2 sga@iit.edu TechNews | Tuesday, April3, 2012 TechNews STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SINCE 1928 McCormick Tribune Campus Center Room 221 3201 South State Street Chicago, Illinois 60616 E-mail: editor@technewsiit.com Website: http://www.technewsiit.com TECHNEWS STAFF Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Ryan Kamphuis Hannah Larson Opinion Editor Mike Pu rdy Campus Editor Utsav Gandhi A8E Editor Ryan Hynes Sports Editor Melanie Koto Chris Roberts Kori Bowns Karthik Kumar Swasti Khuntia Chris Roberts Pranava Teja Surukuchi Copy Editor Layout Editors Art Editor Adin Goings Distribution Manager Mike Pu rdy Business Manager Ryan Kamphuis IT Manager Pranava Teja Surukuchi Financial Advisor Vickie Tolbert Faculty Advisor Gregory Pulliam MISSION STATEMENT The mission of TechNews is to promote student discussion and bolster the IIT community by providing a newspaper that is highly accessible, a stalwart of journalistic integrity, and a student forum. 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I would also like to hold forums, similar to what we host with the President and Provost, but with SGA members taking suggestions and answering questions. I plan to encourage the kind of communication that I have been upholding through- out the year as VP of communications among all members of SGA. I am a student who has experienced many sides of the story at IIT, involved, happy, unsatisfied, and proactive. I know where students are coming from because I can relate. What issues or goals would you like to tackle and how do you plan to accomplish them? My main goal is to be an advocate for positive change at IIT. That can go in a lot of different directions, but one ob- jective I’d like to focus on is getting students on campus the resources they need to follow through on their goals. This in- cludes reforming some of the processes that students need to go through to get involved, taking out unnecessary road blocks, and increasing the means of communications in the school, so students are at the very least informed, and not intimidated by, what they need to in order to be involved. PRESIDENT .1} _ _ , x I" PAOLA ARCE Name: Dalia (Paola) Arce Year in School: Third Year Major: Architecture E-Mail Address: darce@hawk.iit.edu Candidate for: Student Body President How would you best represent the interests of all IIT students in your decision making? I would best represent the interest of all IIT students by being as connected to students across campus as possible. I would love to start a weekly Chat with the President where stu- dents would be welcomed to bring any issues, concerns, ques- tions or suggestions they would have about IIT. I would help create a document stating the IIT STUDENT VISION, where students from across the university would get together to cre- ate such document. The document would outline goals to ac- complish in the future and directions that could help the next generation of students leaders continue to accomplishing them. What issues or goals would you like to tackle and how do you plan to accomplish them? One of my goals is to create a document detailing the IIT Student Vision, what it is, its purposes and the things we as IIT students would like to see for the university. Administra- tion has its own vision for the University, and I believe that as the primary benefactors of IIT we should have our own docu- ment stating what we want to get out of our time at IIT and how to make it happen. The IIT Student Vision would be completely Student lead, while working alongside the administration to make positive changes. For the Students by the Students! CANDIDATE FOR EXECUTIVE VP IIIII MATTHEW OTTEN Name: Matthew Otten Year in School: First Year Major: Physics E-Mail Address: motten@hawk.iit.edu Candidate for: Executive Vice President How would you best represent the interests of all IIT students in your decision making? As Executive Vice President, and leader of the Senate, I would talk to the Senators of each college, who should be rep- resenting the interests of their delegates. Furthermore, I would talk to my personal contacts to develop a clearer image of the interests of the IIT students. What issues or goals would you like to tackle and how do you plan to accomplish them? The main issue I would like to tackle is repeating the same mistakes on projects that have already been tried. To do this, I will first get a list of past exec boards of SGA, contact them, and begin a list of previous projects, their results, and why they succeeded or failed. Next, I will set up a system for current Senators to record their progress and results. This will allow fu- ture Senators to have more successful projects.