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Campus Activities Council is the programming branch of UOSA and responsible for 13 campuswide events each year from this week’s College Bowl to Winter Welcome Week.
With an organizational structure that requires more than 20 students to fill roles on executive council, as event chairs and to reach out to student groups as liaisons, CAC needs a good leader with strong institutional knowledge.
It needs a leader who understands the organization’s structure and can keep their peers on task, stay within event’s budgets and promote innovation while coordinating new events.
Given his background as CAC treasurer and experience as film series event chairman, we believe Greg Emde is the perfect fit for CAC chair.
Emde has been involved with CAC since his freshman year and began by serving on the film series’ publicity committee. Sophomore year, he was selected as film series chairman, and he now serves as CAC treasurer, where he is responsible for coordinating the budgets for all CAC-sponsored events.
Candidates Bridgitte Castorino and Melissa Mock both acknowledged Emde’s experience as a leader within CAC and in an organization that is built on consistency — not radical change. Emde is the best candidate for the job.
His platform is filled with realistic and easily obtainable goals such as hosting workshops to streamline the event-planning process for student organizations, performing internal maintenance for CAC so it continues to run smoothly and to promote involvement with student-group liaisons.
All three candidates serve on CAC’s executive council and they appear to have good rapport. The trio said they would like to continue working with CAC if they are not elected, and we believe whoever wins will have strong allies to work with.
Castorino’s bubbly personality and passion for expanding CAC Crew to increase student involvement in CAC cannot go to waste and Mock’s experience working with the international community and co-programming should be encouraged so all CAC events have elements of diversity.
We believe the CAC chair should be a leader with a vast knowledge of their duties and responsibilities, and Emde — with his past experience in CAC — best exemplifies this idea.
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Pinchfist 1 year, 1 month ago
News media shouldn't endorse politicians. Did you even attend a journalism course?
I know it's only drivel in the Op/Ed but still... this is supposed to be an institution of learning and this is a terrible thing to teach future journalists.
What a failure.
Pinchfist 1 year, 1 month ago
Should I assume that the editorial board is so hard at work vetting candidates that they can't approve a comment? Surely there's been more than one.
Jboydston 1 year, 1 month ago
Actually, nearly all publications endorse candidates. The Oklahoman, Chicago Tribune, New York & L.A. Times are just a few ...
Pinchfist 1 year, 1 month ago
I'm not sure which is more sad, that I've actually checked back throughout the day to see if these would get approved or that it took at least 6 hours to approve the first one. Probably me. I can't believe I even waste my time on this.
SoonerDutch 1 year, 1 month ago
They're probably busy writing op/eds about abortion or why we should/shouldn't believe in a higher power.
Pinchfist 1 year, 1 month ago
Jboydston - I'm aware. Does that make it right?