Oregon Daily Emerald: For the record, could you spell your name for me?
Guidero: Gabrielle Guidero.
Emerald: What year are you?
Guidero: I’m a junior.
Emerald: What are you majoring in?
Guidero: Geophysics.
Emerald: How come you are running for the ASUO senate position?
Guidero: Well, I am interested in how things work on this campus, and getting involved, and I like to be the one right in the middle, helping to make the decisions, and I think I could help out the science department.
Emerald: Are you a transfer student?
Guidero: I am.
Emerald: Where did you transfer from?
Guidero: Well, I took a couple of years off, but I got my associates from Central Oregon Community College.
Emerald: Are you affiliated with any groups or activities on campus or in the community?
Guidero: Well, I do a little here or there.
Emerald: But no formal organizations?
Guidero: I am. College Republicans.
Emerald: OK. So the questions that I have to ask you: How will you figure out how to spend the surplus that the senate is in charge of dispersing?
Guidero: Well I’d like to see it go toward — of course I’d like to see it evenly dispersed over a variety of activities — to things that will impact a lot of different groups, not just one or two.
Emerald: What sort of areas would you like to see focused on that have been overlooked in the past, or are there any type of group or organization that you feel has received more than it’s fair share of funding?
Guidero: As far as spending the surplus or just in general?
Emerald: How about as far as spending the surplus, for now.
Guidero: OK, I don’t know, I see that things are covered the way that kind of that they should be covered in a university. I’d like to see a real variety of speakers brought in. I really like speakers.
Emerald: Anybody in particular?
Guidero: You know, I haven’t really sat down and thought about it, but I would love to see a diverse speakers series.
Emerald: How will you interact with student groups?
Guidero: Thoroughly and evenly.
Emerald: Do you have any special place in your heart for academic groups over athletics?
Guidero: No, I think they definitely all have their place in a university setting.
Emerald: What do you feel are the most important issues facing the students that you would represent as a senator?
Guidero: Well, since I’m the science senator, I am not sure what all the issues are yet. I really want to get involved and talk to people and find out what the issues are. It’s kind of early in the campaign season.
Emerald: How are you going to do that?
Guidero: Bring some attention to the science department. I’m a little outspoken, I am sure I can find some ways.
Emerald: How are you going to go about investigating the issues that you want to focus on?
Guidero: I’ve actually been talking to a lot of my fellow students and teachers. I need to branch out. I started in the geology department, of course, because that’s where I am every day. And I was planning on talking to at least some of my classmates, walking down the hall and introducing myself to some instructors, and I’ve been asking a lot of questions: ‘So what is the science academic senator do for you?’ and the response has mainly been ‘There is one?’ So I’d like to see that change.
Emerald: Is there anything you’d do differently to make that academic science senator seat more involved? Any one thing that you would like to do to make that a more well-known position?
Guidero: Let people know who I am, that I am available to talk, to do… I don’t know how much power exactly I would have within the senate, I mean, it’s — I’ll do what I can.
Emerald: What’s the most important part of section 5 of the student senate rules and why?
Guidero: Well, I think every senator should fulfill their duties. And students didn’t elect you to not be there.
Emerald: Just also, I am just interested. What do you plan on doing after you graduate with your geophysics major — what do you do with that?
Guidero: Well I am interested in possibly working for the Forest Service. I find out in April whether or I got. It’s an internship-type position, in the SCEP program.
Emerald: Oh, I applied for one of those, actually.
Guidero: Yeah, I’m very excited about that because that would give me a career after college. But barring that I would apply to the Forest Service in other ways. Working for the government is probably fairly high on my list, or else working for a private engineering type firm or something evaluating environmental hazards dealing with geology.
Emerald: OK, fabulous. Is there anything else that you want the editorial board to hear?
Guidero: Well, I think I’d be a good pick. I’m ready to get in there and put a lot of time into it. I never do any project without being there 110 percent, so I don’t think this would be any different.
Emerald: Awesome, thanks.