2008 Woodie Awards
Candidates for Vice President
Jarrod Russell and Robert Van Noord
Issue date: 3/29/06 Section: ASI Elections
Jarrod Russell
My name is Jarrod Russell and I am running for Executive Vice President. I am a junior, majoring in Political Science. I believe I am very qualified for this position due to my past leadership experience, current involvement with the school and with city, county and state wide politics. I was ASB president in high school, which opened up a surplus of opportunities for me before entering college. I attended a National Youth Leadership Conference in Washington DC, and lobbied for higher education, and for nationwide college support. I attended a CADA Camp, and Rotary Club Camp, both teaching me about education, and the importance of having a structured planned out education before coming to, and while attending college. This year I served as the University Affairs Director organizing committees on campus. All of which dealt with different issues regarding our experience and learning styles. If elected I plan on working on making a vote and voice count in the Academic Senate, keeping our relationship with our academic administration strong, and participating with many different academic committees, to ensure that we are getting all that we can out of our experience here. I plan on picking up where our current Executive Vice President has left off on various resolutions one being the course repeat policy. Of course I would also listen to your views and ideas as my position deals with you, the student body, in a direct manner.
Robert Van Noord
Greeting gentleman or gentlewoman. My name is Robert Van Noord, and I am running for ASI vice-president of Sonoma State University. I plan to act as a facilitator between the students voice and that of corporation of Sonoma State. Lets create a strategy that works for every one. It is always difficult to create approaches toward education where everyone can be comfortable. However lets begin the conversation, lets talk about where our priorities are. I think that one of the only ways to accurately portray the needs and wants of the school is if everyone that is part of the whole of SSU speaks, writes… communicates, what it is that is on our minds and hearts. Money is of course a key player when reaching for our desires in this world, and in this school. It cannot be ignored, but let us take as much of our dependence away from money as we can in this school. To do this I think the most important steps to take for the school and for the individual is that we reduce, reuse, and recycle, with all aspects of our being. I also would like to remind you, as I remind myself, that everything is a process. If we have goals and hopes for our future and for future generations, we must be aware of our present and the state that we are at in order to realize our aspirations for the future. Change of any kind takes time and it is always evolving within the time it takes. We are all in this together, and all are a piece of the whole.
My name is Jarrod Russell and I am running for Executive Vice President. I am a junior, majoring in Political Science. I believe I am very qualified for this position due to my past leadership experience, current involvement with the school and with city, county and state wide politics. I was ASB president in high school, which opened up a surplus of opportunities for me before entering college. I attended a National Youth Leadership Conference in Washington DC, and lobbied for higher education, and for nationwide college support. I attended a CADA Camp, and Rotary Club Camp, both teaching me about education, and the importance of having a structured planned out education before coming to, and while attending college. This year I served as the University Affairs Director organizing committees on campus. All of which dealt with different issues regarding our experience and learning styles. If elected I plan on working on making a vote and voice count in the Academic Senate, keeping our relationship with our academic administration strong, and participating with many different academic committees, to ensure that we are getting all that we can out of our experience here. I plan on picking up where our current Executive Vice President has left off on various resolutions one being the course repeat policy. Of course I would also listen to your views and ideas as my position deals with you, the student body, in a direct manner.
Robert Van Noord
Greeting gentleman or gentlewoman. My name is Robert Van Noord, and I am running for ASI vice-president of Sonoma State University. I plan to act as a facilitator between the students voice and that of corporation of Sonoma State. Lets create a strategy that works for every one. It is always difficult to create approaches toward education where everyone can be comfortable. However lets begin the conversation, lets talk about where our priorities are. I think that one of the only ways to accurately portray the needs and wants of the school is if everyone that is part of the whole of SSU speaks, writes… communicates, what it is that is on our minds and hearts. Money is of course a key player when reaching for our desires in this world, and in this school. It cannot be ignored, but let us take as much of our dependence away from money as we can in this school. To do this I think the most important steps to take for the school and for the individual is that we reduce, reuse, and recycle, with all aspects of our being. I also would like to remind you, as I remind myself, that everything is a process. If we have goals and hopes for our future and for future generations, we must be aware of our present and the state that we are at in order to realize our aspirations for the future. Change of any kind takes time and it is always evolving within the time it takes. We are all in this together, and all are a piece of the whole.