Cory is a 19-year-old freshman business major.
Oregon Daily Emerald: Why are you running for PFC at large?
Cory Phillips: I really wanted to do something with the programs, and with a running position in mind, just wanted to do something with the programs and saw the business and thought it was easy going, I really like the programs on campus I think they’re really cool I don’t know any other campus that has programs as wide ranged as the University of Oregon and, I don’t know, just give me a chance to get involved — rather than just going to a university, being a part of a university.
Emerald: How would you interact with student groups?
Phillips: How will I interact?
Emerald: Yeah.
Phillips: Personally, I’d just like to be a part of more student groups on campus. Just, like, get involved. That’s just kind of like something I’d like to get involved in and, like I said, I’d like to see the programs you know succeed go far do well and, like I said, I looked at a bunch of campuses and there are a 120 programs on campus and that’s just like amazing, so I think that’s really cool.
Emerald: So but if you were, say elected, how would you deal with the student groups?
Phillips: How would I… ?
Emerald: How would you interact with, say somebody comes up to you from OSPIRG and starts talking to you, how would you interact with that student from that group?
Phillips: I mean, I’d want to know what they’re up to, what they are — what they do on campus, because honestly I don’t know what 120 programs do on campus, so I’d want to know what they’re about what they’re into what the University can do to support them I think that’s key to help them succeed.
Emerald: What are the most important issues facing the student groups you would represent?
Phillips: Probably the things that they do and how the University how people perceive them. Like OSPIRG happens to be an organization — just to look at that organization, they do a lot of protesting, they’re a very politically active group on campus and just seeing that they do positive for the University.
Emerald: What is the most important thing you should know in order to deal with the budget process?
Phillips: Like I said, probably what every program, what every organization, is about I think that’s key to understanding — understanding their goals, understanding what economic needs they have.
Emerald: Who does the PFC submit their budgeting benchmark to?
Phillips: The PFC or the ASUO?
Emerald: The PFC.
Phillips: I’m not sure, honestly.
Emerald: What’s the most important part of section 5 of the ASUO PFC bylaws in your opinion?
Phillips: Of the which section?
Emerald: Section 4 in the Green Tape notebook.
Phillips: Can I look at my notebook real quick?
Emerald: Do you have it with you?
Phillips: Yeah, I do.
Emerald: If you want to, I mean … it’s up to you.
Phillips: Because, honestly, I don’t have what each section is about. Right. Candidate qualifications?
Emerald: Section 4?
Phillips: Yeah.
Emerald: With PFC bylaws, no…
Phillips: Oh, I don’t even know what that section is.
Emerald: There is a separate, the ASUO Program Finance Committee bylaws which is the Green Tape notebook. Why do you want to be in this position?
Phillips: Like I said, I think a lot of people go to a university feeling like they just go to the university. It would be cool to be a part of the University, be a part of life, and like I said, I think the programs are really cool, like OSPIRG and all those programs. I mean, like, I just think that’s a really neat opportunity for a lot of students and like, you, know you can just come here every day and just go to classes and it’s going to be the same in every university and it makes university life a whole lot better, a lot funner, for students.
Emerald: You said you really enjoyed programs here on campus — do you understand how PFC works?
Phillips: Yeah.
Emerald: Do you think that that would be a personal bias against any group? Like if a group came up and asked for money and you didn’t really know about them or weren’t in agreement with them, do you think there would be personal bias?
Phillips: No, no. My personal views or my political views pretty much have nothing to do with my position. Like I said, it’s important, there’s an aspect for every student to matter what your political views are or anything, it’s important that everybody has a group to be a part of at the University campus.