Oregon Daily Emerald: Tell me a little bit about yourself.
Stefan Myers: Okey doke, want me to skim over…
Emerald: Yeah, brief. Just a couple minutes is fine.
Myers: Cool. Born and raised, Canby Oregon, went to Canby High School, transferred to Clackamas Community College, did leadership in high school, did more student government at Clackamas, was on legislature, and then ASU president there, moved on — then moved on to University of Oregon, transferred with an Associate of Arts transfer degree. And now at UO was hired on as the ASUO legislature senator for the ASUO. And actually applied for the marketing director position and the public relations position and now serving currently in that position. And that would be where we’re at now.
Emerald: OK. How would you figure out how to spend the surplus?
Myers: Yeah, as I was saying before, the surplus I think is going to be instrumental, and one of the things I thought about was that with, you know, the fee constantly being under attack and being scrutinized and looked at, it’s important to spend it on the growth of good programs to make sure that they still have a strong presence on campus as well as making sure that we invest those in programs that are showing positive growth and that are working on becoming better programs. That way when we have strong unions and programs it leads to better reasons and better shows off what the marketplace of ideas can really bring to the table and how strong those are and brings on less scrutiny.
Emerald: How will you interact with student groups?
Myers: Interacting with student groups. From my experience at Clackamas Community College as president there, it’s first understanding the difference in all the groups and recognizing those and appreciating those and moving onto to — I’m really more of a personal interactor, and personally interacting with different groups, going to their meetings and just meeting with those individuals and leaders in those positions as well as some of the other areas on campus that are harder, sometimes especially in the journalism school, to interact with, maybe really utilizing different electric mediums, from e-mail to other things to keep in contact in for, for outlets for specifically journalisms students to voice opinions and concerns about their programs and the school in general.
Emerald: What are the most important issues facing the students you represent?
Myers: Important issues coming up are going to be definitely the defense of the student fee and really legitimizing how important that is on our campus and what that brings to our campus communities. Also our, as always, our interaction with our administration, whether it be positive or negative, really having strong leaders in those positions to work out those problems or to work out opportunities, as well… just basically interaction and communication with our departments and with our leadership positions at the school to make sure the student voice is being heard and that we have a say in everything that’s going on.
Emerald: What’s the most important part of section 5 of the student senate rules and why?
Myers: I would say the most important part would have to be, definitely the appointment to student faculty committees and especially to academic seats because those are going to really important to having student voices in, with, how our programs, classes and basically our whole college’s future is going to be.
Emerald: OK, that’s all.