied abroad. And I have a real openness to a variety of different groups of people, to the international students, to people in each department that I have participated in, the honors college. I feel like its important for me to be connected with these people and to be, to find out what’s going on on campus, and be integrated with the community
Emerald: Why do you want the job?
Heyden: I want the job to gain experience, especially with managing important financial matters. My economic concentration is in banking and finance. I felt like being, working as a team with a group would be a good experience as an example, like a corporation using that experience. And I feel like I have lots of skills to bring to the table. I think that I could really benefit the student body.
Emerald: In light of the ASUO student retreat to Sunriver, what is the best way to ensure proper accountability from student leaders next year?
Heyden: Well I feel that there has been a really change in the atmosphere among everybody involved with the ASUO. They are very concerned and very careful. I feel like, I think people have had enough of that sort of thing as long as paperwork and regulations are followed and that the rules are in place and enforced properly we shouldn’t have the problem again.
Emerald: How feasible is the five-year EMU Master Plan? How would you facilitate it?
Heyden: The five year master plan? Ohhhh.