Name: Michelle Haley
Position: ASUO President
Age: 22
Hometown: Junction City, Ore.
Class Standing: Senior
Major: English
Arrests: None
Briefly explain your platform.
We care about five primary things: (1) getting students involved, (2) keeping the 24-hour library, (3) looking at LTD and making funding a priority, (4) seeing the future of this campus thriving, which would include a renovated EMU, a new rec center and seeing the residents halls renovated, (5) addressing the problem with student tickets. It’s a slippery slope, and if we start letting student tickets go and giving them back to the athletic department to sell at full price, we’re going to have trouble getting them back in the future.
What qualities and experience qualify you to be ASUO president?
I’ve been involved for a long time now. I’ve worked as a student employee. I’ve been a part of student group, and I’ve been on the EMU board, and I now chair the EMU board. I was the House committee chair last year, so I had some executive experience and responsibility. But this year I feel like I’m growing into this role. I feel like I know enough about student government that I will be effective and efficient, and I can see the things that need to change, but I also have enough new ideas so it’s not going to be the same thing over and over.
What are your thoughts on the purpose and size of the student incidental fee?
I think the I-fee is too big. I think the purpose is right on, and I think we need to make sure that we’re funding things that aren’t duplicates. We can be creative in our funding. Because we have a surplus in over-realized funds that means we’re not doing something right. I think we can streamline the budgeting process, use the money we need and not charge students so much.
How would you fund the LTD bus service?
I would use the transportation fee.
Do you support extending the 24-hour library program, and if so, how?
I do, and I believe the administration needs to pay for it.
Should OSPIRG return to campus, and if so, what form should it take?
No, I don’t believe OSPIRG should return to campus. I think the things that they do are great, and I think they should seek funding on a state level.

Name: Ted Sebastian
Position: ASUO Vice President
Age: 21
Hometown: West Linn, Ore.
Class Standing: Junior
Major: Sociology
Arrests: None
Briefly explain your platform.
Would like to see more football tickets. Right now, there is only the full alottment for two games a year (OSU and USC). Every game is just as important as those games. Hybrid system for ticketing. Mixed reviews about electronic ticketing system. 24-hour library. LTD, late-night bus service. More student involvement is the final, but really the most important thing. How these student elections work is getting your friends involved. It’s friends of friends that know me and might vote for me. Sad but true. Bigger student government, more positions, less responsibility per position, lower stipends.
What qualities and experience qualify you to be ASUO vice president?
Fee-paying student. Currently the ACFC vice-chair. Was outreach coordinator for ASUO executive staff. Really wanted to make a difference with finances of school.
What are your thoughts on the purpose and size of the student incidental fee?
Too big. Needs to be streamlined, more transparent so students know what they’re paying for, paying it because they want to rather than paying it because they have to.
What do you see as the vice president’s role in the ASUO?
Views self and Haley as a team. Will do as much as he can to help her on issues she cares about. Bike loan program, tickets.
How would you fund the LTD bus service?
Transportation fee, lower group rate pass. We’re all part of this university and if we could group it together it would save students money.
Should OSPIRG return to campus, and if so, what form should it take?
Candidate ran out of time before question could be asked.