Name: Matt Hoffman
Position: Senate Seat 14 (social sciences 2 yr.)
Age: 21
Hometown: Rogue River, Ore.
Class Standing: Junior
Major: English and history
Arrests: None
Platform:
Supports departmentalization of ethnic studies, believes students should play a role in recruitment and retention of faculty, supports reduced textbook cost program, peer writing collaboration center in English department.
Qualifications:
Avid reader of campus news, dedicated to campus and issues that affect students, level-headed, president of groups in high school, president of residence hall as a freshman, member of Oregon Sailing Team, elected co-director of Clark Honors College student association.
How to increase interest in the ASUO to ensure quality candidates for open positions:
E-mail system, Web sites, weekly radio show, downloadable podcasts, all to increase student involvement.
Current student oversight of the Student Recreation Center:
Believes taking SRC off incidental fee will allow the ASUO to focus on student programs.
Student government expansion:
Absolutely, the changes will lessen the burden to the PFC and will increase the detail in which they examine budgets.
Changes to student athletic ticket distribution:
No time left.