Oregon Daily Emerald: All right, can you give me your name, your major, where you’re from, background info?
Patrick Sullivan: Patrick Sullivan, I’m a business major. From San Diego, Calif. This is my first term here at UO. I’m a transfer student from Purdue. Am a sophomore. Anything else you can think of?
Emerald: How old are you?
Sullivan: 19 going on 20.
Emerald: 19 going on 20?
Sullivan: When’s this coming out? This coming out next term?
Emerald: Yeah, beginning of next term.
Sullivan: 20.
Emerald: All right. We have some general questions. And what position are you applying for?
Sullivan: Seat 9, that would be athletics finance committee, I believe.
Emerald: I think you’re right.
Sullivan: Athletics finance committee or something.
Emerald: Or something along those lines. All right, this will only take like 15 minutes.
Sullivan: OK.
Emerald: So, how will you figure out how to spend the surplus that is part of senate?
Sullivan: To be honest, I haven’t looked at the finances yet. But, I just evaluate them to see how — what areas are running efficiently, which ones aren’t, and just go from there. I haven’t looked in detail at the books. Yet.
Emerald: So you think you’ll base it on how they’re running, or …
Sullivan: It would depend on what I, or what seems in the best interest of the student body. And, if there’s some area that is obviously lacking, probably get more funding into that and take it from the ones that aren’t and try to make everything run more efficiently.
Emerald: OK. All right. How do you plan on interacting with student groups?
Sullivan: With student groups? Meeting with them. Obviously.
Emerald: Like one on one, or…?
Sullivan: It’d be one — I plan on doing it one-on-one with whichever committee member of the groups would be dealing with the financing and dealing with stuff, whoever deals with the financing knows their needs.
Emerald: What do you think are the most important issues facing the students that you would be representing?
Sullivan: Making sure the incidental fee gets used efficiently and in their best interest instead of being wasted. And try to make it so they get the most benefit possible out of what they’re paying.
Emerald: OK. What do you think is the most important thing you should know in order to deal with the budget process?
Sullivan: The most important thing to know? I would say to figure out how it’s being used currently. And evaluate it, find out what’s working right now, what needs improvement and go from there. Find out what’s creating the most benefits and what’s creating externalities.
Emerald: All right. Who is responsible for the payment of stipends to senators? This is straight out of the duties section of your book.
Sullivan: To be honest I haven’t looked at the rules. I just looked at the election rules for now.
Emerald: OK. It’s the senate president and the vice president. What’s the most important part of section 4 of the ASUO PFC bylaws and why?
Sullivan: No comment.
Emerald: The ASUO bylaws are your duties and that kind of thing and are going to be important. So you should probably look at those.
Sullivan: Yeah. I just realized I wanted to do this a couple days ago.
Emerald: I think that’s it. We’re done, real easy.